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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: dkff49 on December 02, 2009, 08:52:24 PM
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Sometimes it amazes me what can be created from such a large ordinary object (shown below) that most people overlook.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/000_0017.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/000_0018.jpg)
I built the hope chest below from the above pin oak tree that I had cut down at a friend's house a couple of years ago and had it air drying since. The bulk of the work was done in my very small (10x14) workshop located in the basement of my house. Finished with 3 coats of clear gloss polyurethane and Golden Oak stain.
It has been a great challenge and very rewarding now that is completed. The only plan I followed was the on that I had pictured in my head, which was altered many times to produce the finished product you see below. Honestly I am very amazed that it came out like it did since it is my first project of this size and detail.
Oh one more detail in case you were wondering, I cut that huge letter B from the same lumber and spent a couple of hours sanding to get it to look just right. My fingers are still raw. :D
This one was built for my 15 year old daughter as a Cristmas gift. My wife and I are very anxious to see the look on her face when she see it on Christmas Day. I do have another chest planned for a friend of mine from the same lumber and armed with the leasons learned from this one.
Anyway here is the closest thing to art that I am capable of.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4417.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4418.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4419.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4420.jpg)
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Very nice work. Also very nice that you made it from a piece of wood you cut down.
I bet your daughter will be very happy to receive that hope chest for Christmas.
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Nice work Dave. Your Amish is showing.
But why do you have that dorky manequin posed next to it? :devil
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Nice job :aok
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Very nice :salute :cheers:
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Very nice work... That is the kind of gift that your daughter will treasure for her entire life, and maybe even her daughter, and her daughter's daughter. My wife has an hope chest that her grandfather made for her when she was about the age of your daughter. It means the world to her. In fact, I call it "Our Personal Ark of the Covenant." Simply because I'm pretty sure that God will strike down anyone who scratches it! :D
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! :D
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Be sure to keep her off the forums until after Christmas.
Great work, plus the satisfaction of creating it yourself.
:aok
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Very nice indeed. Your Daughter should treasure this for all time.
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Nice.... I like the B....very well done..... do you have some sort of milling equipment?
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Absoloutely gorgeous work, that is one of the finest pieces of furniture I have ever seen. You have a gift mate. :rock
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Beautiful mate, just beautiful - your daughter will be thrilled with that.
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Wurzel
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My woodwork teacher used to cry when i had a piece of wood in my hands , you give me a bit of wood i will give you pile of splinters :(
That is a nice bit of work :aok
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That's a great job mate..such an endearing thing for your kid.
Someone will see that in 500 years time on the Antiques beam me over there show.
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Are you as HANDY with your other WOOD ,get it ROFLMFAO
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Excellent!!
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Beautiful Piece of work man. I think that will be a treasured gift!
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After looking at the first picture I was expecting some kind of totem pole or something. Very nice work on that chest. :aok
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Very Sharp! :aok
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Dam dude :salute
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dkff, did you air dry the log whole or cut it into planks and then dry it?
nice job.
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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" :P
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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.
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Power of the Amish. Nice work.
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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.
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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! :D
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.
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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.
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Very nice!! Work like that is very hard to find now days. A lost art.
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Beautiful work. :salute
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Really nice job
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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!
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Yeah me too. Most of this tree made it into my woodstove but thankfully this tree was well placed in between the 2 houses and 2 pine trees which prevented the bottom from having too many knots in it. The friend that owns the property told me that it was coming down no matter what since he was tired of the acorns and the mess, so I took advantage of it. My only real regret is not paying the extra for kiln drying. I ended up waisting about half of what was cut into planks due to cracks in the boards from drying and the lumber ways almost 1/3 more than it would kiln dried. The darn lid ways 20 pounds alone and I actually had to weigh it to figure out which supports to use.
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Looking at the first picture of the endgrain of that large log, it looks kind of like a teddy bear in there, and with a little imagination, where the saw makes a cut deeper, looks like a little paw kind of over its mouth. Got a slice of that left to maybe stain it for a clock or something? Great work by the way.
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Sweet piece of work! I really like the leather carry straps on the ends. My only concern is that oak is a heavy wood, and with 3 coats of poly on it I can only imagine what the whole piece weighs. Are the straps for show or are they really functional?
Beautiful piece in any event. When build chests, they look like WW2 footlockers. :frown:
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Awesome! :rock
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True Craftsmanship VERY NICE................
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Sometimes it amazes me what can be created from such a large ordinary object (shown below) that most people overlook.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/000_0017.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/000_0018.jpg)
I built the hope chest below from the above pin oak tree that I had cut down at a friend's house a couple of years ago and had it air drying since. The bulk of the work was done in my very small (10x14) workshop located in the basement of my house. Finished with 3 coats of clear gloss polyurethane and Golden Oak stain.
It has been a great challenge and very rewarding now that is completed. The only plan I followed was the on that I had pictured in my head, which was altered many times to produce the finished product you see below. Honestly I am very amazed that it came out like it did since it is my first project of this size and detail.
Oh one more detail in case you were wondering, I cut that huge letter B from the same lumber and spent a couple of hours sanding to get it to look just right. My fingers are still raw. :D
This one was built for my 15 year old daughter as a Cristmas gift. My wife and I are very anxious to see the look on her face when she see it on Christmas Day. I do have another chest planned for a friend of mine from the same lumber and armed with the leasons learned from this one.
Anyway here is the closest thing to art that I am capable of.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4417.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4418.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4419.jpg)
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/100_4420.jpg)
Cheer up Dave! You look like you just watched a puppy die!
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I didn't notice the bear in the end grain until you said something, unfortunately everything that did not get cut into planks was burned up that winter.
The leather straps are functional and at 1/4 of an inch thick i would probably more concerned with the #7 brass screws holding the loops on breaking than the leather. At any rate though most of the movement that will take place with this chest will be rolling on the casters that are behind the trim pieces on the bottom. My wife and I picked it up by the straps to put it on the coffee table and there was not even a mark in the leather from the loops. In 20 years or so those straps will probably have to be replaced. These are actually straps made for lifting trunks/chests.
Baron I am smiling what are you talking about. :D Actually the expression you see is exhaustion. I had worked about 80 hours a week for the last 2 months plus working on this chest, a doll house, set of shower curtain rods, organizing the shop better, and doing side work. As much fun as this project was I am glad it is done though.
You guys are all too kind though and I appreciate all your comments. I am actually so proud of this piece that I stamped my name into it with an iron that my brother got for me years ago.