All Wood Furniture: Hand-Made and Head-Turning

All wood furniture goes beyond your average description for typical furniture. There's not a thing wrong with typical furniture, of course. After all, if there were, it wouldn't be typical, would it! Let's be real.

However! We all know that typical furniture can be fashioned from various metals, plastics, alloys, or stainless steel, to name a few things. Other common building materials for furniture include an interesting array, such as webbing, stuffing, springs, upholstery. Glass, too! Actually, I'm not sure we could form a complete list here.

Suffice it to say, wood has a lot of competition these days. I think it's wonderful that we have so many options available to us. Variety makes the world go 'round. But there is something very special about wood, which probably even preceded all those other things for building. The very fact that all wood furniture is crafted from a versatile, naturally beautiful, characteristically strong, and well loved component increases its value beyond that of the cheaper and more easy-to-come-by elements.


                               AND, another thing....



Most, if not all the wood that Rhonda uses for her furniture is recycled from pallets, old wooden structures, and other types of salvaged wood. Reclaiming the wood from former creations shows a great ethic - conserving what is growing in nature when we can use what we've already gotten from the natural world. Doesn't this scream, win-win? I imagine those woodland creatures (cute or hideous, docile or fierce) would thank us, if they only knew!

What's more to say? Let's see some of Rhonda's homemade, all wood furniture!

Rhonda works a lot with pallet wood, which is commonly oak. We don't need to wonder why oak was chosen for such a position. It's a hardwood that is highly durable and can withstand lots of pressure and rough handling. Perfect for the job!

But here's a fun fact - did you know that an oak tree, when fully mature, can reach a height of almost 150 feet? And to think it came from one of those tiny acorns is mind-boggling. Even more stunning is that an oak tree continues to produce acorns until it's about 700 years old, for a grand total of around 10 million of those babies! After its seed-bearing years, a healthy oak can continue to grow for over another 300 years (I'm sorry...I've just got to insert ONE MORE exclamation point) ! There, I'm done.

I'm sharing a cool video with you below, of two people that I've never met -- Keith Veronesi and Roy Lynch -- who are quarter sawing a log of red oak with a huge bandsaw. (I always wondered how the 2x4's and such that we find at lumber yards and home improvement stores came to be.) Hoping you'll enjoy the recording as well as I did. If nothing else, you'll come away a little more knowledgeable, just from having seen it.  :D


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