You could do this, just grab that big old tree in the park and whack it up. ;)

Another chance to be off your rocker... as if you needed an invitation.:rolleyes:

That looks wicked comfortable. Tiger maple, I guess?

the wood does look beautiful.

Why settle for a trellis or arbor, when you can have a portal...

It's probably comfortable but just looking at it makes me wants to get the Band-Aids. :eyebrow:

These tables, sometimes with the benches, seem to be a popular item. You'd need a big room or big closed it porch because nobody in their right mind is going to leave that on the patio. I'm also concerned the rough bark edges will run my pantyhose with how short my skirts are.

Woah... those are mindblowing.

Bruce in a mini?

Not without pantyhose, that would be obscene. http://cellar.org/2012/nono.gif

I guess this is for the politician who wants to stump his/her constituents, but realizes they might have to get out of town in a hurry...

Another one of those giant tables. While the shiny finish is good protection it's not my cup of tea.

I also like a thinner finish that lets you feel the wood texture. These french polish finishes take a lot of work too.

Our dining room table is a little discolored from hot pizza boxes being placed directly on it with no hot pad. That steam coming through the cardboard and the heat make the finish a little cloudy. You can be diligent for years and then just forget one time, and the finish gets messed up.

A pizza?!?!

We need your delivery guys around here.

You can fool the ladies and children with a bench and some tools/wood chips on the floor. But if you want to impress the big boys you need... :lol:

Once you make a toolbox that fits all your tools perfectly, you can't get any new tools.

That's what the drawers in the bench are for, you don't actually use the tools in the box. :lol:

Youze guys that drool over slab tables, it's not at hard as you think. It's been mentioned slabs are available in many places, here's one in CA.

Know anything about kiln-dried wood? I've got wood, and a kiln somebody gave us.

I assume the kiln is small, I mean like not big enough for 8' ft planks. Probably the sizes that would fit your kiln would fit in an oven.
Kiln drying requires a low heat and moving air to carry the moisture away. It's much faster than air drying and the time varies with the species. The finish moisture content also depends on what the wood is going to be used for.

If you've got the time you could hammer out some really cool hardware for your kids toy chest. But if you have a kid with a toy chest you probably don't have the time. :lol:

Ya'll can make practical things too, just don't lose your shit when you see somebody dumping Cheetos in one. ;)

Nifty little gift for your gitfiddle playin' friends.

Fancy wood joints.
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That is sweet. Makes me want to quit my job.

Sharpen up your jackknife and you can whittle yourself a chair for the grandchildren to fight over when you're dead. Use the chips to heat a cuppa.

I figure I can season fresh wood, for use as fire wood, by kiln drying it? Good point about the air circulation, though. Not sure how I'd accomplish that.

Sure. You could do that.

Nobody else does that because it makes no economic sense, but firewood is probably entertainment for you instead of a source of heat. Normal economic rules don't apply. Entertainment is frivolous by its very nature.

I actually heat my house with firewood. I have a heat pump, but I try to arrange things so that it never comes on.

I have tons of trees on my property, and a chainsaw, but this doesn't really get me "firewood" until waiting around 2-3 years for it to dry out.

Somebody gave us a kiln, and I wondered, could I jump-start the wood seasoning process? Maybe, I could at least do batches of small branches--those should dry out quicker? The small branches I actually use a lot of, because after the fire box is hot, and I put fresh wood on for the night, I stuff every conceivable airspace inside the box with small bits of wood, until it's a solid block that will burn slowly all night.

The wetter wood smokes too much and leaves too much ash.

this isn't a pottery kiln, is it?

It appears so, yes.

Cool! Make some pottery.

I was going to, but somebody said, "pottery, schmottery" so I decided to grow my bangs out and smoke cloves instead.

Vaping those cloves might be healthier.

Step drawers... or drawer steps.

Another decorated upright example...

Make the kids pick up all the stones in the south forty, then you can build a dry laid firepit.
Maybe rent it out to young skateboarders in the off season. ;)

too relaxed? Add some tension into your life.

And who's going to dust that shit? :crone:

just give a broad strumming and it all vibrates away. do you dust your harp or your guitar?

Give it a strum on one side and it will vibrate the whole thing just enough for the dust to work it's way into the cables all over.

And do you remember what happens when you trip and fall into this thing?
Pepperiage Farms remembers. :shock:

But Pepperidge Farms ain't gonna keep it to Pepperidge Farms' self. Not for nothing. Maybe ya buy a bag o' these Milanos...And maybe Peperidge Farms forgets everything.

They'll still remember how to slice bread, they'll just forget who got sliced on a chair. ;)

Just fucking with you V. The methodology is cool I've tucked that away, I even have much of the material, but that chair is not my cuppa, I can see jackets and socks I toss on there ending up on the floor.

As the earth warms, the icecaps melt, and the land floods, you should have a plan B...

:drool:

Then when your fancy boat is floating across the great wide open, you can amuse yourself by carving some simple utensils.

But, but... you can't even pretend you're going to use those tables for anything...

The wave "tables" make you seasick so you don't care if you have no food. ;)

Lot of work to park your butt when a keg or crate will do. :haha:

Fancy table I guess, or some perverted use the Japs have come up with. :eek:

Perhaps they're not tabletops, but chest lids.

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I have to watch how I slide pages. I was over by about post 140. Been looking from #1. Mighty good work gentlemen[emoji1] .

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Oh yes tie me up, whip me, thrill me, make me write bad checks. :haha:

This looks like it might be a little difficult. :rolleyes:

Keep your chisel sharp :eek2:

That dude would be so offended at the state of my chisels...

I didn't know anyone else was watching Paul Sellers. Good stuff.

Nice idea for a desk but the legs make me nervous...

wondering how it folds up, particularly how to wrap the second leg around the body