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Osage Orange picture frames

Blog series by ahock updated 136 days ago 2 parts 597 reads 11 comments total

Part 1: The wood has arrived

187 days ago by ahock | 10 comments »

This is the first project that I’m working on since I’ve joined LJ’s and thought, “Hey, I’ll journal the whole thing on here and get some input from people…”. So that’s what I’m doing. I wanted to try my hand at Osage Orange, as I’ve seen some cool things done with it before and wanted a challenge, from what I hear it’s very hard and dense. I couldn’t find any locally, so I went to Bell Forest Products website and pick...

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Part 2: Finally! I have two together

136 days ago by ahock | 1 comment »

So It took me a long time, but I finally have two together and finished! Here they are: I used a double splined miter corner. The splines are out of some extra cherry I had laying around. I glued up the frames with the one spline between my rails & stiles (is there a real term?). Then used my splining jig to do the side splines. Now that I have the process down I can buzz through the other 6 frames I have to make. Thanks for reading!

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