Working With Reclaimed Wood
Working reclaimed wood is a new gallery guide curated by architect trained wood wizard yoav liberman.
Working with reclaimed wood. Because reclaimed flooring is different and does have its own character it can t always be treated like a typical wood floor. Join the wwgoa community to access a huge library of woodworking instructional videos. Reclaimed wood has lots of features that make it worth bringing into your shop. Reclaimed wood defined simply put a reclaimed wood is an aged wood salvaged to be given a new life and glory when the original piece or structure for which it was used was torn down or destroyed.
For the last two years i have been working on a book dedicated to reclaimed wood and its incredible potential. Reclaimed wood comes in all shapes and sizes and from a variety of places. Buy from a reliable supplier. 6 things to know about working with reclaimed wood sometimes salvaged lumber s best qualities can also be its most infuriating.
Following are some things i ve learned over the years of working with a lot of reclaimed flooring. Released 4th sept 2018 by popular woodworking via f w media it s 160 pages full color and available in hardcover and ebook formats. Working reclaimed wood delves into the different types of reclaimed wood in furniture and art pieces and how that wood can be re purposed into new beautiful and functional pieces. Creating a barnwood accent wall in a room in your house seems like a great idea right.
But finding and working with reclaimed old barn wood and the like is not necessarily the easy way of building things from wood there are certain steps that need to be taken to prep the wood for use to clean it up and to properly join it together where standard edge to edge glue ups are just not an option. Working with reclaimed wood has been pretty popular for a minute or two. Decade and century old barns warehouses and even wine barrels and coal mine boxcars are the common sources of lumber or timber that are retrieved. A guide for woodworkers makers and designers is almost done.
Chris behm cofounder of end grain woodworking in detroit has you.