Todays Project - What did you do today?

[dallen]

lot of hammer handles hiding in that log

[stevec]

Greg did you count the rings? Just curious.

Here's a little liquor cabinet I made from ash. I stained it trying to get a "Mission Oak" look, I think I succeeded.
   
The upper right hand corner of the left hand door has opened up a bit due to the wild swings of humidity here from winter heating to summer rains. I'll have to see if I can inject some glue and draw it back together with a pipe clamp.
Gee, sorry guys, I must have renamed it and thought I was done. Or maybe Greg is right I think I opened the doors and while contemplating an open door pic I might have tried to reduce the "clutter" inside.

[Rickabilly]

(09-26-2012, 04:09 PM)stevec Wrote: Greg did you count the rings? Just curious.

Here's a little liquor cabinet I made from ash. I stained it trying to get a "Mission Oak" look, I think I succeeded.

Sorry Steve,
I can't see the picture, can anyone else see it?
Rick

[EdK]

I can't see a picture either. I think Steve might have had emptied the cabinet prior to posting his message.

I'd like to see that cabinet. Oak is one of my most favorite woods, and especially Mission Stained oak.

Ed

[Rickabilly]

Either that or he polished that stain so well that he's polished it away completely

Sorry Steve, it looks like you might not have posted photo, but I for one would really like to see it,

Regards
Rick

[f350ca]

Steve, of course I had to count the rings, 87 years old. He emptied the cabinet, only explanation for the picture. For some reason my phone isn't uploading my pictures so no daylight shots. Was the full of the tractor to lift the butt log. Looks like the bottom two logs are veneer grade. The four logs scaled out at 750 board feet. Still shingling the walls of the drying shed, get that done and we'll try sawing these babies.
Got the phone working.
Here's a shot with Saddie for perspective.


These are the top ends of the logs, smallest measured 20 inches. Still have to get the logs from above the crotch.

[SnailPowered]

Look at those twigs

[EdK]

Those are some nice, solid logs. They'll make some gorgeous lumber.

Ed

[Rickabilly]

I would have thought Ash was far slower growing than that, 87 years isn't really that long to grow a tree of that size. Of the logs we see in that last shot, 7 of them at 8 feet long, that's 56 feet of "Log" so how tall was the whole thing? it must have been 75 feet plus?

Rick

[stevec]

Guys, I've edited the post and the pic is there now as well as a little 'splanashun.
Greg, 87 years, thanks . I think the first Oak I took off our front lawn here in NS was 96 years, made me wonder what I'd done!