I get my wood burning materiel from a little cabinet shop down the way a mile or so(my next door neighbot).
Had this scrap of oak plywood thought I would make something usefull out of it and share with the site. The second picture is a larger one of the same subject on the right rear door of my 1956 Chev Pael Delivery. As one can tell I love fighting the grain trying to make it all blend together. Semper Fi

Took a chain saw and split this cedar log. It has limbs in their natural curve for the set of legs on each end. The top was as thick as the top of the carving. I used my chainsaw to rough cut it down and chiseled the rest off with a homemade chisel. All the carving was done with my pocket knife. Time is not a factor when I am doing a project The bottom side is unfinished, just peeled the bark and chiseled the places for the legs to start a fit, lot of looking and a peeping to get it flat. Even the cut where I put the logs together was done with my chainsaw.

Too bad there’s only three pictures allowed I’ve gone crazy with my new camera. If ya can’t figure out the message I put there with all those hours invested, just guess.

This wood is Sasafras. I planted this lillle patch on a fence row at my old home place when I was a teenager. Came back to the same place after a world tour in the Marines. This piece is about three inches in diameter and sliced it in half with my chain saw. This paticular piece has 28 growth rings. They put out from the rood and there’s always different sizes. This tree was twisted and snapped into when Ivan (which is also my middle name) came through. Done with my pocket knife only and no sanding. Semper Fi!

I made this out of wood, probably never been used but rarely to make lumber. The tree was at an old cabin that was built after the place was homesteaded. There’s no way of telling how old it was and how long it had been dead before the timber company came in and leveled everything. I used my chainsaw to find this much out of the center still good. I mean this was all too. I used no metal, only dowel pins and glue. Gary, can you come up with a name in less than two hours???? It would really be interesting to see if anyone has ever seen any and know what it is. (CHINA BERRY)

This is the natural color of the wod under the lid. Don’t know why it turned this yellowish kind of color after putting sealer and clear. This type of wood could not be burned in a fireplace, it would blow coals and sparks all over the room.

Never had anyone guess what this very functional piece is. It is Shaker and as shaker went, very functional.
When the wife or I open it up, all we get is OHHH!!!!.

I might have previously mentioned that I took several different courses under the old G.I.Bill. One of them was cabinet making. Learned how but never have built a cabinet, but could if I wanted to. I found a picture of this piece so small, about an inch and a half wide and about three inches tall. It had no mesurements what so ever and at the time they wanted to sell the pattern. Five kids was raised and all of them used this piece right where it’s setting. the bottom has a door with a shelf halfway up to set the iron and what ever in or on. I’m pretty sure the Shaker’s had the old smoothing irons that was heated on the hearth. I drilled a hole in the back, a couple of inches above the shelf for the modern iron cord to be run through and plugged into the socket behind the piece.

Ya’ll can make ya self one, ifen ya wnata and aminding. It’s no wonder these rednecks can’t figure something out for that’s the way we all talk, kinda grows on ya. I might add, the placement of the two hinges on the board is crucial for the leg to swing down and miss the front of the cabinet. I fixed mine that after unlatching the little wooden latch at the top, grasp the end of the board and swing it down without helping the leg miss the top front of the cabinet. If swung down fast enough the leg will automatically go forward and engage the stop and the board will be perfectly flat.

Another chainsaw project and it tickled me getting the measurements for the seat. I found her in the house taking a nap and I measured her bottom and woke up asking me what was I doing. I told her you will see.

The rockers came off a limb curved just right, split it down the middle. Had to do a little whittleing to get it to rock good.

“No body” has ever connected there hinny to this chair, the measurements was applied and it just fits her.

Special wood, for my mom used to play under this old walnut tree when she was about three or four years old. Wish I could have taken a pic when I cut it down back in the sixty’s. standing out in the middle of the old place that was homesteaded dead, nearly all the limbs, knocked off by the wind over the years. (where the rocker limb came from. Standing out in the middle of St. Regis paper company land, sneaked in there and cut it down with a cross cut saw. God, that’s a story in it’’s self. Semper Fi!

Made this chest out of two inch thick juniper wood. Down south here it can be found in and around fresh water creeks and streams. Looks like a cedar tree and is evergreen. Inside is the color of the chest and smells like the strong smell of cedar.

Good straight lumber is hard to find, even though a tree a couple feet in diameter the grain will be twisted like a barbers pole. The bark is the clue, if the bark is spirling around the tree the lumber is exactlly like the bark. About two percent will have straight grain. Thought someone would like the description of the tree.

I made the chest with dowel pins. Carved the rope looking like it is pulled tight, like as in a bundle or package.
I was kinda peptimistic about cutting the top, thinking it might spring into all different shapes, even thougt I hand picked the tree myself. Thank goodness it stayed straight. I lined the inside of the top and bottom, plus the bottom of the sliding drawer with red cedar; grown here locally.

Built this for my baby daughter over twenty years ago. Age marks with raising two kids by herself left it’s toll.

Thanks for the warm welcome from those on this site and I will keep saying it. Semper Fi !

Willie was one of the group “The Highwaymen”, and this group is in high contention of being one of the best groups of Country Music. This is only having produced three albums. Willie was the “Highwayman” going through the “If I’s”.

I really liked this picture, they look like they are about to go hurt something. Hate to be the object that they are stareing at!

This one is hanging in my daughters den over her old worn out cedar chest. Done on oak, hard to burn on with a constant temp. burning iron, will get a blow out in a heart beat.

Sorry about the glare on the close up, my fault. She wanted to take it out of the frame, Oh well!!!!

Semper fi!

Since I had a extra space, didn’t want it to go to waste. Didn’t have but one picture of these anyway. My wife Deborah thought she needed this one herself.

Some pyrography on birch. Added some more photos showing detail put into this piece. Semper Fi