Whups I got two of the ends of the handles too short. I'll have to glue some back on. Its good to save all the pieces till I say calf rope. Don't have a clue what that means except some of my cowboy buddies use to say that??

  Only kind of hydrants we had were double sided! 

Another whups, I got my biscuit slots too close and should have used enough glue to fill the voids after I saw my mistake. At least it would have saved wood doughing. I could have used the non run glue.

I think it's looking pretty good! A LOT better than I could do.

Looks great Patch. I like the center ring adds a nice effect.

Great piece Patch...are you making for someone in particular? Excellent tribute to our firefighting professionals. Thanks for sharing.

Looks great to me, the glitches you mention don't take away from it one bit. You are getting better every one you do.

Keep them coming , great to look at.

Herb

Dave I retired as a firefighter in 1980. I only had 23 years in but had enough time in for a little pension money when I turned 55 but I was only 44 when I quit . The next year after I left they did an actuary and lowered the age to start drawing money to 50 down from 55. I made 5 years work of checks but a 1980 retirement check won't hardly pay the sales tax now a days.  I told them I wanted to go and do something else with my life so I went and built a go-cart track.

 Why did I start building the firemans logo thingy, it just happened to be in the stained glass pattern book. I wasn't that gung ho being a fireman. it was just a job.I had learned the streets of Lubbock working at a furniture store and so when I made driver they volunteered me to drive the chief, actually three chiefs. Lubbock about 190,000 at the time was the best laid out city I ever seen. All streets was in order,  either in alphabetical, numbers, letters,  cities , trees, colleges.

  The furniture store taught me to repair new furniture which had been damaged in transit to the store. So when someone bought new, no one would be able to detect any thing had ever been repaired.  After I got on the fire dept. I opened a furniture repair and refinish shop. This is where I learned all the woods which were used in the mfg of furniture. I also took care of the damage the moving companies did to the furniture and  was paid by the insurance companies. Lubbock at the time had Reese Air Force base flight training right outside of town and I did real well taking care of all the folks that moved there from where ever..Plus Texas Tech had a few furniture damage claims.

I think it looks really nice.

 

Great Job!!