I recently came across an unusual challenge (for me) on a woodworking project involving reclaimed lumber: two significantly different shades of wood used on the same project. Sometimes, two or more shades of wood are deliberately used in woodwork to achieve contrasting colors for decorative purposes. That was not the case here. I had pulled […]
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Reclaiming Old Wood
I spent last Friday pulling tongue-and-groove pine off an old house that was built sometime in the 1940s. The house had been used by my family as a barn for the last several decades, and the interior wood had a rich, distressed quality. My dad plans to demolish the house this fall, so it […]