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Posted: 7/1/2024 2:05:52 PM EDT
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3X3 walnut box and lid. Left over piece from the calabash bowl.
Ax paste and carnauba wax finish.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/4/2024 3:53:55 PM EDT
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The softest most rotten chunk of maple I had! Only piece big enough for what I wanted to do. Started turning at 6 high 12 around and ended up with 5 high and 10 round. Two coats of resin mixed with alcohol to make it firm up enough to finish. Ice pick penetrated all the way in on one side of the piece! I put my finger thru it in one spot before it flew off.
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Posted: 7/4/2024 3:57:27 PM EDT
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I also had an order for 3 magic wands for young boys. Maple and apple.
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Posted: 7/7/2024 6:55:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: I also had an order for 3 magic wands for young boys. Maple and apple. Still need glue up and sanding. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_8694_jpg-3258204.JPG I am jealous how much time you have in the shop. Perhaps one day, soon I hope, I can enjoy hours upon hours just making things. 
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Posted: 7/7/2024 8:02:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ropwoo: I am jealous how much time you have in the shop. Perhaps one day, soon I hope, I can enjoy hours upon hours just making things. 45 or more years of working. Sometime two jobs. Retirement is wonderful! |
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Posted: 7/7/2024 9:12:25 PM EDT
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I would really like to move on to something else - but all my friends seem to want me to make these simple charcuterie boards and matching dipping trays, oh well...
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Posted: 7/10/2024 10:34:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/10/2024 10:40:06 AM EDT
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Was also practicing on a chunk of spruce. Dyed with black ink diluted with alcohol and finished with abrasive paste and bee's wax.
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Posted: 7/10/2024 10:44:38 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/10/2024 10:55:35 AM EDT
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Trying to repair a totally rotten wagon wheel today. Got the spokes almost done. Need to figure out how to make a new outer wood part that fits the steel hoop and the spokes. Fun with wood!
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Posted: 7/10/2024 10:56:44 AM EDT
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Can you tell it's been raining or to humid to do anything outside? Lol!
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Posted: 7/10/2024 8:21:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: Can you tell it's been raining or to humid to do anything outside? Lol! Right? I was vacation till Sunday so I haven't had shop time in 2 weeks or so. Craft show season has been pretty good for me this year so I'm going to have to suck it up and get cracking in the shop. 
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Posted: 7/17/2024 6:48:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/17/2024 6:54:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: Couple of small birch projects with bocote and walnut finials. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_8763_jpg-3269675.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_8771_jpg-3269676.JPG |
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Posted: 7/17/2024 7:01:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MrSig239]
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I use many different ones. Mostly shellac sealer with ax abrasive paste and carnauba wax. I also use just walnut oil on things that might be used with food.
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Posted: 7/18/2024 5:13:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/19/2024 2:32:48 PM EDT
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I think I got a little carried away with boxes lately! There's more I gave away already too!
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Posted: 7/21/2024 5:43:34 PM EDT
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The friends I got the apple wood from recently lost their 7 year old pet turkey. They gave me some of his feathers and asked if I could make something to remember him by. Apple and cedar with walnut oil finish.
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Posted: 7/21/2024 6:54:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: I think I got a little carried away with boxes lately! There's more I gave away already too! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_8804_jpg-3271154.JPG Too cool man, you have serious skills, I have seen some of these photos on another forum we're both members of.  So, about those magic wands, my wife is a huge Harry Potter fan and her birthday is coming up in November, how crazy can you go making one? PM me if interested, i'd be happy to pay good money for something super cool and exotic. |
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Posted: 7/21/2024 7:08:47 PM EDT
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Antique brass owl bookmarks with turned cabochons. The one on the right is purple dyed and stabilized maple burl, and the two in the left are the last of the oak I had from Christ Curch College in Oxford England. This wood is from the location where the Great Hall scenes from the Harry Potter films were shot.
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Posted: 7/23/2024 4:55:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dragynn: Too cool man, you have serious skills, I have seen some of these photos on another forum we're both members of. So, about those magic wands, my wife is a huge Harry Potter fan and her birthday is coming up in November, how crazy can you go making one? PM me if interested, i'd be happy to pay good money for something super cool and exotic. PM sent. I have a wand from the show I've been working on. Might be something your interested in. |
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Posted: 7/23/2024 5:21:12 PM EDT
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So many wows from the wife over her anniversary present I made for her I lost count! I think she liked it.
Rock maple with ax abrasive paste and carnauba wax.  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/26/2024 1:15:12 PM EDT
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Apple and walnut are such a nice combo!
Shot glass 9 high 3 wide at the base. 1 1/2 cup with 1/16 sidewalls. Stem measures 3/16 thick. Nerve racking till the end!  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/29/2024 10:12:11 AM EDT
[Last Edit: MrSig239]
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Colorized maple and padauk wand turned off axis for some of it.
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Posted: 8/2/2024 4:51:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/5/2024 5:48:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: So hot out today I had to make my own hat!! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_8974_jpg-3283776.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_8976_jpg-3283777.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/IMG_8978_jpg-3283780.JPG 
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Posted: 8/6/2024 6:54:52 PM EDT
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Both of these were hanging in a bathroom for the last 30 or 40 years! They were covered in rust and flaking paint!
Cleaned them up over the last few days and now they look like new. Wish I would have grabbed before pics. New color scheme will match the rest better now.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 8/9/2024 2:05:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MrSig239]
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Odd shaped apple burl I've had for quite a while. 2 1/2 X 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 high. Purple heart finial.
Finished with walnut oil. Would make a good engagement ring holder as there's room for a name and short phrase..  Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 8/12/2024 5:42:12 PM EDT
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Had just enough left over maple to make a gold fish urn and the bottom of a mini box. Will make a lid later. They measure about 1 1/2 x 1 1/2.
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Posted: 8/16/2024 6:00:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MrSig239]
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Inspired by Lost in Space.
5 inch maple spaceship finished with ink color and gloss clear enamel. Ship is hollow inside and comes apart. I would like to add led's inside if I can find some. Stand made from maple with black spray paint.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 8/29/2024 4:37:59 PM EDT
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Latest project is getting all my wood onto pallets and accessible. Hopefully will keep the bugs away too!
Started with this:  Attached FileHalf way thru it now looks like this:  Attached FileAlso, Today I received a 20 lb. box of cut offs for 9.99! from exotic wood zone. More projects to come.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/1/2024 5:28:31 AM EDT
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Apple base and trumpet. Beech, maple and walnut glue up. Brazilian rose wood for the spindle. Finished with one coat of walnut oil for now.
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Posted: 9/1/2024 2:51:55 PM EDT
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Finally getting some shop time now that it's not 3 degrees cooler than the surface of the sun out there....
Lighter in pink dyed and stabilized box elder burl.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/1/2024 4:14:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zombievt: Finally getting some shop time now that it's not 3 degrees cooler than the surface of the sun out there.... Lighter in pink dyed and stabilized box elder burl. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/23848/457406836_827143296075043_31561888499223-3310695.JPG |
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Posted: 9/1/2024 10:20:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ropwoo: Awesome, I would buy that! Not that I smoke, lol. They're pretty popular sellers for me. I managed to squeak out another one today.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/3/2024 2:38:57 PM EDT
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Been a while since I did string work. Glued up some apple and walnut and turned a bead.
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Posted: 9/3/2024 3:10:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By zombievt: Finally getting some shop time now that it's not 3 degrees cooler than the surface of the sun out there.... Lighter in pink dyed and stabilized box elder burl. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/23848/457406836_827143296075043_31561888499223-3310695.JPG Those are cool. Where do you get the kits? I've done single cigar tubes with the built in hygrometer/humidor for friends. This would go well in matching wood and maybe use up some scraps. |
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Posted: 9/4/2024 5:08:26 PM EDT
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My great nephew coaches youth football and has won 4 championships! I decide to make him a display for his rings.
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Posted: 9/7/2024 4:55:16 PM EDT
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1st of 3 cherry trees being milled up for me. Right now this one is at 30% moisture. The other 2 have been down for 3 years so should be drier. I hope!
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Posted: 9/8/2024 11:25:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MrSig239: So many wows from the wife over her anniversary present I made for her I lost count! I think she liked it. Rock maple with ax abrasive paste and carnauba wax. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/clockfrt_jpg-3275129.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/clockside_jpg-3275131.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56211/clockrear_jpg-3275132.JPG  |
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Posted: 9/8/2024 12:49:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By medicmandan: Those are cool. Where do you get the kits? I've done single cigar tubes with the built in hygrometer/humidor for friends. This would go well in matching wood and maybe use up some scraps. These are the Steampunk lighter kits from Turner's Warehouse. Tubeless design but there are folks who do use tubes with these. Uses a 12mm drill bit. Lighters Drop Anchor Creations offers TBC bushings for them Bushings |
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Posted: 9/8/2024 6:14:57 PM EDT
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5 x 3 apple wood box. Started with a 5 inch diameter branch. Happy with the top and middle but the bottom had to many defects and is now to small! Going to try the same shape in cherry or maple later.
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Posted: 9/8/2024 8:50:25 PM EDT
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A pair of bacote bottle openers I made this weekend. The notch in the top functions as a cigar rest.
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Posted: 9/9/2024 8:14:39 PM EDT
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Latest and greatest!
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Posted: 9/10/2024 3:13:10 PM EDT
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Nice to both projects above!
Cut off the bottom and added a new one. Also stripped off the finish and redid with friction polish. Defects in the apple wood purposely left.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 9/10/2024 3:17:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/11/2024 4:24:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/12/2024 6:42:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/13/2024 4:23:43 PM EDT
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Got a request for another live edge maple bowl from the old owner of the tree.
6 X 6 with Walnut oil so far.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/16/2024 10:24:05 AM EDT
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Continuing with my chess piece related boxes. This one has the lid hidden on the bottom.
Still a little wet so needs final sand and finish.  Attached File |
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