Wood Gloat. (maybe)

[Jeff Kerr]

Back in March I was at a local auction and I ended up buying a dining room table. Not because I wanted it, but because the auctioneer couldn't get anyone to bid on it and it was slowing down the sale.

I bid $40 thinking that surely someone would pay $50 for a nice table. No one did .

Now I didn't need the table but after I took a closer look I thought maybe the wood could be recycled.

This was the top and the leaves.
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Today I finally got around to milling the top down. I ran it thru my table saw and cut on the glue lines to break it all down. Then I ran the pieces thru my G0453 planer.

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[Jeff Kerr]

And this is what I ended up with.

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Now, I have to admit that one of my weaknesses is being able to ID wood species. I am trying to learn more on this. The table was finished in cherry, I was hoping to find cherry underneath once I planed the boards. You tell me. I think it looks like cherry.

Now what to make.... from these 1" thick boards?

[Dan Drager]

You definately have yourself a nice pile of Cherry. Good score. Make sure you post a pic of it in it's new life as a .......

[Bill Huber]

Nice looking cheap stack of cherry.... now what are you going to build.
It looks like you have enough to make a nice cherry table top

[Mike Cutler]

Nice! What's that saying about one man's trash is another's treaure.

Nice score, and I'll let ya' in a secret. Some of the finest mahagony you can find is in turn of the century factory made furniture from England and the furniture factories in New York at the same time. Ugly furniture, to me at least, beautiful wood.

[dan mahler]

You have an eye for the good stuff! Great buy!

[Dennis Kelly]

It doesn't matter what you build Jeff, because you've taken what would have otherwise been trash and will turn it into something useful. The cherry tree thanks you for that
Congrats on the cheap lumber also!