Just a Slab

[Magicman]

My woodworking days are behind me for several reasons, but when a Daughter asks.....I respond.  She has reworked her kitchen and wanted to get rid of the track lights above the countertop and I have had a Tulip Poplar kinda one live edge slab for many years with nothing to do with it so.....


 
I laid it across the saw horses and finished out that 'live edge' on the left side.  Of course it was twisted a bit so opposite corners on the reverse side got a bit of hand power planer adjusting.


  
It got shortened to the proper length and holes bored for the two light fixtures.  It also got the 'live edge' treatment on both ends.  ;D


 
Next, I used the router and chase a channel for the power wires to connect to the existing box which was in the center.  You can see where the opposite corners got scrubbed to make the top flat.


 
I love Minwax Special Walnut stain.


 
Soooo, with a Grandson's help we got-r-hung before the Daughter got home.  BTW, that is one of my Pecan Clocks in the background, but that was another time.


 
Another view. 

[metalspinner]

I can't wait to have daughters (in-law) one day.

Great job, magicman!

[Jeff]

Luvit

[YellowHammer]

Sweet.  Nice job.

[Downstream]

Great idea and nice job.

[SwampDonkey]

Looks great. An accent to the kitchen. 8)

[samandothers]

That really looks nice!  Great job.  How did you mount it to the ceiling?

[Crusarius]

That looks great. I may have to steel that idea in my kitchen.

[WDH]

Love the way you sculpted the ends.  

[doc henderson]

looks fantastic.  I am surprised @WV Sawmiller did not have you put it back on the mill.  

[Ljohnsaw]

MM, looks great.  Love that stain.  You're gonna give @tule peak timber a run for his money!

[Andries]

Sheesh, for a guy who says that his "woodworking days are behind him", you still do some pretty fine work! 
I'm with Sam and others, how did you attach it to the ceiling?

[WDH]

He did it with magic. 

[Magicman]

Two 3" screws under each escutcheon.

Now I have a slight 'problem'.  Notice the identical light fixture over the kitchen sink in the background in the second picture.  Now notice...


 
That I have this 15" end piece that would make a similar ceiling piece for that light. 


 
As with the other piece, this one also has PPB holes so it is taking it's turn in front of the fireplace insert to raise the temperature and kill whatever is inside.

This will probably be an 'after Christmas' project.  No rush because the Daughter doesn't know about it.

[WDH]

You could cut it into 1" chunks and make some PPB stew.  Ms Pat could make some mighty delicious cornbread to go with it.  Just a thought......

No, bad plan.  Your daughter would get wind of it and be agitated.  You don't want to cause undue agitation.   But then again, you already know that having been married for the better part of a century .  

[Magicman]

Why did eating PPB Stew make me think of this song:

Rainbow Stew - Merle Haggard - YouTube

There is also a powerful message hidden in that song.

[Old Greenhorn]

......  But then again, you already know that having been married for the better part of a century .  

Only Lynn can sy for sure if it was "The better Part" of a century, but he may decline to answer that on the grounds it might get him kilt. :D ;D

[WV Sawmiller]

looks fantastic.  I am surprised @WV Sawmiller did not have you put it back on the mill.  

That don't even make no sense? ???

Here I am being viciously maligned again and I never said a word. There just ain't no justice in this world. ;)

[Stephen1]

Very Nice!

[doc henderson]

Howard, I did not think you had ever not said anything.  If you put it on the mill, and it is maligned, it will be crooked!  

[WV Sawmiller]

 >:( >:( >:( :

[beenthere]

looks fantastic.  I am surprised @WV Sawmiller did not have you put it back on the mill.  

That don't even make no sense? ???

Here I am being viciously maligned again and I never said a word. There just ain't no justice in this world. ;)

Howard is saying it makes sense..  or did he mean "makes no sense".   ??? ;)

[doc henderson]

yes, a West Virginia double negative.  not sure.

[Old Greenhorn]

yes, a West Virginia double negative.  not sure.

I believe Howard was just a little flustered in the moment. Although he has pointed to my lack of learning up in the southern ways, I believe the proper thing to say would be "That ain't no part of nothin' ".

[Magicman]

Nope, it actually might or might not be; "That ain't never no part of nothing neither." 

[doc henderson]

As a ward secretary used to ask me, "hey baby, which is it whats yo thing"!

[doc henderson]

A Mississippi quadruple negative.  leave it to magic man.

[WV Sawmiller]

  I ain't hardly never saw nothing no ways near as much trouble as all these complaints about a comment or suggestion I never made no how. :D

[WDH]

You just ain't saying no about givin' in to such scandalous treatment.  

[WV Sawmiller]

Lynn,

   Regarding your magic message in Merle Haggard's song I keep wondering if it is the line about "You don't have to get high to get happy" or the one about "When a president walks through the White House door and does what he says he'll do.." I figure both are very true. ;)

[WDH]

I figured it was the "free bubble-up".  I bet that there are only a few here who even know what bubble-up is?

[WV Sawmiller]

Danny,

   You can't just leave us all on the edge of our seats this way! If it is not the old fashioned sody water brand that used to be popular in the southern area (the cultured part) of the USA, I am afraid it may some sort of "wobble-water" sold in back alleys and behind locked doors and such. Please enlighten us before we stroke out from the strain and worry. ;)

[WDH]

Old fashioned lemon lime sody water.  No "wobble" in it unless you add some Texas Ranger Stump Water.  I am sure it has been done in Georgia and Texas.  

When I had Texas Ranger stump water with the Texas Ranger in Livingston, Texas, they weren't no bubble up in it though.  

[Texas Ranger]

Friends are always welcome to sample some east Texas stump water.  First ones on me.

[kantuckid]

I figured it was the "free bubble-up".  I bet that there are only a few here who even know what bubble-up is?

We had Bubble-Up in KS back when. 
As for using negatives in speech patterns I've become a victim of using double negatives as common here in E KY, not so much the triple/quadruple bastardizations of English.  :D 
The only southern speech that is unintelligible for me is the coastal South Carolina Gullah speech and some hard core Coonass Cajuns speakers, I'll give up trying.  
A lazy way to mount heavy stuff to a ceiling is floor jacks. The 12' plus faux beams I made for my DIL, their bathroom contractor mounted those 6 beams that means. Fastened 2x blocks to ceiling than side screws into 2x blocks. 
Those are neat lights. We have a similar shade thats larger and the bulbs we like are the globe bulbs which are hard to find in larger sizes. They soften glare as do those edison bulbs. 

[WV Sawmiller]

Kantuk,

   A heavy Scottish brogue was always the hardest for me to understand. Some Irish would require me to have them repeat what they just said too.