Vintage Yardstick Table

These are two counter tops I finished with vintage yardsticks for Red House Global Brand Architects.

Each counter top needed about 130 yardsticks to complete.

The top itself was already made out of maple plywood. 

You can't just glue yardsticks down and call it good because most of them are varying thicknesses.  I had to run them through a drum sander two at a time to mill them all down.  After a few hours and lots of sanding dust, they were all the same thickness.

One finished up. 

See?  I told you I did two of them.

The finished products: 

I try to deliver everything I can in my 1963 Mercury Comet.

No, I'm not joking.  I use it like a pickup truck sometimes.

You know, instead of using the actual truck that is parked next to the Comet.

I make weird decisions sometimes.

For inquiries and questions:

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678-640-3973

http://www.jdrewsilvers.com

-J. Drew Silvers

Metro Atlanta

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Industrial Style Lamp

This is a lamp design I came up with and welded up out of 1" iron pipe, 3" box tubing, and 2" angle iron on a base made of heart pine.

The specs are in my etsy shop, which can be found here.

For inquiries and questions:

drew.silvers@gmail.com

678-640-3973

http://www.jdrewsilvers.com

-J. Drew Silvers

Metro Atlanta

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Reclaim Antique Door Tables

These two doors and heart pine beam sections were bought by a client of mine outside of Greenville, South Carolina.  She wanted one to use as a TV stand and one to use as a patio table.

I had to pull quite a few nails out of the beams.

The top image is the grey heart pine beam.

The second image is after a light sanding.

The final image is after a few hand-waxings.

The lock mechanism was all intact.  I took it apart because I wanted to see it.

I fabricated steel brackets to hold the TV stand together and used reclaim cedar planks for the bottom shelf.  Nothing off the shelf.  I was too busy fabricating to take pictures, but I should have.  Oops.

The patio table was welded together out of 2-1/2" steel box tube since it was going to live outside. 

Painted gloss black and bolted to the bottom.

Simple and practical design. 

For inquiries and questions:

drew.silvers@gmail.com

678-640-3973

http://www.jdrewsilvers.com

-J. Drew Silvers

Metro Atlanta

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Coffee Table and Side Table For Red House Global Brand Architects

Red House Global Brand Architects asked me to build them a coffee table and end table to match the sideboard I built for them earlier this year (which can be seen here).

I was given creative freedom to design and build however I wanted as long as it matched the sideboard.

The goal is to make this brand new basswood look old.

I won't tell you exactly how I did it.

But I'll let you see the pictures.

The color is spot on to the sideboard I built, as well as the textures. 

Then I started cutting up steel.

And I welded up the table frames. The end table is higher than the coffee table by 4".

Completed side table. 

The coffee table is four, individual planks.

One of which I modified to put a piece of antique sheet metal on top of. 

The finished coffee table:

All of my tables in the lobby of Red House, in Alpharetta, Georgia.

For inquiries and questions:

drew.silvers@gmail.com

678-640-3973

http://www.jdrewsilvers.com

-J. Drew Silvers

Metro Atlanta

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Fort Worth Barber Shop Projects

These are two products I designed and built for Forth Worth Barber Shop in Texas.

http://www.forthworthbarbershop.com

Badger Hair Shaving Brushes:

Blanks cut to size out of solid Mahogany

Centered and mounted to the lathe

First example

I hand-duplicated twenty of them.  Here is one in progress.

Finished product.

I also made a display box for them as a bonus for display and safe transport.

Solid Mahogany Mirrors:

This is old-growth Mahogany I sized down and jointed together to make one big blank.

The routing process is messy.

I used a wheeled table so I can rotate it with the router as I move along. 

Ten mirrors sized up.

And sanded.

Final product: 

For inquiries and questions:

drew.silvers@gmail.com

678-640-3973

http://www.jdrewsilvers.com

-J. Drew Silvers

Metro Atlanta

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