I've finally started on the armoire I've been planning for much too long. I've got a pretty good idea of how it will fit together using japanese-inspired joiney. I'm using old 2x4s salvaged from houses under renovation. My estimate is that the beams are around 80 - 100 yrs old, based on the nails that were in them and the houses they came out of. Right now I'm still in the process of planing them smooth. Turning them from:
I recently finished building a TV stand out of 1x4s from dismantled shipping pallets and other scrap wood. It's been left as bare wood for now. Might get around to finishing it with clearcoat or tung oil later on.
For the shelves and side panels, I used hand planes to tongue and groove the boards and glued them together. Those glued panels were then assembled using mortise and tenon and dovetail joints and no glue or nails. It's a little rough around the edges, but the joinery worked well enough that it's solid, which was the main thing I wanted to accomplish on this project.
