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Accidental Art

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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

1469 posts in 563 days


posted 538 days ago

It’s like an archeological story book. Is there a way to petrify it?

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3

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MsDebbieP

12282 posts in 701 days


posted 538 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!!

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

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jockmike2

4506 posts in 787 days


posted 538 days ago

Try pouring acrylic polymer over it very lightly in several coats you may get a layer of it out. jockmike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

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Dick, & Barb Cain

5399 posts in 839 days


posted 538 days ago

I looks a lot like a cross section of a mineral formation. You could maybe fool a Geologist.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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CharlieM1958

4593 posts in 758 days


posted 538 days ago

I love it!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

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Karson

14323 posts in 940 days


posted 538 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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

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scottb

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posted 538 days ago

very sedimentary!

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

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Bob Babcock

1807 posts in 626 days


posted 538 days ago

Interesting…

I think Karson just buried a body….

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

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cajunpen

5345 posts in 606 days


posted 538 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?

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

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miles125

996 posts in 546 days


posted 538 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""

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oscorner

4573 posts in 851 days


posted 537 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.

-- Jesus is Lord!

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Dadoo

1557 posts in 530 days


posted 530 days ago

Great memories! Maybe I shouldn’t clean my shop so often!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

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