Plant Stand: Multi-Purposed 2 x 4 Contest Entry

I knew it! You copied my design. Just kidding.

Very nice job! Good luck in the contest.

Now I’ll have to finish mine for sure.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Good job Paul. Thinking outside the box. Good Luck

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

That was not what I was expecting when I saw your preliminary photos. Not that I knew what I was expecting, though. Nice job.

-- Maplewood, MN

Great design! Very unique. As a stand alone piece (even without the limitations of the contest) it is impressive. Bravo.

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Thanks Blake, Rikkor, Karson and Gary,

When my wife saw it she said, “Where are you going to put it?”

I instantly understood that it wasn’t going to go in our house (“doesn’t go with anything”). After 21 years of marriage, you hear those unspoken words behind the spoken words pretty clearly. If I had a destination for another, I would consider trying it with some different joinery and I think it might look better in white oak. Maybe in black walnut, too, but with some kind of fancy inlays, instead of cutouts?

-- Paul, Texas

Pretty cool. It’s a bit surprising how much wood comes out of a 2×4.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Paul

You can always send it to me! Nice work!

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Tony Ward

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Brilliant, I like the uniqueness. Not enough left over to make a small plant?

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

GREAT JOB,I like the bent staves

-- Robert, mountainwoodcarving@netzero.net

YES – outside the box!...

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

Interesting. It does have sort of a Arts-and-Crafts-African-Folk-Art look to it.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

this is magnificent… without the challenge, without the 2×4, without the.. whatever… all on its own, this is magnificent.

I like the cutouts. – it makes it look like the wood was just stretched around the frame.

You must be SO proud of this! Well done. :D

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Very nice Paul. Good luck.

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Darn good for a 2×4!

It’s just amazing what you ‘saw’ inside that 2×4! It does remind me of an African drum. You should tell your wife it doesn’t need to go with anything. Good luck.

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

Very cool! Thats kind of along the same lines as what I’m doing (I think!..LOL).

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that is really cool!!!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...142 days to sanity...

You made that out of a…what? a two by huh? Nice work!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Hi Paul…............I’m really enjoying everybodies 2×4 projects. You plant stand is out there pretty good. I like the thinking on the top. I like the use of the round head brass screws too.

Digg’in it all!!!!!!

This is another great one!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Amazing what people will come up with using a simple 2×4! Fantastic originality and well-thought out plan!

God Bless,
Hawg

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