Opportunity #4: Wood

trade it for willow? You’ve done some great stuff with willow. ;)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Could spin a few bats…..although 2” is a bit thin.

-- Lord LQQK, www.woodsmithy.com

Street Ball bats from the streets of New York.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Do you have a good planer and jointer yet? I saw one (6 inch Grizzley) on craigslist for Provo, Utah today for $200!

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

Hi Ms Debbie;

Nothing like a great piece of ash. Sorry, I couldn’t pass on that!

Since everybody said bats, I have nothing original to add.

Oh well.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

ash is a traditional arts and crafts period wood.

it is often dyed dark to resemble mission oak…. .not sure how ambitious you are >grin< bet you could crank out whole bunch of lamps with mica shades and sell them for quite a bit $$$. If you worked hard,... 2 hours a day and Saturdays, bet you could easily make a dozen lamps and sell them before January !!

Contemporay lamps of this period style sell on ebay for anywhere from $90 to $600 each.

I’ve made a few mission lamps.
Not that hard to make with a few construction jigs for the piramid shaped wooden shade.

Be more then willing to help you get started. I may have my old autocad drawings some where. sketchup etc.

-- ..... art for lifes sake ... danwalters@lumberjocks.com

Well there you go Debbie. Mark DeCou has a picture on one of his projects of a lamp like that.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Cutting boards?

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

End grain and flat grain to give it some character.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

I think if I ran across that much ash, I would also be thinking workbench top…

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

One more idea….

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/2961

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Projects tagged ash ;)

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what great ideas!
The first thing Rick did when we got home was cut off a length and run it through the planer. He then looked at it and said “baseball bat”.
The lathe is his toy so I’ll leave that vision to him.

I like the lamp idea as well. Sounds like that would also be a lathe project.

Cutting board sounds good .. and the “big ash bench” is a good idea.

I tried talking to the planed piece of wood to see what it said, but it remained silent. Perhaps today it will give me directions :)

Thanks everyone for the input.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

How about some “ash” trays? No, that is a bad habit that the children should not be subjected to. I just couldn’t help myself.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

haha funny :)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Nice find Debbie. What about table legs for one of your tables? If you want a top table of the same material, you can re-saw some of the boards in half and then glue them up. I bet they would make some nice end tables.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

I started making a little foot stool this morning .. and well, I knew I should have stayed out of the shop. I was just having one of those days. And, what did I end up doing? Broke the bit for my dowelmax. .. I knew something was going to happen – but my dowelmax??? OH Universe you are so cruel!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)