713 days ago
by Devin |
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Well…that took a lot longer than I expected. You’d think by now I’d remember that milling the lumber and cutting the joinery is only about the first 25% of the job. The bulk of the effort follows as you make the final adjustments, the final shaping, fine tune the details and then actually sand all the parts, glue up and sand again (and then repair the 6 dings/dents that somehow found their way onto my finished work, thank god for wet rags and irons). And I still have to p...
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909 days ago
by TopamaxSurvivor |
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Here are a few pics of the maple and alder collecting I did last fall and late summer out at the tree farm.
A few whacks with the maul on a couple of wedges turns this
into these ;-))
This double grab hook comes in real handy
Easy to open when it gets bound up too tight :-))
Handy for lifting logs too
The Tree Farm is on the far end of the low hill in the foreground. It is just about dead center in the picture where the darkest green gets a bit lighter for the next hill...
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