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About five years ago I was in need of a good industrial type compressor for my garage. A friend had what I needed and he needed a coffee table. Requirements that it be heavily stressed. Since his kids,dogs and cats would cause damage. Which they did. We scrounged a room in his basement and found some lumber milled about 80 years ago. Fir I think. 1000002191.jpg1000002176.jpg1000002177.jpg1000002179.jpg
 
I like that. A solid simple piece of furniture showing it's joints.

I had one of those trade-offs many years ago. A neighbour wanted a front door, and I wanted a concrete mixer. I hope the door has lasted as well as the mixer!
 
Mike G said:
I like that. A solid simple piece of furniture showing it's joints.

I had one of those trade-offs many years ago. A neighbour wanted a front door, and I wanted a concrete mixer. I hope the door has lasted as well as the mixer!
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I take it you are still using the mixer. I was given a mixer , used it once on a job and when done with it put it on the road with a for free sign. Guy in pickup truck pulled up and said really! It was an old beat up unit. He only needed it for one job, so I said play it forward to someone who needs it.
 
With left over materials I built a sturdy narrow bench maybe a month later.
Mortise and tenon joinery for the legs and top, with a bit of tarting up below.
Took a ball peen hammer to the end grain for texturing, wanted to try something different.
 
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