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Thread: Recycled Timber Furnitre?
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26th April 2005, 05:53 PM #1
Recycled Timber Furnitre?
Hoping that you can give me some help.:confused:
I have been thinking of buying a Recycled Timber dinning suit and was wondering if there is any down sides to having recycled timber furnitre? (apart form the price tag that comes with it):eek:
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26th April 2005, 06:14 PM #2Senior Member
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Not if you can put up with all the nail holes and dings. Why dont you go and cut down a tree and make some new furnitre?
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26th April 2005, 06:18 PM #3
Hi Blondie,
Recycled furniture is made primarily from old structural timbers, so you'll find alot more gum vein, insect holes, checking (cracks) than you would see in virgin furniture timber. Sometimes flooring is used, attached to a man-made substrate, and so nail holes may be evident. These are all usually considered "features" of recycled furniture.
Other than that, if you are happy with the quality of joinery and finish from your supplier, all things should be equal. I deal with a fair bit of recycled gear and I like all the feature, not to mention the density and rich colour of old timbers.
Regards,
Rusty.The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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26th April 2005, 06:21 PM #4
Good idea but some how i think there would seem to be more nail holes then what there should be and more dings aswell.
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26th April 2005, 06:25 PM #5
Thank you Rusty
They said that it was from Oregon timer and was from over seas i too like the look of the nail holes and just that old look and it is all flat pack and they put it all together for you.
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26th April 2005, 06:27 PM #6
Yeah, alot of stuff gets distressed by the furniture maker. I'm getting used to it (do it at work) but when you've just finished flattening and finish sanding a table top it's kind of hard to hit it with a rock.
One gets over it, though...
Rusty.The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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26th April 2005, 06:28 PM #7
My replies are getting out of sync...hope I'm making sense..
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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26th April 2005, 06:31 PM #8
Ummm i been re reading that one trying to work it out :confused:
But dont worry it could just be me.
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26th April 2005, 09:57 PM #9
I use a lot of recycled timber but go to great lengths to avoid all nail holes etc, or try to fill them so they (nearly) disappear. Deliberately distressing a piece is yuppie cr@p. Shows like Shabby Chic are only designed so that interior designers can offload garbage that they've paid bugger-all for at rediculous prices to gullible wannabees. Timber is beautiful stuff, it doesn't need flogging with chains or painting with silver frost or scorching with a blowtorch.
Graeme
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26th April 2005, 10:04 PM #10
Yeah - can't for the life of me figure out why you'd want to pay someone to do what my kids did to our furniture over the years, for free!
IW
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26th April 2005, 10:41 PM #11
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26th April 2005, 11:30 PM #12Deliberately distressing a piece is yuppie cr@p.
Good for hiding ROS swirlies, too... Murder on the wrists, though, especially for us sensitive types...
Rusty.The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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27th April 2005, 01:40 AM #13Originally Posted by graemet
RossRoss"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
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27th April 2005, 01:40 PM #14
Seems to me a conundrum here. :confused:
We have recycled timber being made into furniture. Any furniture maker with an ounce of pride would normally produce a piece that was finely finished and whilst may bear some marks of its past most if not all would be imaginativly filled and would appear as a new piece of furniture with the character and feel of well aged timber with a colour to match.
Recycled furniture made from timber is where I would expect the ding and knocks etc to be used to give the piece that aged well used look.
I suppose I can imagine that there are those that want a piece of the latter classification that has been made from materials from the former. Is that what you were referring to as Yuppie Cr@p?
If so I agree
If not get a couple of weathered old pallets, nail em together and you've got the result you wanted :confused:
Not sure I've solved the conundrum or understood what you are trying to achieve either but that happens with my Norway Blonde tooPerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill
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27th April 2005, 02:01 PM #15
I don't think the downsides of recycled timber furniture are any different to the same item made from first-use timber. If it has been made by someone who knows what they are doing, it wont make any difference.
I have items that have been made from recycled timber but you wouldn't know it. Other items have been left so that there is no doubt the timber is recycled. It depends what you like. Whether you like the rustic look or the classical look, either can be made from recycled timber, first-use timber or a combination of both.
The only caveat is that a lot of the rustic furniture has been thrown together by people who are catering to the Newtown apartment crowd and wouldn't know quality if it was thrown at them."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."