Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

[Dan-06]

what are you planning on mounting the cross on? Looks good by the way.

 

[Redmt]

what are you planning on mounting the cross on? Looks good by the way.

It's drilled and tapped for 5/8-11. I have an 18" stainless all thread that will go into the cross 8" and the rest in a concrete base at his headstone.

 

[Dan-06]

Perfect. I knew that you had it covered. I was just curious.

 

[Redmt]

I was going to just drill and epoxy it but got the idea to see if it would hold tapped threads. The wood is so hard that it cut clean crisp threads.

 

[Dan-06]

I suppose I could see that based on the specimen you’re working with.

 

[TheBenHoyle]

A while ago, I shot a doe and my wife asked if I could do a Euro mount of the Doe's skull. I assured her that I could and she said that she wanted to have it on display in her high school biology classroom.

I got the skull cleaned, but then I lost sight of the project for a while, partly due to other things going on and partly due to me being nervous about trying to build the glass box.

I decided it was time and I put it all together. It wasn't very hard, but I was nerve wracking. I like how it turned out and I will probably do more things ike this in the future.

On the upside, all of the wood was scrap from other projects I have done in the past.

 

[Redmt]

My daughter asked me to make her a cutting board. I never made one before but had refinished one that was about 50 years old. This one is black walnut, valley oak, teak, cherry and english walnut. It was all cut out of what was going to be firewood.

 

[TheBenHoyle]

Many years ago, my dad told me he was going to have to cut down a tree at the family farm because it was going to block the lane. I wanted a new fireplace mantel, so I asked him to take the trunk to a local sawmill and get a 3"-ish thick beam out of it.

He did a great job and handed it over relatively quickly. I let it dry in my shed for about a decade before I finally flattened it and filled all the cracks and voids. And then it sat on my work bench for 6 months or so before I finally mounted it above the fireplace.



I'm so happy to finally get this done and now I have a workbench that I can see the top of again.

 

[Rack Daniels]

Looks great! Those bricks could come back to life and the whole wall will pop!

 

[TheBenHoyle]

Looks great! Those bricks could come back to life and the whole wall will pop!

I would like to put a veneer of limestone or something like that, but I decided I wasn't going to wait on that to get the mantel up.

 

[Dan-06]

That’s kool. What species of wood?

 

[Kaitum]

Last woodworking project for me for awhile. Used up some random pieces in the lumber pile. Bloodwood and maple top, bubinga bottom. Internal box for piece storage with hidden false bottom compartment for storing documents of national security

 

[Rack Daniels]

I would like to put a veneer of limestone or something like that, but I decided I wasn't going to wait on that to get the mantel up.

lol I don’t blame you, not after that long of a process!

 

[TheBenHoyle]

That’s kool. What species of wood?

It is ash. Not sure if it is white ash or green ash. Same wood as most Louisville Sluggers.

 

[Dan-06]

It is ash. Not sure if it is white ash or green ash. Same wood as most Louisville Sluggers.

I thought so. I have used it for tables. Very hard.

 

[Redmt]

I haven't really decided yet. It all started off when I was clearing roads and ran across the tree blocking the road and it was too big to move with my d4. I called a buddy to give a hand and he brought his 661 Stihl and I switched to my d5 that's much heavier and more power.
It could end up as a new woodshed or maybe some log cabin type hunting blind. I'll have to see how the wood is when I get around to milling it.
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I finally got around to getting it all the way home. It was nearly 40' long . I cut it into 3 lengths that would get the straightest lumber. I started to square it up some and haven't had a chance to get back to it.