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It's finally done (or done enough!) - Freija - 10-21-2024
I finished it! (more or less)
Previous thread with the beginings https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2139
This is not ‘fine furniture”. LOL It is me learning how to do stuff and most will consider it junk.
It can be categorized as farmhouse style, ultra rustic, shabby chic or maybe even faux antique or a vintage reproduction/replica. Whatever it is, is 100% pine and cedar with the later being simple cheap cedar fence pickets that I have run through various degrees of the milling and distressing process and the former being 10” x 6’ pine boards that have been milled, cut and glued together in some places to create 12” shelves and a 16” top.
Even using cheap lumber, materials costs probably run in the ballpark of $400 with around $120 or so just for paint, some of which I didn’t even use and some I have significant leftovers of for future endeavors. I won’t even begin to guess how many hours I have working on this but it was a lot with most of those hours in the scorching Arizona summer heat.
With this being the third actual project other than building shop furniture and doing upgrades, I am still very much in the learning process and have relied heavily on tips and tricks from YouTube woodworkers/makers to learn things I wasn’t sure or didn’t know how to do.
Every tool in my shop, table saw, compound miter saw, jointer, planer, several different routers and multiple sanders along with many hand tools along with hella amounts elbow grease, sweat, tears, cuts, bruises and sore muscles not to mention confusion and being lost at times went into this thing. It is the most complicated and difficult thing I have ever tried to do and while it’s not perfect and a bit rough in places, I am quite pleased with what I have accomplished and will approach my next project with new and better skills and confidence.
Rather than post a bunch of pictures, I put them together in a short video.
RE: It's finally done (or done enough!) - EndtheMadnessNow - 10-21-2024
Wow, my hat off to ya! Goes way beyond my woodworking skills which are zero. I dig the rustic farmhouse look. Good wood choices too!