Spanky Posted December 30, 2018 Report Share Posted December 30, 2018 If you want some pretty walnut get some mineral stained walnut with all the colors in it. But it want be cheap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyoak Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 Spanky, why not provide the salts to the walnut trees not near cows? Bmac, Magnificent work. You should have front row seats for a long time. Now if you do the other 5, your spiritual legacy would last as long as the church stands! Certainly enormous praise from fellow members...Your gift is far better than money...Well done. I will enjoy seeing the maple pieces...What wood will the other 5 be made of? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanky Posted December 31, 2018 Report Share Posted December 31, 2018 3 hours ago, curlyoak said: Spanky, why not provide the salts to the walnut trees not near cows? It takes years for that to happened. The cows eat the salt lay in the shade in the summer months under the trees. They get up what’s the first thing they do pee. If you want to kill a tree buy you 25 pounds of salt pour it around the base of the tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmac Posted January 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 18 hours ago, curlyoak said: Bmac, Magnificent work. You should have front row seats for a long time. Now if you do the other 5, your spiritual legacy would last as long as the church stands! Certainly enormous praise from fellow members...Your gift is far better than money...Well done. I will enjoy seeing the maple pieces...What wood will the other 5 be made of? Thanks for the compliment. You crack me up, you got me building all 8 tomorrow. I think I need to take a break from these pieces once I'm done with the next two, they are kicking my butt. I'll come back to these and do more in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanky Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Bmac said: You crack me up, you got me building all 8 tomorrow Speedy Gonzales the fastest woodworker on the east coast! Wait he was the fastest mouse in all Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyoak Posted January 1, 2019 Report Share Posted January 1, 2019 4 hours ago, Bmac said: You crack me up, you got me building all 8 tomorrow. It was intended to be humorous. How about a pledge to the church to build the rest. It wouldn't be right if another woodworker finished the job. I would think the next 5 would be a little easier now that you have done 3... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bmac Posted January 13, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 Man I've been busy, and not in a good way. But I finally finished off the the other 2 stands. Let me start with the top parts of the last 2 stands. For these stands I'm using cherry, but i didn't have the cut off pieces to work with for making a ledge at the bottom of the top. So after a lot of trial and error I came up with using 3 smaller pieces, spot glued to form a ledge. This should not affect wood movement in the top. Clamping the pieces was tricky, but blue tape did the trick and also prevented glue squeeze out. So after I figured out that part it was follow the same steps to putting them together and then a lot of work applying the finish. Here the final product, I'm pleased with the result; I got some nice figure for the tops, all resawn wood from thicker pieces, I worked to get the best grain match on the side that would face out, not the surface the speaker or musician would see; Stand 1; Stand 2: From another angle; Final pic; Time to wrap up this journal, thanks for following along. I will say these pieces were a real challenge and took a lot of hand shaping to complete. They were fun to make, but since I'm not a musician I think I would have had more fun making sculptured chairs. But never the less, I was super happy with how they turned out and I learned some things during the process. That's a success to me. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 Those look great! Any idea how much they weigh? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyoak Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 Your church members will be very happy! I like your book matching and favoring the audience is the only answer. From start to finish this has been fun to watch. Great execution. Thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmac Posted January 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 41 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said: Those look great! Any idea how much they weigh? They have some weight to them, and the maple stands are heavier that the walnut. I'm not great at estimating weights, but I'd say 12-15 pds. Does that sound reasonable? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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