Reclaimed Wood Trestle Table

 Over the past 18 months Brett has been in and out of many old barns in the area taking out large beams of wood.  I posted last year some pictures of his finds, but now I can show what this beautiful wood has turned into.  

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Here he is working on the center of our new table - this was a huge beam of quarter sawn White Oak that is about 300-350 years old.   It had origionally been used as a wood workers workbench in a barn that was erected 1849.  He built a router sled to plane it.  American Chestnut beams were used as sideboards and breadboards to trim out the table. Also the pedestals and stretcher board were made with this same wood.

Finally, the finished product was brought into our home.  It weighs about 400 pounds.  The table top is 3 inches thick with a length of 86 inches and width of 34 inches.  

As soon as my table was finished he started on one for my parents, 

for their 40th Anniversary that they celebrated this month. 

This is the barn that their beams, all American Chestnut, were retrieved from.  

This table design used 5 boards for the width which were trimmed out with breadboards.  

Here is the table before it was crated and mailed to Atlanta - it made our house smell like a wood shop - such a wonderful natural smell.