you're just so focused. You have to work so hard that it can consume
as much time as you give it. It was nice to say 'no, this Saturday, I'm
going to go home and work on something that I enjoy.' "
What started off as hobby, an antidote to hours of study and
lawyerly abstraction, quickly turned into a second career for Buckner.
Friends began to notice his work and commission pieces. "About
two years ago, a friend of mine, John Davis, told me that his sister
up in Atlanta wanted a farm table, and had been going to different
boutiques and stores, and they were all $1,000 or $2,000," Buckner
said. "Eventually, she just decided that was what it was going to cost,
but John said to her 'what if John and I try to build you one?' So we
went out to (my parent's) house, found some lumber in one of the
stacks, got some suggestions from my dad, and then went to town
on it."
Dining table John created
with items recovered
from a Victorian house
is Barnsville. The legs
are crafted with old pipe
including the valves.
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