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I do not consider myself an artist. After reviewing some of the projects on LJ’s, I definitely know I am not. I was working in the shop doing some house cleaning when I ran across my accidental art work. I have a large drawer in the bottom of my table saw, and it was heaping. I pulled it out and using the dust collector hose started sucking it out.
As I sucked up the layers, I could reminisce about some of the projects I had done. The light pink layer was the insulation for our shop walls and floor. The dark red/purple line toward the bottom was a Maple/Purple Heart box joint box for my mother. Some pine from bird houses we made with nieces and nephews. Green treated lumber for the deck we put on my folk’s house.
You’re a lumberjock if you appreciate sawdust art in a drawer
Thanks for viewing.
-- Joel Tille





























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TreeBones
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posted 896 days ago
It’s like an archeological story book. Is there a way to petrify it?
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MsDebbieP
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posted 896 days ago
That is BEAUTIFUL…If you didn’t get to preserve it in any other way (I would have had to come up with something).. at least you have this beautiful pix.
Gorgeous!!
See??? Only an artist would have “seen” this beauty. You ARE an artist!!
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jockmike2
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posted 896 days ago
Try pouring acrylic polymer over it very lightly in several coats you may get a layer of it out. jockmike
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 896 days ago
I looks a lot like a cross section of a mineral formation. You could maybe fool a Geologist.
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CharlieM1958
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posted 896 days ago
I love it!
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Karson
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posted 896 days ago
Great collection of dust. I had a friend helping me clean up my shop and at the end of the dust hose connector (where there was no hose) was this pile of sawdust that had come from my band saw. He was amazed by the colors of wood dust and the layers they made. Here is the wood shaving pile after I added the chips from my Thorsen Greene and Greene Tables.
Black popular on the left, Holly in the middle and Goncalo Alves on the right.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
scottb
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posted 896 days ago
very sedimentary!
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Bob Babcock
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posted 896 days ago
Interesting…
I think Karson just buried a body….
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cajunpen
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posted 896 days ago
Just learned something new – as a LJ we all now know that dust is pretty. Who would have thunk it :-)) Oh, nice story too.
Karson – is that where Jimmy Hoff has been hiding?
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miles125
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posted 895 days ago
Looks like a nice variation of projects you been working on there…and remember…Its not that an artist is a certain type of man..its that every man is a certain type of artist.
-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""
oscorner
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posted 894 days ago
Hurry up and slap some glue on it. What a wild board that would have made. By the way, you sure get a lot of saw dust in your drawers! Hee…Hee…Hee.
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Dadoo
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posted 888 days ago
Great memories! Maybe I shouldn’t clean my shop so often!
-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!
Chris Cunanan
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posted 340 days ago
omg i just saw this, i love your idea joel! I would like to say i thought of it at time looking at all the different pretty woods after running them through the jointer, but I never took it to this point. Hmmm, that would be sickkk if you made bigger frames (>2’x2’ or so) and hung them on the wall to look like some tile, hmmm….please do it so i can see it? lol otherwise it’ll be another 2 years before i do it!