Foundling Furniture

The large flowers on each side are far less exciting / fanciful than on the source panels. Not sure yet that I really understand what is going on in the originals, not how I would recreate something like it without tracing a pattern on the wood (as opposed to mostly freehand composition with just layout guides.)

The red oak I am using is a part of a panel I found at a flea market a few years ago.

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Updated to add: sewing machine has been claimed. Thanks, everyone.

Local to Hamilton people -- please help me find a home for this solidly built vintage Kenmore sewing machine! The light and seeing needle run and there are many accessories included (eg buttonhole foot, hemming foot, etc).

The body could use a dusting, but, otherwise probably ready to go.

Help me find a second life for this vintage machine?

Good news! is a great guy, who will do his best to honour this legacy piece. Based on a quick look, he figures if could date to the 1890s!

It's hard not to feel discouraged. There is so much reclaimable material, and, as a society, we are so unprepared (still) to sort and retrieve usable stuff.

I struggle not to feel overwhelmed.

Argh. Still at Ashley and Wilson. This was perfectly restorable until someone stole the drawer and it sat in yesterday's rain. Now .... against all reason, I think I am going to take it. There's lots of beautiful birch in there.

Sorry everyone who loves vintage -- I will try to use the doors and other key pieces intact in something; but, overall, I will be reusing the pieces not trying to remake the drawer.

Still better than letting it rot here, I think?

or I can bring it to you.

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Elm in North America / Turtle Island was largely killed off because of imported disease (Dutch elm disease) during 1950s and 60s. You don't see much elm lumber now for this reason. Every so often, I am lucky to salvage some. This is slippery elm, one of the soft elms.

Slippery elm is a soft elm. One way to distinguish it from other elm lumber is to look at a sample under black light. Parts of it will glow a dull yellowish green. #WoodThatWasRaisedInABarn #reclaimed, #reuse, #SustainableDesign, #ReclaimedWood, #ReclaimedWoodFurniture #upcycle, #Upcycling #TrashToTreasure, #environmentallyConscious, #EnvironmentallyFriendly, #woodworking, #woodworkersofinstagram #woodfurniture, #woodworkingisfun, #handtools, #supportindiemakers #HamOnt, #HamOntMakers, #HamOntWoodworking, #HamOntWoodworkers #WhatWeThrowAway

Fun fact: you can use your hand drill with a smaller twist drill bit to bore small holes in steel. For delicate work, it prevents overheating and the bit skipping across the surface quite so readily.

Punch making went so well yesterday, I have decided to branch out from simply using a hacksaw on the metal rod.

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