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!:gar-Bi

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'!:rotflm:

 

[nelsone]

Nope. No chair...yet!

 

[Sully]

You are making a board.

J

 

[PeteM]

I'd put my $$$ on:

http://peterfollansbee.com/new_website_Jan_2008/carved_boxes.html

pete

 

[walnutjerry]

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

Jerry

 

[CarvedTones]

I'd put my $$$ on:

http://peterfollansbee.com/new_website_Jan_2008/carved_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_website_Jan_2008/carved_boxes.html

pete

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

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!:gar-Bi

 

[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? :rotflm:

 

[nelsone]

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

:gar-Bi

 

[LeftyTom]

Those pics will give you some good show-n-tell, for when you stop by St. Roy's place in Pittsboro. :widea:

 

[nelsone]

Those pics will give you some good show-n-tell, for when you stop by St. Roy's place in Pittsboro. :widea:

:rolf:I'll have to bring them to Ed's for the MWTCA meet next month! Roy is likely to show up!