This is brilliant. I see so much wood just discarded in dumpsters. I might start doing this as well. Good to have a nice stockpile of useable wood around.
Years ago I built my son a big L-shaped desk/work-table out of "aged" wood I'd left sitting on the side of the house for a couple of years. Didn't use a planer, but rather sanded it and brought out the "aged" grain. (Nothing like laziness to produce "art".) The table turned out gorgeous and he still has it 10 years later.
BTW - I built that table because we couldn't find a reasonably-priced desk or table which would fit the corner of my son's room anywhere. All of the tables we saw were in the $1000 range (which I think is idiocy). Took me a couple of days to build that table, and my wife gave me all kinds of grief over it at the time, but when she saw the finished product, she shut the fuck up and now lets me build whatever I want.
Old wood doesn't mean bad wood.
Hey that's a nice idea, leaving some of the wood "aged" as you said, or sometimes I've heard it referred to as "distressed". I'm going to try that on one of my next projects. I do need to build some desks. That would make for a really nice surface look.
I made some lovely garden gates out of sun bleached fir. Ran the random orbital sander over it to bring up color on the grain, put it together and then outdoor varnish. Beautiful, loads of compliments, not much work.
It was old structural wood left outside for a year…
The Youtube woodworkers are all saying lately that the sort of "farmhouse" style is really in and profitable right now.
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