After receiving some turn of the century 2×4s reclaimed from a tobacco barn I decided to build a mantel. It’s always nice to get ahold of some old lumber, and especially when those pieces are aged and tobacco stained studs that are the legit 2 inches by 4 inches. Beautiful! Instead of planing the heck out of each piece, I wanted to see how little of the aged surface I could remove. All I treated the joined pieces with was a satin sheen lacquer. I also reused some of the original nails the I removed from the 2×4s at the corner joints.
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[...] kind of traditional/modern hybrid design. Using some of the old heart pine 2×4’s from some of my other recent projects for the cabinet tops and a chunky style of floating or ‘bracketless’ shelving I think [...]
[...] you want a more full description of what went into the project, you can just check out the first mantel I made of this [...]