Cast iron based round table

This gorgeous round table with a floral crown pattern heat transferred into the wood. 

The three flowing shaped legs are the perfect complement to the beautiful pattern on the top. 

Farm style console table with storage

Farm style console table with storage.

We were commissioned to build this console table with storage for a customer.

In the customers home, ready for Christmas.

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Country chic kitchen table

Country chic kitchen table 

This garage sale find got the full treatment, striped down top and legs. Added vintage Farm Fresh Eggs image, stained and polyurethane on top. The legs got sanded and painted antique white, lite distress and finish sanded, then waxed. What a difference alittle  alot of work makes.

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Butcher Block top desk

Butcher Block top desk with image from the Graphic fairy. The antique carved bulbous legs balance the heft of the butcher block top to create a beautiful balance  

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Aluminum table with tractor image

Vintage aluminum table with butcher block top, with antique tractor image on top.

The perfect table for the man cave, and guys poker night. 

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Table top wall clock

large wall clock made from table top

Recipe for awesome clock: 

1 solid wood 41" table top 

5 vintage aluminum numbers 

1 vintage Indian motorcycle image 

1 large set of clock hands and drive 

1st step find the center of circle and drill hole for clock. Next use heat transfer tool and add the image of vintage Indian motorcycle. Seal wood and image with polyurethane. Then attach the numbers and add the clock mechanism and enjoy. 

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Butcher block kitchen chicken table

"Farm fresh eggs" chicken image on round butcher block kitchen table.

We took a plain and boring butcher block top table and gave it the perfect touches for a table that you would lobe in your kitchen. The top was stripped to bare wood and we added the great chicken farm fresh eggs image via heat transfer. The base is painted with antique white, distressed ans then sealed with a mahogany wax .

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Table Time

Tables, tables , tables. We do a lot of tables, because we want to make things that are visually pleasing and functional. Below are a few of our newest creations.

Vintage Singer treadle base fitted with wooden top, with heat transfer image of sewing machine with the saying "sewing mends the soul" .

Butcher block kitchen table with Farm fresh milk cow image heat transfer. 

vintage industrial butcher block workbench top,with original patina that tells the story of many jobs well done. Turned into coffee table with pipe legs.

Industrial butcher block turned into coffee table with great pipe legs.

Vintage Duncan Phyfe style drop leaf table refinished 

Beautiful Victorian era Eastlake style with ball and stick accents.  We cleaned and rubbed on this one and it is perfect as is. 

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Awesome Custom Bar

This is one of the rare times that you get to do what you love for customers that share the same vision (or are willing to trust your vision).

 So this is the email that we received from Allison and Kate, Message : We've seen some of your work and really like your use of reclaimed materials. We have a couple of pieces of furniture we are looking for (a bar cabinet and media stand). After some emails back and forth, they wanted to come buy and see if they could find something that spoke to them. We were given full creative licence to make what we thought would fit their vision. 

So, we started on the bar. The biggest issue is the space restrictions that we had to work with 15" x 34.5" with 9 foot ceilings. So we knew that we needed to go vertical. They asked for wine bottle storage and an enclosed area for the glass ware. We settled on an old footlocker for the glass ware storage and a reclaimed barn beam for the spine and a butcher block top for the shelf. Everything else was up in the air and would need to be found. And as luck would have it, we were able to find some vintage crates in all different sizes and shapes that would complete the vision. 

a few of the pieces, that would go to create the bar 

  and this is the finished bar 

let me point out the features. The upper left, is a picture of the dual USB ports that we added, with the night light with three adjustable brightness settings located under the top wine rack inside the upright crate. The foot locker was cut in the front and fitted with a custom made window. the interior has a map of the great state of Texas decoupaged to all the walls, a wine glass rack on the top with 2 shelves, lit with led strips with remote on/off and modes. The exterior has the vintage travel labels added to give it the look of world travel. The bar sign is made of wine bottle corks mounted on a cut down vintage expanded metal door. The smaller create has a heat transfer with Allison & Kate's names to create a wine label. There are also vintage travel labels behind another expanded metal door piece. 

Kate & Allison were thrilled with the finished product. Here is what they had to say " We made good use of the bar cabinet yesterday for our Memorial Day cookout. We are definitely the envy of the neighborhood ;)" 

So, off to finish the media cart, and we will be posting pictures as soon as that is done. 

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Kitchen Island or Coffee Bar ?

This is one of those awesome times when you get to see your creation connect with a customer. 

Well it might be better to let them do the talking. Here is a text that we got this morning from a great couple that recently purchased one of our pieces a few weeks ago. 

Here is a photo of our Kitchen Island transformed to a Coffee Bar. We have been so happy with your design that we are now remodeling our kitchen to match the Coffee bar. I have posted this on my Facebook page and have had a great response to your work. Thanks again and looking forward to seeing more creative offerings from 3 Spurz. 

Jeff & Debby

This is the before and after picture of the kitchen island 

Jeff & Debby feel in love with the island, but they were looking for a coffee bar and the overhang in the back would not allow it to fit in the space that they had planed for the coffee bar.So to fix the issue we had Ken @ D&S Antiques remove the top on cut off the overhang so it would fit and now they are using that piece as a back splash for the coffee bar. I love it when everything works.

We look forward to being able to show more of our creations in their new homes in the future.

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How to Heat Transfer onto Furniture

We will be showing you step by step the way we paint and heat transfer our furniture.

We found this beautiful coffee table at a garage sale perfect for the heat transfer.

First we did was take it apart for a better sanding, this is optional.

We use 150 grit sand paper, also 220 grit sand paper for that smooth finish.

Ones I cleaned the piece with a damp cloth I proceed to paint a Turquoise color, and then distress with 220 grit sand paper to give it that aged look and that smoothness.

Then I proceed to stain and wax with Howard Citrus-Shield Mahogany Premium Paste Wax it is a two in one product, which I like.

(Note: The other option is using stain and Minwax Paste Finishing Wax to seal it).

Heat transfer onto wood tops

First thing I do, I go to my favorite vintage image website The Graphic Fairy to choose my images.

(Note: The image needs to be mirror image to do the transfer, you can use Microsoft Paint for it).

Using Microsoft paint I have scale the image onto pages

(Go to page setup then onto scaling you can choose Fit to by pages)

I then print the vintage image using a laser printer.

Chocolat Paris image from The Graphic Fairy

Rose Engravings – Godey’s image from The Graphic Fairy

Then I trace the lines using a ruler and a pencil  make sure they are straight, then cutout with scissors.

Ones I have the image together I proceed to tape it with Scotch Blue painters tape, cutting small pieces of it making sure I don't tape over the image. 

Then I centered the image taping the edges of the paper as you can see below,this will prevent the heat from separate my image.

I get my heat transfer tool using the pattern transfer tip.

 (I use Weller it's a 15-piece wood burning and hobby kit).

I then began to heat my image in a circulation motion lifting the paper to make sure it's transferring right, it takes time but believe me it's worth it.

Below is the transfer of the images.

I then stain the wood using Early American 230; also I gave it 3 coats of polyurethane to seal it. 

Ones it's dry I use P1500 sand paper using a little bit of water to smooth the top.

And here is the final product.

Before and after pic.

                                  Below I am posting other heat transfer projects we have done.

One of our projects was featured at The Graphic Fairy it was this Pig heat transferred on wood top. The graphic fairy is the best site for vintage images and one of our favorite stops. So you can imagine how proud we were when they chose our project to be featured on the site. "Some Pig"