My master piece

[Gaidin]

Beautiful Piece of work man.  I think that will be a treasured gift!

[Dragon]

After looking at the first picture I was expecting some kind of totem pole or something.  Very nice work on that chest. 

[Nefarious]

Very Sharp! 

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Dam dude 

[john9001]

dkff, did you air dry the log whole or cut it into planks and then dry it?

nice job.

[FiLtH]

 Nice work!  My brother does alot of woodworking and has greatly improved over the past couple years. I used to do some back in school, but lost interest. Ive become more of a "If ya cant build it outta 2x4s and sheet rock screws, its too much bother"

[Maverick]

dkff, did you air dry the log whole or cut it into planks and then dry it?

nice job.

Kind of my question as well.. Did you plank it out yourself and if so, how?

BTW that is simply beautiful work there. Your daughter is going to be very proud of it.

[Twister2]

Power of the Amish. Nice work.

[68ZooM]

 Dkff Where do we place our orders for the Amish Fireplace mantle? all kidding aside, its a very beautiful chest your daughter will cherish it for years, i still have my grandmothers cedar chest that her father made her in 1903.

[dkff49]

Thanks guys

It will be worth every minute of work after seeing the look on her face when she sees it.

But do you realize that that flannel shirt is so long it makes your legs look strangely shorter, you look like some weird Ooompa Loompa from the Willy Wonka movies?   Just kidding!   

yeah it's actually a coat and is long like that for the purposes of keeping the more of the cool air out or maybe directing some of the warm from the a certain part of the anotomy further north 

dkff, did you air dry the log whole or cut it into planks and then dry it?

nice job.

Kind of my question as well.. Did you plank it out yourself and if so, how?

BTW that is simply beautiful work there. Your daughter is going to be very proud of it.

Actually my uncle has a sawmill and sawed the planks for me prior to air drying. The only reason that it dried so long was that i was waiting for just the right project to come along for such nice material.

[dkff49]

Nice.... I like the B....very well done..... do you have some sort of milling equipment?

As far as the 'B' is concerned, I cut it out with a scroll saw then sanded the hell out of it to get the right shape.

The other large tools I used were, table saw, miter saw, planer, and jointer. Because of the size of my shop, I have to move tools around alot to get things done which adds to the time it takes to complete projects, but it getsthe job done.

[Buzzard7]

Very nice!! Work like that is very hard to find now days. A lost art.

[Simba]

Beautiful work. 

[DREDIOCK]

Really nice job

[morfiend]

 Very nice!

  If the tree had to be cut,you made a nice tribute to it.

Nothing worse in my eyes than cuttting and waisting perfectly good wood,far to ofter I see the stuff being burned in some fireplace because no one had the forsight to make it into useable lumber!