This Viewer Project comes from Dustin. Its a beautiful maple dresser made from……baseboards?!?!? He writes:
I wanted to send you a quick note and some pics of my latest project. I built a dresser for my son’s Christmas present this year and hopefully one that will last him for many years. Looking back at the things I have built in this past year, I can immediately notice that the quality of my work has tremendously improved. I actually built this dresser out of maple baseboard trim. I have a friend who ran across about a truckload of baseboards that someone wanted to sell real cheap and one side of them was primed white, but I could see what was underneath…beautiful hard maple. Why a company would make baseboards like this, I will never understand.
Dustin,
That is really beautiful. What an awesome use of “re-claimed” maple!
WHAT???????BASEBOARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????
I’d bet they didn’t know what they did until they had a truck full of it… and since it wasn’t what they meant to do, they scrapped it. Great find. And a great pic of your boys new hideout!
Dustin,
Great use of reclaimed wood. The maple dresser looks great. If I may make a suggestion, I would like to recommend you change the hardware to something simple, but fashioned from your maple wood.
Look through your pictures. The handles presently detract from your fine work.
Steve
WHAT???????BASEBOARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????
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Sorry couldn’t help myself….. again
Yep, a whole truckload of hard maple baseboards, about 5.5” tall by 8′ long and almost 3/4 thick. A woodworking buddy of mine bought them for about $1 each and basically gave them to me in trade for some heavy lifting (helped him move some cabinets to a customers house. I got about 35-40 and most are beautiful after milling them down and cutting of the 1” decorative cut top of the baseboard. I have enough left to make a corner armoire for this coming Christmas. I have about 20 “primed on one side” cherry boards that I also plan to mill down and build something out of.