Furniture & Fittings
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Boot Bench
Recycled Seat
The boot bench sits just inside the front door, in the tile-covered entry area. Muddy or snow-covered shoes and boots come off here. This little, low bench makes it easier.
The seat of the bench is a fragment of weight-lifting bench that I found in my city-alley dumpster.
The two fat logs are joined along facing flat surfaces made by single slices in the bandsaw. I glued them together with embedded brass rods.
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Night Stand
Glue-Lam Top
After two and half years of using cardboard boxes to hold up this piece of glue-lamination (left over from framing of the end walls of the cabin), I decided one day to make some legs and have a proper table. I used my 1" tenon cutters to fit thin aspen twigs to the legs. Then I used my 2" tenon-cutters to fit the legs to the base. I trimmed the leg bottoms to level the table. I sanded and varnished the top. I assembled the parts.
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Free-standing Toilet Paper Holder
Root Hanger
Many years ago I found the delightful "S" twig that forms the key technology of this TP holder. It is a piece of root from a krumholtz pine tree. Krumholtz derives from German, meaning "twisted wood" and describes the stunted but beautiful trees found up at treeline.
This root is perfectly twisted to hold a roll of toilet paper.
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VW Windshield Coffee Table
With Log Legs
I found the VW's flat windshield over thirty years ago. When the subject came up to replace the carboard-box-scrapwood coffee table in the cabin's "living room" I remembered this old found object.
The logs were chosen, fitted and then glued together with small embedded pieces of brass rod. I trimmed and sanded their top and bottom surfaces to make them flat and also equal in height.
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Bathroom Mirror
I made this mirror rapidly, right after the bathroom plumbing was hitched up in the fall of 2004. We still did not have a shower; I had yet to do the tile. But we had a sink and a toilet. What luxury! So we needed a mirror.
Pine twigs on the vertical. Aspen logs on the horizontal.
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Towel Rack
Making pegged racks is fairly easy once you have a tenon cutter and lots of aspen scraps.
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Coat Rack
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Drain Basket Tilt
Because my counter tops are simple varnish birch plywood, I decided to make an effort to get my drain basket to drain directly into the sink. I drilled a set of holes into the drain basket's base. Then I fashioned the tilt device from exterior spruce plank scrap and some aspens from the bandsaw's scrap box.
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Shower Pole and Support
The pole is a standard wood closet pole stained with brown uvGuard and then varnished. The support hardware is my aspen work, varnished.
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