The Bullet Stool.

 Here's one piece I won't be able to replicate. This is a black locust and cedar stool that's just a bit under bar stool height, (24"). The seat plate is a section I cut from a large locust that stood along one side of the driveway.
The tree had been dead standing for years. It's had to know how long, because black locust is nearly indestructible. There are logs that I know have been laying on the ground for thirty years out in the woods that haven't even begun to rot. The bark comes off but the wood just gets darker.
Anyway, I cut it for firewood last winter, and I thought I'd save some of it for stools. On the third pass through the log, I saw a bright spot of shiny silver metal in the wood.
 I began cursing.
I thought I'd cut through a piece of old fence or rod that the tree had grown around. That ruins chainsaw chains and they aren't cheap if you use the good ones.
It didn't make sense though. The section I cut through was at least 15' from the ground when the tree was standing. So it wasn't likely to have been a fence.

 I gave the metal a press with my thumbnail and it dented easily. It wasn't iron, it was lead. I had cut through a bullet that had been in that tree for who knows how long. What are the chances of cutting through a forty foot log at exactly the right spot to hit a bullet embedded in the wood?

The photo right above shows the bullet in the stool seat. It looks like maybe a .38 or so.

The seat I rubbed with walnut husk, cause I like it. The legs I left natural cedar. Three coats of finish after. The locust was very old and dry. It sucked up a lot of urethane.

Red and White Salvaged Oak Coffee Table.

 This coffee table is made completely from oak I salvaged from shipping crates. It's good stuff with a lot of character. It's got knots and nail holes and saw marks and dings and cracks and all sorts of visually interesting points.

 The legs came from crates constructed to hold farm implements in shipping. Plows, rotatory tillers, that sort of thing. None of this was finish cut, so its full thickness. The planks that make up the top are an inch thick.

The table measures 24" by 48", and 18" tall. Also, it weights a frick'en ton.  I didn't think about how much this amount of oak would weigh once it was all screwed and glued together. You don't want to run into this thing on your way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

 Here you can see the rays in the white oak leg. You only get this sort of pattern if the wood is cut at the right angle. Cutting wood for shipping crates doesn't result in this on purpose. Here it's just a happy accident. Originally, of course, this was rough cut and the pattern wasn't obvious if you didn't know to look for it.

I ground down the unevenness and marks from the saw teeth with an angle grinder. You could run it through a power planer and make it perfectly flat if you wanted that. I don't want that. Dead flat surfaces and perfect angles don't keep your eye. I'll make tight joints for strength and durability, but I want a hand made item to look hand made.

 There is no commercial stain on this table. All the color comes from the juice of green husks of Black Walnuts. I have the fingers to prove it. I really haven't found a commercial stain that compares to walnut juice for depth of color. It penetrates into the wood, and depending upon the species, brings up a gold to near black that just draws the eye.

Here's the table drying in the sun after the final finish coat. I'll usually put on three coats of finish. Allowing it to dry between coats and then sanding each one to get that glassy surface that still allows you to feel the wood grain. The oak, especially the white, however, is so hard that it doesn't pull in much finish. Because of this, I only used two coats on the table.
I'm not completely done with this one yet. I have to take a hair off two of the legs and then put low profile feet on all four of them. All the legs are exactly the same length, but because the top is not dead flat, but has high and low areas, I'll have to adjust for them.

Walnut and Cedar short stool.

 New stuff!  Walnut top with cedar legs on this chair height stool. No stain on this one. Only satin polyurethane, (two coats), as a finish.

The top picture was taken outdoors, in shade. The bottom in direct sunlight.

The seat is about 18" from the ground. Standard chair seat height, give or take.

I'm going to do several sets of stools for my wife to take to the craft fairs. The drought of the last couple years seems to have killed most of the small cedars out in the woods, so I have lots of material for the legs. The larger cedars, especially the ones that I pruned up the trunk, seem to be surviving alright. They do have some indications of stress however, so I'm going to keep an eye on them.