Okay, admittedly this is possibly a slightly strange request. I have 5 or 6 old-growth Douglas Fir 4" x 4" (nominal) posts that I originally bought to make an 18th cent style rope bed. For various reasons, the bed is totally out and now I have these posts taking up space. I should mention that I’m generally interested in making late 17th through very early 19th century North American style furniture.
My next option was an English work bench using the laminated Doug Fir as the top, but I hate to use this old timber in a bench. Each of the posts have incredibly tight rings with well over a century of growth in them. Besides, it just makes more sense to build the work bench out of some Borg SYP and call it good.
Any thoughts? Anyone seen some furniture or something useful and interesting for this type of material?