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Juniper and Spalted Pecan Shelf
It is 100 degrees today in the shop so I pulled this shelf out front to finish it. Several coats of Tung Oil dried real quick…and did not amber the natural color of the wood.
It is a general all purpose display shelf, it is 72” inches tall on the Juniper posts, one has a fork at the top for hanging your hat on. There is a forked stretcher at the back running from the bottom rail/stretcher to the top. I used spalted pecan shelves because the sapwood matches the color of the juniper with a mixture of pink heartwood and spalted sapwood 54” long and 12” wide, I rounded their edges with a roundover bit. I flattened the tops of the rungs for the shelves with a grinder by hand as Santa has not brought me a joiner yet. This log produced some very figured spalting as you can see in the spalted blank block which came out of the same log. Very distinctive lines like a china ink drawing. I know the picture is a little busy, I need to work on building a photo shooting backdrop next.
-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com
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TreeBones
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posted 486 days ago
Beautiful spalting, good one.
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Karson
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posted 486 days ago
Nice shelf and some great looking wood.
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Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 486 days ago
Hi Frank;
That’s some gorgeous wood!
Nice work.
Very unique.
Lee
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Bradford
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posted 486 days ago
Frank, the truth shouldn’t be hidden when you just advertised the whole lot from that log. Who needs a photo booth when you have everything framed in one shot. That little block is perfect as is. Some times wood should remain in it’s original state to remind us of it’s natural beauty. Your pictures just did that. I love those pics. And especially that spalted block. Nice post.
-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.
SawDustnSplinters
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posted 486 days ago
Good point, Brad, sometimes simplicity is best in the scheme of things…
Thanx…to all ya’ll
Be Well….
-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com
trifern
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posted 486 days ago
That is some gorgeous timber. Thank you for sharing.
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thetimberkid
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posted 485 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
Callum
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Dusty56
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posted 383 days ago
that is incredible !! Have you done anyting with that block yet , or might it be for sale ? If it is available , contact me at my email address below .....thank you
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