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09-23-2005, 04:52 PM
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Name: Brent Henze City: Farmville State: NC County: Pitt Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 37 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Dunno if "Hey, look at my new gallery" is an appropriate use of this forum, but "Hey, look at my new gallery!" http://www.ncwoodworker.net/gallery/...ages.php?c=107
Happy to have found this great web community,
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09-23-2005, 07:56 PM
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Name: DaveO City: Clayton State: NC County: Johnston Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 38 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Very nice work. Your split oak frame is very interesting, can you give more info on how you made it. Look forward to seeing more pictures from you, we love pics. Dave 
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Honestly Honey, that will cost around $100 $150 $200, and I need a few more tools. 
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09-23-2005, 08:49 PM
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Name: Steve City: Apex State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 64 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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This a fine place for this post, welcome. Originally Posted by brenthenze
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09-23-2005, 10:06 PM
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Name: Jay Memmelaar City: Dudley State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 41 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Nice work Brent especially like the firewood. | |
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09-23-2005, 10:21 PM
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Name: Monty City: Hickory State: NC County: Catawba Join Date: Jul 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I agree - the firewood piece is cool. Now I'm going to have to look more carefully at my firewood! Thanks for sharing. | |
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09-24-2005, 02:15 PM
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Name: Brent Henze City: Farmville State: NC County: Pitt Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 37 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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The problem that I've run into now is that I hate to burn the stuff! My firewood guy happened to give me a particularly "clean" batch of oak, and I wound up setting aside a good bit of it to plank.
The firewood frame began as an experiment--I'd just gotten my new bandsaw and a nice 1" Timberwolf resaw blade, and I used some firewood to give the saw and blade a test run. It sliced the first chunk so nicely that I poked around the woodpile until I found a nice quartered chunk that had evidently been near a limb--the knot was left in an adjacent quarter, but (as grain tends to do) the grain had compensated by sweeping in a pleasing arc around the knot end of the limb. Red oak splits so cleanly that there wasn't much to do to the split edge.
A nice thing about quartered oak firewood is that it's already halfway to being quartersawn--all we have to do is slice it up!
Not much to say about the construction--it's a hand-cut M&T joint in each corner. I used a hand-scraper to preserve but smooth out the inner edges of the rails and stiles. Finished with Formby's "tung oil" finish.
Glad y'all liked the piece! Not much skill required here--just pretty wood! | |
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09-26-2005, 01:25 AM
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Name: Roger City: Durham State: NC County: Durham Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 62 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Nice work Brent. Also like your avatar. Is that an Ivory Billed Woodpecker hanging out in your yard? We don't have many of those in the Triangle 
Still looking for a Carolina Parakeet,
Sapwood
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09-26-2005, 05:31 PM
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Name: Brent Henze City: Farmville State: NC County: Pitt Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 37 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Yep, that's an Ivory-bill...whole FLOCKS of 'em around here--I don't know what the big deal is, except that they're *delicious*! Mmmmmm...better than condor, which I find gamey. | |
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