Brendan M. salvaged part of his neighbor’s 100 year old white oak tree scheduled for removal. He transformed it into this beautiful bookcase.
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Meet Matthew Holdren: Salvage Wizard and Curbed Young Gun – Young Guns 2014 – Curbed National
“I always think about the journey of this material,” he says over the phone. “I find little engravings or even just the chisel marks of Roman numerals,” left by early American sawmills as assembly instructions.
via Meet Matthew Holdren: Salvage Wizard and Curbed Young Gun – Young Guns 2014 – Curbed National.
Salvage the Trees | eugeneweekly.com
Urban Lumber owner Seth San Filippo cuts a large salvaged tree into slabs. Photo by Todd Cooper.
“As a woodworker looking for quality wood, it’s always hard to find good material,” says San Filippo, who opened Urban Lumber Company in 2006. “I started to see this resource in the urban trees we have around here. And I think it just makes sense. It’s really cool to give these trees a second life, even something that might outlive their first life.”
Bigleaf Maple coffee table at Inn at the 5th. Photo by Trask Bedortha.
Urban Tree to Bicycle Bill Holoway and Mauro Hernandez Masterworks Woodcycles
Masterworks Woodcycles – amazing!
Bill Holloway and Mauro Hernandez of Masterworks Woodworking in San Jose, CA, salvage condemned city trees, then build beautiful bicycles out of them.
Blog post: spotsunknown.com/urban-tree-to-bicycle/ via Urban Tree to Bicycle.
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