Original Barn in New Prague, MN Interior of Barn Beams Getting Delivered Beams in Storage Mantel After Cutting Working The Corbels At the Blacksmith Finished Piece Have you ever seen a fireplace mantel made from an old barn beam? It's pretty amazing! We start out with gray, sometimes rotting beams...
I had a customer from Texas call the other day and asked for a reclaimed wood conference room table with a nautical theme. I chuckle a bit and ask him, "were you talking with my customer down in Florida?" He replies, "No, should have I?" In nearly 15 years, we've...
While this table is perhaps not as dramatic as many of the tables that we've done in the past, it does, nonetheless have some wonderful features. Most importantly, our customer came to us with a pile of wood from an old family barn. It is always wonderful to use barnwood...
Whenever we take down a log cabin, it seems that the walls are covered in newspapers. It was some sort of insulation to keep the winds out. I'm not sure if it was viewed as primitive wallpaper, or if it was strictly functional. We are currently taking down a log...
This is an incredible little gem of a fireplace mantel. On very rare occasion, we find cherry wood pieces in a barn. This was one of those great rare times. However, we only found two little short pieces. So, we joined them together with a ‘scarf joint’ just like they...
We have been working on this cantilever table for quite some time. It is really a combination of two different tables that we completed in the past. The curved base was originally done for a large Edina, Minnesota conference room and general cantilever style was done for a company on the East...
This was a fun project. We gathered some bleacher wood from LeSueur - Henderson, Minnesota High School. The bleachers were installed in the old gym in about the 1950's or 60's. The wood appears to be a Southern Yellow Pine. The neat thing about the bleachers is that the boards...
Creating great tables like this is why I love this business. Almost 7 years ago, I ran into Doug Lockhart on the Web while looking for someone to craft bridge style ironwork. He sketched out a table way back then that would later become the basis for this design. Finally, many...
We've had so many nice projects going through the shop lately, it's hard to pick just one to show off a bit. However, this coffee table is a really, really nice piece. Visiting customers have been very impressed with this one. The top of this table was made using sill beams...
I absolutely love this mantel and fireplace. The jagged stonework with great character sets the foundation. The mantel itself is pair of 6in x 8in x 92in hand hewn timbers that came from a granary near Glencoe, Minnesota. These timbers we very unusual in that they were hewn into rectangular,...
