| Where ever you may live or what ever you do as | | | | I then gather them all and take them to the wood |
| your major occupation you will definitely need furniture, | | | | workshop to be disembarked upon with a knife and |
| although it may not necessarily be a knotty pine desk | | | | leave to dry for three weeks in a warm climate that is |
| but what so ever type it is, it is still furniture. We sit on | | | | dry. The top of the desk is bought from the |
| a chair, behind a desk, we eat dinner at the dinning | | | | lumberyard. |
| table, at the office, and we put our files and folders in | | | | While working at the wood workshop, I mill the pine |
| cabinet, and so on. The use of furniture in our day to | | | | roughly with my thickness planner and jointer, and then |
| day life can not be over emphasized. There are | | | | glue the pine desk top boards together. T-nuts and |
| various types and styles of furniture. But we are going | | | | hanger bolts are the hardware I use for the joinery |
| to focus on only one. | | | | process. I do this by inserting the hanger bolt into the |
| If you have ever strolled with your dog to the woods | | | | legs that are dry and cut to the specific height. The |
| or even hiked a mountain trail, you would have come | | | | final step is to fix the screws in same level to the legs |
| across trees, both big and small, their branches, sticks, | | | | in order to avoid uneven floor. |
| logs, as well as various species of plants. This is a | | | | Pine is classified as softwood sourced from evergreen |
| typical scene where I harvest stretchers, table legs | | | | tree. This makes it pliable. It is easily created and has a |
| and supporting braces for my knotty pine desk | | | | low maintenance demand. Adding the knotty finish, it |
| creation. | | | | comes out well in desk and bedroom furniture. People |
| To create this kind of furniture, I walk into the forest, | | | | who are particular about the uniformity in their knotty |
| well armed with my measuring tape, specific | | | | pine desk finishing, can find pieces they desire and this |
| dimensions, hand saw, pocket knife and of course vivid | | | | comes in already painted form. |
| imagination! Around me, specifically by my right hand | | | | While a pine desk may come, not so expensive, it |
| side is this funny shaped maple tree, looking at my left | | | | should in all wisdom be handled with care because it |
| side I see this 4 inch thick pine trees all uniquely placed | | | | could easily get scratched or dented. Having a well built |
| in a spot. | | | | knotty pine desk in your office or wherever affords a |
| They look quite young in great shapes. I envisage | | | | cozy ambiance to the room it is placed. It produces a |
| cutting down all the 8 trees at the same time but I | | | | natural pine aroma. For the environmentally aware, you |
| soon changed my mind considering the fact that taking | | | | can renew your pine desk furniture when you are tired |
| such action would amount to killing the trees' root | | | | of it as it is renewable and it's also classified as a |
| system. So I go for just 4. As I am doing this, I am as | | | | carbon neutral product. |
| well pruning their branches to remove the thin covering. | | | | |