TheBenHoyle
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Sorry to hear that your paycheck is being F-ed with.
Woodworking Hunt Talkers?
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Redmt
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The good side is that our elected officials are enjoying a 2 week paid vacation while the US employees are being held as bargaining pawns.
grizzly63
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I have been tempted to go into mass production but I really think it would take all the fun out of it. It would cease to be a hobby and turn into work. Work is one of the things that make me enjoy hobbies. Being good at something is akin to having a pickup truck, people find you useful, Ha!
I do think your egg stands are sweet.
I do think your egg stands are sweet.
Sorry man. I’ve been there too.
TheBenHoyle
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I had a friend invite me to watch him build a lightsaber at Disneyland. It was fun and I was happy to be a part of it. I'm a big fan of Star Wars and on top of that I figured I could build him a nice display stand. I always like to have a reason to make something.
He designed the overall size and functionality and I offered him a bunch of different types of wood I had on hand. He picked a piece of plum wood that came from a tree that grew in my dad's backyard.
The wood is so rich with character. I finished it with some tung oil and added the words Protection and Defense in the Star Wars Aurebesh alphabet to each end. I was planning on woodburning it, but I felt like my skills might not be up to the challenge. So I had it cut out in vinyl with a cricket type machine.
It turned out really nice. Kinda makes me want to make a light saber for myself just so I can make another on of these display stands.
He designed the overall size and functionality and I offered him a bunch of different types of wood I had on hand. He picked a piece of plum wood that came from a tree that grew in my dad's backyard.
The wood is so rich with character. I finished it with some tung oil and added the words Protection and Defense in the Star Wars Aurebesh alphabet to each end. I was planning on woodburning it, but I felt like my skills might not be up to the challenge. So I had it cut out in vinyl with a cricket type machine.
It turned out really nice. Kinda makes me want to make a light saber for myself just so I can make another on of these display stands.
Another guitar built. This one is a 1/4 inch top of Black Ash crotch I milled from my land. 
I glued to popular. I built it for a friends wife. The logo is her last name and has a little metal flake in it. the body area has a light red and black flack too, but it will show up in pictures and looks more like dust with my camera.
I glued to popular. I built it for a friends wife. The logo is her last name and has a little metal flake in it. the body area has a light red and black flack too, but it will show up in pictures and looks more like dust with my camera.
Hem
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Very cool. That grain almost has an electric vibe, begging to be plugged in.
For a second I was scratching my head, ...Schmalts McCumber is an original ( odd) name.
TheGrayRider
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Woodworker delivered the leopard pedestal this past week. He used 100+ year old black walnut from an old homestead. It’s not African ironwood but I like the finished look.
I am still waiting on the full-body leopard mount from the taxidermist. Should be fairly soon…Happy hunting to all, TheGrayRider a/k/a Tom.
Got the sawmill out to cut a few posts and square up some dried milled lumber. Built this in a week mid day between bow hunts. Total solo project and it did get a little hairy a few times as the horizontal beams are 2x10 red oak and weight as much as the Titanic. I never installed metal roofing before but man that's fast and easy. 
Redmt
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I like your grapple!
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Caseknife
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You got black walnut and jealous of my trees? Lol. I have like 30 walnut around an old farmstead. I do have a lot of veneer grade red and white oak though. Red oak prices in the shitter, white oak awesome. White pine logs if i cut myself and sell to the amish not terrible but pine pulp is worthless. My butternut are all gone from blight, ash dead from EAB. I have a diverse mix including worthless birch, decent popular, and maple and basswood.. I'm at the age i would rather look at 100 year old or better trees than cut them for money I don't in need. Clearing out the ash pockets made nice bedding cover though, even if crap trees filled in .
Redmt
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I have probably 10-15 old growth trunks and stumps from 12-24" in diameter and up to 10' from root ball to crotch wood. They are several years dry but I'm just not sure what to do with them, how to cut them or how to market them. There's a couple root stumps 3' in diameter that could make really nice table tops but they are too big in diameter for me to cut.
