Making boards!

[nelsone]

I am starting a new project and thought I'd share what I've done so far.

Dennis (Gotcha6) was kind enough to let me gain some red oak from his mis-fortune. (Thanks Dennis!!!

I started splitting the log.





Riven boards. I really need a froe and I think I have a line on one at a great price --- FREE!


Forgot to add the broad ax pics, but then I started with the fore plane (scrub)



Then checked flatness with the winding sticks. I pretty happy so far!



More to follow, but I need the boards to season for a week or two!

Any guesses on what I'm making?

[ptt49er]

You've got more patience than I do! Nice work sir and what a way to make good out of someone's misfortune!

I'm guessing a chair ?

[Gotcha6]

It's a chair for my 'lemonade stand'!

[nelsone]

Nope. No chair...yet!

[Sully]

You are making a board.

J

[PeteM]

I'd put my $$$ on:

http://peterfollansbee.com/new_websi...ved_boxes.html

pete

[walnutjerry]

Shavings!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jerry

[CarvedTones]

I'd put my $$$ on:

http://peterfollansbee.com/new_websi...ved_boxes.html

pete

That guy is serious about it!



I have been working on splitting saplings and I wish I had a froe. I have been using the "drive a wedge in the middle and work the crack to the end" method.

I split a pecan limb into 3 nice bow staves and thought this wasn't so hard after all:




Then I met this hickory sapling:



Ay yi yi!

[nelsone]

I'd put my $$$ on:

http://peterfollansbee.com/new_websi...ved_boxes.html

pete

Ding, Ding, Ding! You win!!! Sorry, the prize isn't anything more than me going Ding, Ding, Ding!

Shavings!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jerry

Yep, making plenty of those too!

That guy is serious about it!



I have been working on splitting saplings and I wish I had a froe. I have been using the "drive a wedge in the middle and work the crack to the end" method.

I split a pecan limb into 3 nice bow staves and thought this wasn't so hard after all:




Then I met this hickory sapling:



Ay yi yi!

Yea, hickory isn't much fun to split!!!

[CarvedTones]

For my next trick, I am going to try to straighten one of the hickory pieces just to see if I can learn how. The hickory isn't worth it; another sapling like it is easy to come by. But I understand black locust likes to do that also, so if I am able to get a BL log one day I want to already know how to deal with it.

[froglips]

How cool! Peter is really inspiring.

Are you going to do the carving too?

Jim

[nelsone]

How cool! Peter is really inspiring.

Are you going to do the carving too?

Jim

That's the plan! I have to see if I can make an $800 box!

[CarvedTones]

We have seen your work; you definitely have the skills! The trick is finding the buyers, I think...

[Mike Davis]

How cool! Peter is really inspiring.

Are you going to do the carving too?

Jim

Not much point in making the box unless you want it for a place to carve on, right Ed?

[nelsone]

Not much point in making the box unless you want it for a place to carve on, right Ed?