Hair-Pin Table Legs

Sears Trostel carries a variety of General Finishes coating products to protect and enhance the live-edge wood, or for a more smooth and flat table top, we offer Epoxy-Filling services.

Epoxy is added to fill, strengthen and enhance natural characteristics in the wood. A clear top-coat finish should then be applied over the whole slab.

Epoxy-Filling
 

Live-edge wood slabs make beautiful shelves and mantels. Mounting is simplified with Steel Shelf & Mantel Brackets in 17, 33 and 52 inch sizes. We  also offer boring and routing services to fit the wood perfectly to the bracket and flush with the wall.
 

Steel Shelf & Mantel Mounting Brackets, Boring & Routing Services


Looking for a door that makes a statement? A live-edge wood sliding barn door may be the solution!
 

The Shop Fox 5 pc. Professional Woodworking Kit is beautifully crafted with matching rosewood and brass accents and has all the essentials for producing the best work. This set includes a 9" smoothing plane, 6" block plane, 9" try square, 9" marking gauge, 9" bevel gauge and a fitted wooden case. $158.00


The Kreg Mobile Project Center makes any place a workspace. It's a workbench, sawhorse, assembly table, and clamping station all in one — versatile for DIY, repair, and woodworking projects. Easy to set up and store away, it provides a sturdy platform for all kinds of project tasks. It includes $40 worth of bonus clamping accessories, so it’s ready to go to work, right out of the box. $159.99


The Kreg Jig R3 is the home improver’s solution for building with wood. Use it to build bookcases, shelves, custom built-ins, and countless other home improvement projects. During this Father’s Day promotion, purchase the Kreg Jig R3 and receive a FREE 2” Kreg Classic Face Clamp ($14.99 value). Special kit price is $39.00.


If you would prefer to let Dad shop for his own perfect gift, then the Sears Trostel Gift Card is a great choice! Choose any denomination.



Come to our Riverside store to check out all of these gift ideas, or find a variety of other options.

Happy Father's Day!

 

Custom Box Mantels created at Sears Trostel

Reclaimed Weathered Wood


Red Oak w/chamfered edge, unfinished

 

Bob may have greeted you at the front dest at our Riverside location when he first arrived a year-and-a-half ago, but now he feels at home in our custom shop, as he works with contractors and retail customers on their wood-related projects.

 

Returning to Colorado with his wife Kim after 18 years, he was happy to find a place similar to the woodworking supply store he came from in Portland, OR. “Everything fell into place and I feel really fortunate,” Bob says. “I really like Sears Trostel because I like being part of a community and a company that’s involved in the community.”

 

Bob's work on a Custom Box Mantel

As the custom shop assistant, Bob is here to cut, mill, sand, plane, route, glue, work on intricate projects like custom arch casings and mouldings — or to be available to pick his brain. He enjoys sharing his 20 years of professional woodworking experience with those that come to the shop. “I can work with a wide variety of customers, whether it’s the beginner or the advanced, or anywhere in between,” he says.

He particularly likes working with customers to create custom box mantels — one of our newest products — and wood countertops. In between customer projects, he creates cutting boards throughout the year for our annual Bread N Boards fundraising event in December to benefit the Food Bank for Larimer County.

 

Even in his free time, you’ll find Bob woodworking. He enjoys making wood clocks and jewelry to give as gifts, but has also recently completed a project for himself. 

 

“I just finished my music room, man cave,” he chuckles. “It’s kind of a showpiece of all the stuff we’re selling right now.” He trimmed-out the room with beetle-kill pine, and used live-edge wood to make shelves, a countertop, an end table and bistro table.

 

 

You might think that woodworking consumes all of Bob’s life, but it actually doesn’t. 

 

Bob playing with The T-Band at Bread N Boards 2016

 

 

 

He grew up playing classical piano, and took up the guitar in high school.  “Then I got a mandolin, and the mandolin just kind of took over,” he says fondly. “I love the sound of it and you can play it in all different genres of music.”  He has even made a custom wood case to carry the instrument. You’ll find him and his mandolin playing bluegrass music with The T-Band at Avogadros Number in Fort Collins, and at private parties during the summer. 

 

Bob's mandolin and custom case

He also enjoys playing at various jam sessions around town. “It’s kind of like woodworking. There are beginners and there are pros and everything in between, and everybody’s willing to share with each other what they know and what they can learn. It’s fun!”