A tale of two boards...

I have combined wood with a few pieces of furniture that I have built. New wood, from one of the big box stores. Distressed, burned and beaten. All of the tricks used to get a new piece of wood to look old and used. It's easy, inexpensive and looks OK. Just OK. Distressed new wood does not have the look or feel of the real thing. Real old boards. Aged to perfection by time and the elements. Saw marks. Nail holes. Old wood tells that story. The tale of barn builders, rain, wind and snow. It is a story that can not be made up, it is a story that has been earned.

The pictures below show the transition from gray weathered barn board to sanded, waxed, and ready for a new life barn board. Barn board that will soon find it's way into a piece of  Black Falcon Fabrication industrial inspired furniture.