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One of our members asked if anyone has ever built a wall hanging mail box.
I made this one a few years ago for my Son’s house.
I used the dimensions of a manufactured metal hopper type, that I have on my house
It’s made from some Swedish Pine, I’d bought at Home Depot.
I used a Norwegian Style Rose-malling for the carved flowers.
The carvings are starting to show up better now with the aging process
A couple of coats of Lacquer, & Spar wax.
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15 comments so far
Diane
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posted 837 days ago
Very nice.
Diane
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Roger Strautman
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posted 837 days ago
Looks good Dick! Some pines are rather hard to carve, was this one of the hard ones?
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PanamaJack
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posted 837 days ago
Really nice work Dick. Home Depot call it Swedish Pine so they could charge more? I haven’t seen it at ours here in Southern Indiana.
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Mark A. DeCou
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posted 837 days ago
another masterpiece Dick.
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scottb
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posted 837 days ago
Cool. What makes the pine, Swedish? (being part Swede myself It be cool to get my hands on some)
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john
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posted 837 days ago
Very nice work Dick. It looks great
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TomFran
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posted 837 days ago
Great personalized mailbox, Dick!
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 837 days ago
Thanks to all of you.
I’m not sure if it’s Pine, it could be Spruce but each board had a imported from Sweden tag stuck on the ends. HD didn’t have any special advertisement for it. It reminded me of lodgepole Pine from out West. I bought a bunch of 1×6’s fairly reasonable.
I carved real nice though.
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Buckskin
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posted 837 days ago
You and Carver Rog are part of my inspiration.
Bob Babcock
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posted 837 days ago
Great stuff as usual Dick.
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Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 837 days ago
Dick;
Fine work. sometimes small projects are fun, as they don’t take forever to finish.
One of the things I like about turning.
In no time at all, you can have something beautiful.
Lee
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posted 836 days ago
gorgeous. We don’t get mail delivered to the door.. but I want one of these at my back door! :)
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 836 days ago
Maybe it could be converted into a two family birdhouse! ;)
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Lar
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posted 836 days ago
Very nice job, Dick. So we know where the Cain goes, but where do you put the mail?
Lar
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posted 836 days ago
The junk mail goes in the waste basket, & I let my Son take care of the bills. LOL
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