April 20, 20197 yr Popular Post A friend of mine a year and a half ago was camping by this lake with his buddies. A big wind came up abruptly as they were standing around the fire trading great adventures. Suddenly a cedar tree blew over and pinned three of them to the ground. The others rushed to cut the out to rescue them. My friend was the only one seriously hurt. he had a broken right leg and a smashed ankle. To make the story short, after much surgery and therapy he was able to sort of walk and he fell again and re-broke his ankle. They re-did the surgery on his ankle and and it was healing fine and he had a stroke. He is only 53yo and had some brain damage along with some paralysis of his left side. While recuperating his buddies would come to visit and one day one of them brought him a piece of fire wood from the tree. He then later asked me to make him something from the block of wood for a remembrance of the experience. So here is what I made. Herb
April 20, 20197 yr Great looking box......but what does it weigh? Hopefully he won't need to move it too often. He's certainly lucky to have a friend such as yourself. Hopefully he'll have much better luck in the future, better than that tree for sure.
April 20, 20197 yr Popular Post I like it. My brothers and sisters and I talked about me making urn boxes for our ashes in advance. I will have to put that up as an example.
April 20, 20197 yr Popular Post Herb that is so cool, what a neat way to do this! So whats' the diameter of that log, it looks huge on your band saw. But I am thinking that is due to optical disillusion.
April 20, 20197 yr Author Popular Post 15 minutes ago, John Morris said: Herb that is so cool, what a neat way to do this! So whats' the diameter of that log, it looks huge on your band saw. But I am thinking that is due to optical disillusion. it is 14"L X11" diam. and inside is 11"L X 6"W X 6"D It doesn't weigh that much, it is cedar.
April 21, 20197 yr Author Popular Post 58 minutes ago, Gerald said: Great job . How did you get the bark to stay on? When I got the log, it was soaking wet. So I trimmed the ends as square as I could on the bandsaw. Then I slabbed all 4 sides, the water ran out of it when I cut it. This happened in Dec last year, and I set all the parts on the shelf in the shop to dry. When I started to work on them last Wednesday, the bark shucked off. So I cleaned off all the loose stuff and spread a liberal coat of TB II on and put the bark back on and clamped them down. It seemed to work to hold the bark in place. When I finished them I put a good soaking of water based Poly on the bark to keep it from flaking off,and give it a little sheen. Herb
April 21, 20197 yr Popular Post Very impressive! This is what bothers me about my future in woodworking, I may learn how to use the tools, but I fear I don’t have the imagination to think of projects such as this. Great idea, great execution.
April 21, 20197 yr Author Popular Post 1 hour ago, Artie said: Very impressive! This is what bothers me about my future in woodworking, I may learn how to use the tools, but I fear I don’t have the imagination to think of projects such as this. Great idea, great execution. It will come to you as you get proficient with the tools. A good place to start is to make a wooden cabinet under that scroll saw and put some drawers in it for all the scroll saw supplies. that way you will know where all your blades,wrenches, everything you use for scroll sawing is hiding. Have some locking caster on it and you can move it out of the way when not in use. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=shop+scroll+saw+cabinets&t=ffab&atb=v80-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images Herb
April 21, 20197 yr Author Popular Post 14 minutes ago, Artie said: You did give me an idea or two, looking at the link. Thank you. That is how I do it, I take some of this and some of that one and combine it with some of another to come up with what I think will work. Herb
April 21, 20197 yr 2 hours ago, Artie said: This is what bothers me about my future in woodworking, I've seen your work, you need not worry. A lot of people here have been at this a lot longer, or have a better than normal level of creativity.
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