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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Perplexed" data-source="post: 3516836" data-attributes="member: 7157">Finally finished this table for my foyer.  The back splash is reclaimed barn wood, mostly oak, and I’ll hang items on it that you might find in a work shop in the barn.  Old tools, a vintage hand-pumped mini fire extinguisher, a clock from the late 1930s to early 1940s, and a farm calendar from 1945.  The light switch is a turn-of-the-century rotary switch that came out of a stock of military surplus parts, and was sealed in VCI paper dated 1965.  Wonder if the military was still installing these rotary switches half a century later??   The top is made of sycamore from my neighbor’s tree, the frame is 3/4” cast iron pipe, and the body of the cabinet is 1/2” and 3/4” Baltic birch plywood. The trim is alder, and the sliding doors are made of basswood which makes at least five species of wood used in this project.  I used a Lichtenberg burner to impart the squiggly lines on the doors, and I filled them with metallic copper powder from my powder coating supplies, and I melted the powder with a heat gun.  Unfortunately, you have to get up close to see the sparkle.  I turned and aged a small pair of brass knobs for the doors.  The light shades came out of a stash of parts reclaimed from a gas station, so I’m told. They certainly have the patina of age.  Overall, I’m pleased with how the table turned out...[ATTACH=full]192233[/ATTACH]</blockquote>