Green furniture direct out of the log... let's see your designs!

[Rob D]

A question I often get asked is 'how much do/can/should you charge for a days milling?

 

 

And as usual it's a piece of string type question. There's people doing it for not much and some get a good days money doing it. Prices vary from £160 to £500...

 

 

One way to charge better prices I think would be to offer people a green furniture option - ie. most domestic customers don't want planks but almost anyone can have some outdoor furniture or indoor furniture made green for seasoning in situ...

 

 

A big outside table has got to be worth £300-00+ and so the customer feels they get good value and miller earns enough to make it worthwhile.

 

 

Here's a large ash table and bench I made like this - they are going to let it dry inside (carpet is being replaced!). Really I think you need to offer customers a set design rather than give them a free hand as the legs on this were hard to make and get square... + the bench was added at short notice.

 

They also had a big 8" thick piece left for a coffee table. Camera was low on battery and I was low on energy at the end!

 

 

It's not well joined together as time was running out - but it got me thinking that with set fixings and a set design it could be much better done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TGB]

Nice. I like that idea, as I do the table & bench.

[MattyF]

That looks really nice , did it move much after milling ??

[Rob D]

I'm not sure as only made x3 weeks ago but I expect it will do... prob not too much though.

 

 

But will soon be working on some basic furniture designs and fixings so that people who like to just bolt stuff strongly together can do so on site!

 

 

 

[se7enthdevil]

i notice that you are using the mini mill thing to cut widths, would it not be an idea to get a circular saw as it will go through that in seconds and leave a cleaner cut.

[kinderscout]

A table top I did last week ,out of beech

[agrimog]

a table and chair set from some windblown corsican pine

(overlooks royal troon golf course:001_smile:)

[Philmypower]

Rob, watching your videos it always amazes me what you can do with your alaskan.

Have you considered running alaskan workshops. I have an alaskan and would love to be able to produce something like this.

All the best.

[Rob D]

i notice that you are using the mini mill thing to cut widths, would it not be an idea to get a circular saw as it will go through that in seconds and leave a cleaner cut.

 

 

The idea is to do it just with chainsaw mills as you may not have electricity/big circular saw - the furniture will be pretty rough anyway ie. non planed, also the table top was 3.5" thick so you'd need a pretty heavy duty circular saw...

[Rob D]

Nice work Agrimog and kinder

 

 

I did start to do courses - but then found that was not insured and also really it needs to be done properly ie. an NPTC course written....

 

 

Not got the time at the mo to go through all that but maybe one day!