Useful Things

An Atlas Spruce on our property died, and after we cut it down we decided to mill it into a simple bench.  The back is held up with rebar.

Garden Trellises are shockingly expensive! They are also often not very attractive.

 
This project gave us an opportunity to learn to use a bender on light-weight easy to manipulate material as well!  It was really fun to play with.
(though given the time we spent and the cost of steel... I suppose I can understand trellis pricing...)

This mallet is made from an Black Oak tree that died in the 2007 fire on Palomar Mountain.  We milled it, and then assembled the mallet.  It is used often in the shop, and holds up surprisingly well to abuse. The lines on the side are remaining chainsaw marks.

This cart now stores blacksmithing equipment.  It might have been faster to just buy a cart, but how many shops can say they have a live-edge cart with wood that was grown on the property?

Ok, maybe this one is stretching the definition of "useful things", but our local lake has such a peculiar shape, we just wanted to see how it did as a table.  Cast concrete base.

This one is really just a raw oak log with a lamp in it, but I like how rustic it looks. Fully fuctional!

Made from plasma cut steel and 4x4s reclaimed from previous art.

This mantle is at Mom's house, and was milled from a cedar tree that died on Palomar Mountain.