146 days ago
by James |
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Well after looking around I decided that since most of this wood is warped along its length, I would be better off making smaller things from it. Also, I tend to get more satisfaction from smaller work, so I made a jewelry box. It can be seen in my projects list.
I really like working with this old wood. It has a lot of character to it, which makes picking out where to place the unique features of the wood pretty fun. It finishes real nice with no stain at all, too.
As I am working on s...
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342 days ago
by drknoxy |
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This is a map where I will be adding Hardwood Lumber Supply Stores, and General Woodworking Stores. I’ll add them as I find them. So refer back to this map for updates
View Larger Map
and this is the link if you just want to add it to your favorites or whatev (opens a google maps page):http://tinyurl.com/66f5qd
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566 days ago
by Paul |
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I haven’t been too active on the site lately. But I have been making sawdust in preparation for antique fishing tackle show that I attend, and display at, each year as a member of a fishing tackle collecting club. I’ve shown past examples of all these projects in my projects pages. So, I thought I would just post the latest versions. Wish me luck this coming weekend.
I bill these as tackle storage chests, but they’re based on a machinist-type chest for small tools. T...
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597 days ago
by Kevin |
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I took two days off work and drove back to my Grandpa’s this weekend in an effort to complete the de-construction of the house and salvage all of the Knotty Pine and Ash that I could.
I just got to town when I called Grandpa and he informed me that he decided to leave the house standing and use it as storage for the farm.
Crap – I wasted a weekend. Oh well, what ever he wants to do is fine with me. I guess Dad and I will go fishing instead – maybe not such a waste of a...
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601 days ago
by Kevin |
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I decided today that I would offer some of the Knotty Pine and Ash up for sale to anyone on Lumber Jocks.
I am not doing this to make money, I am doing this because I hate to see it go up in smoke. If I have no takers by this weekend, I’ll get what I can and the remainder will probably be burnt down.
Cost? – Make an offer. Location – SE Kansas or Wichita, Kansas
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602 days ago
by Kevin |
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Here are a few of the boards we have been able to salvage so far. This is probably 1/3 of the Knotty Pine that is there. I will probably get half this much again and then let the building be destroyed. I just simply do not know what to do with all of it, have no good place to store it, and quite frankly do not have the time to keep going back home every weekend to work on it.
Trailer is 18’ x 7’
Most are 8’ – 9’, some 4’, some 12’, and some ...
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622 days ago
by Kevin |
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I know it’s been a long time since I have updated this blog, but there hasn’t been much to update until now.
Reminder Picture:
I have all of the knotty pine off of the interior walls. I have also taken a portion of the studs home and cleaned it up.
Thanks to Les Hastings and the other guys at the Sunflower Woodworkers Guild, I now have a positive identification on the stud species. Ash. Yes, Ash. I would have never guessed, but am glad I decided to try and...
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641 days ago
by bryano |
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I made a visit to my local furnatuer factory to day. I have a habit of looking in there dumpster for scrap hard wood. today i rescued something a little unexpected. I will post more pics of the veneer when i get it all sorted out. I dont even know the names of some of it.
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680 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Somewhere on here I’d started a blog about our gazebo. I’ll have to go back and find the other blog entries.
We started out with a 10×10 tent gazebo purchased from Rona, and after the wind destroyed the frame, it became a wooden framed gazebo with the tarps for walls and roof. The weather has been rough on the tarps and we have had to start replacing the tarps with wood.
Other than the 2×4’s, we have used scrap pieces of everything and anything we could find ...
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723 days ago
by Peter O |
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A discussion about free wood led to some conversation about barn lumber. We have an old barn that came with this place, and I thought I’d share some of our efforts to keep it standing. This is not a majestic old barn built by a well-to-do country gentleman. This was built by a poor depression-era farmer out of whatever he could cobble together. Despite our efforts to keep it standing, we often have people stop by to “offer” to tear it down for us if we let them have the ...
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