Customer's projects pictures thread

[logboy]

It never ceases to amaze me what people do with the slabs I sell. This first one was an invasive cork wood tree cut out of someones yard in town. I got it from a local tree guy.





Elm table.



Maple table.

[MSSawmill]

Do I count as a customer if all the lumber was given to me by other sawyers?

I finally got around to turning the rolling pin I was going to surprise my wife with last summer! It's walnut, cherry, maple, oak, and locust.


  

  

  

  

  

 

[tmarch]

GREAT work, but dang if she gets after you with it better be quick!!!!!!!!!! :D

[thecfarm]

I like that rolling pin!!!! My wife would REALLY like it.

[4x4American]

Awesome thread! 

MSSawmill, that rolling pin is awesome!

Yawl would laugh if you saw some of my rough cut projects...they're just that, rough!  but usually pretty tough.

[BCsaw]

Best rolling pin ever! :D

[Magicman]

Hey, I recognize some of that lumber!!  That is crazy pretty Charles.   

[hunz]

Started a portable job today for a customer I sold some locust lumber to a couple years back. Well come high noon, he HAD to show me what he built with the lumber I had sold him. After a 15 minute golf cart ride to the top of this mountain, we arrived at our destination.



 

The guy(Bob) is a total trip, and to be a small town OBGYN for 40 years, I'd say you'd have to be in order to keep patients! After our 45 minute golf cart journey, he insisted on taking me to Wendy's for lunch, so to Wendy's we went. After our bellies were full, we headed back to the car, when I read his license plate....."10npushn"; so of course I asked him what it meant. He replied "whenever I'd have a patient in labor at the hospital and they dialated to 10cm, the nurse would call me at home and say she's " 10npushn". He'd know it was time to hop in the car and head to the hospital. Maybe you had to be there, but it was a pretty good belly laugh. He also said he gave away a free pap smear every year at the church fundraiser auction....no one ever bid though he said, most likely too embarrassed!

[WDH]

Sounds like a really cool guy who enjoys life. 

[4x4American]

 :D  funny guy!

[bhall]

hunz I bet there is a really nice view from that bench. I have several benches at different spots on my land & I plan on putting roofs on them much like he did. I really like the bench, him & the dog, and the story, thanks. Bob

[Magicman]

What a guy, and a very nice relaxin' place too.

[tule peak timber]

What a nice place to be with man's best friend.......

[Jim_Rogers]

Back in post #54 of this thread, I showed some benches a lady landscaper's crew made out of some curved pine slabs I sold her.

Last October @UpInATree brought his long bar Alaskan chainsaw sawmill over and we cut some wide pine slabs to be used as table tops or bar tops.

Here is a shot of one of them right after we finished sawing it:



 

Today, I got to visit with the customer and saw what her worker had made from or out of the table tops she bought from me.
Here is a couple of finished tables.



  

The reddish one was suppose to have a "walnut" colored stain. Everyone thinks it's "too" red. It is tall and will be used like a "buffet table".

The other one has a clear oil finish and will have some matching benches not made yet. I was very happy with the results of these table, except for the "reddish" stain. Although it kind of does go with the red cedar log legs.



 



 

I know where these are going, to her customer; maybe some day I'll see them in place and get some photos of them there at the iFarm.

Jim Rogers

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

You knows you gots my attention Jim. Looks good! 

[WDH]

Those are unique and well done.

[Jim_Rogers]

So this older guy from the next town over came in yesterday, and he's the one who when I ask what's he looking for, he'll say, "I'll know it when I see it......"
I don't really mine him coming in as sometimes he buys something and when he does it's very unexpected.

Well, he took a hard look at the pile of 2 1/4"x 24" x 10' spalted maple table top slabs and found one he liked. So he bought it. And another small oak round edge slab some 5' long.

While he was here, he pulled out his photo booklet and showed me a picture of a table he made from a chunk of walnut left over from me sawing out some bowl blanks for the bowl turner who bowl I posted up at the beginning of this thread.
I considered this piece junk as it was all split up and cracked very bad.

Here is a picture of a picture of the table:



 

I hope you can see it alright.

Jim Rogers

[Jim_Rogers]

In the "what are you sawing" thread, I posted this picture of some timbers I cut up for a customer who was going to make it into a pergola for his mother's house.



 

Yesterday, he sent me some pictures of the finished project.

I thought I'd share those with you all, as I know you all like pictures.



 



 



 



 



 

Jim Rogers

[Magicman]

Wow Jim, that thing is huge.  It's always nice to see pictures of your lumber/timbers being used.   8)

[deadfall]

This thread shot most of an hour for me.  Not fair!

On the end-grain tile floor:  really cool that you can see the tiles were laid out in the order they were cut from the timbers.  Reads like a story. 

[WDH]

Jim,

He did a fine job on that pergola. 

[Bill Gaiche]

Nice, that is one strong built sucker for sure. bg

[Jim_Rogers]

I thought using 8x8's for braces was a little "over the top" but to each their own.

Jim Rogers

[JohnM]

I thought using 8x8's for braces was a little "over the top" but to each their own.

Jim Rogers

Agreed, it looks great and well built but too 'heavy' IMO.

[4x4American]

Not to come off like a butthead, but what's the point of a pergola?  Why not put some tin on top so when it rains you can hang out without getting wet!