Customer's projects pictures thread

[Don P]

@Jim_Rogers 
I recall you had a gristmill building project a year or two ago... I ran into a man today whose family mill had been disassembled and stored and is or has been installed in a park in a new mill building, Halifax VA. Long shot but I was wondering if they are the same.

I was at the county fair and an obvious grandfather and grandson walked by my mill and I had to stop them and get a pic, they were the perfect pair. We struck up a conversation and that was when he got into his roots. He had not run the water powered gristmill all that much, he had gravitated towards the water powered sawmill... so we talked some more.

[thecfarm]

I like the stools too!!

[Jim_Rogers]

@Jim_Rogers
I recall you had a gristmill building project a year or two ago... I ran into a man today whose family mill had been disassembled and stored and is or has been installed in a park in a new mill building, Halifax VA. Long shot but I was wondering if they are the same.

I was at the county fair and an obvious grandfather and grandson walked by my mill and I had to stop them and get a pic, they were the perfect pair. We struck up a conversation and that was when he got into his roots. He had not run the water powered gristmill all that much, he had gravitated towards the water powered sawmill... so we talked some more.

The mill building is at the fairgrounds in South Boston, I believe. You can visit it when they have the antique tractor show in May each year.



 

 
There is no stream or river there for the wheel to be powered. They told me that they were going to build a concrete tank and pump the same water from the tank to the wheel to make it spin. This iron wheel had a large gear around the rim of the wheel and a small gear on the shaft going into the mill building. I never saw it run, yet.
Jim Rogers

[Don P]

Well! I think we might have a match. South Boston is Halifax County. I'm pretty sure this is the gentleman and grandson who are from the family that donated the equipment for that building... I'm really regretting not getting contact info now. We were just 2 guys having a conversation at the fair. After he left my gears started turning.



Some friends stopped by as I was breaking down a few minutes ago and asked how I did. I said "I'm empty". "You sold everything?" "Weell, I know about half the people here and met some new friends". Needless to say this man went home with a bag of fresh cornmeal on the house.

[Nebraska]

 

 
This is the shelf made from the 
Red Cedar I sawed the other day. His great uncle planted the tree  and his son will install it in a bar.  

[longtime lurker]

Some more of that Turpentine decking as it came off the 4sider last week.  It gets the silvery colour in pictures because it's so fine grained it seems to reflect the light, but it'll go red/brown under a finish.


 

 
 We ran 1000 linear, pretty much all of it showing a ribbon grain depending on the angle you look from.  Be sawing the stuff for at least another year between framing orders, poor me

As I said to a guy... Straightness, squareness and finish quality I can take credit for, but colour and grain is above my pay grade.

Not really a customer project yet but I wanted to share some pics cuz it sure is something when you see it all dressed up 

[doc henderson]

 

 

 

he wanted it all.  wife doing a live edge bar top with epoxy between the individual boards.

[Resonator]

Repeat customer of mine sent some pics of charcuterie boards he's made, mostly from lumber I've cut.
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[Magicman]

You saw some very nice boards. 

[olcowhand]

My next door neighbor came by my booth at the big three-day Flea market I sell at every year. I take a bunch of slabs to sell as Project pieces, and he looked through them. He told me if I don't sell the Cherry Slabs, he'll give me my asking price.
I had added two "Next to the Pith" slabs of Cherry to these. As previously mentioned in these threads, smaller logs only get sawn using four total cuts. I saw the pith slab and the two slabs sandwiching the pith. In this case, I used the pith slab for my own River Project.
He bought them in May, and I saw them and some of his other stuff today. Wow.
The last two pics are the Charcuterie Boards he made with the Cherry Slabs (the middle one...). The rest are wood he procures elsewhere. Please zoom in to view the Coasters he makes using Petoskey Stone inserts, shaped like the Great State of Michigan.


 

 



 

 

Don is a retired Forester and some of the other stuff he's done is stunning.
I have a couple other Cherry logs that will soon be going on the mill, and asked him to come over and lend his opinion on a strategy for milling these....

[Larry]

I get lots of pictures from customers with some really cool stuff but today I got a picture of a simple table top that I thought was exceptional.  Had to share it with you guys.



Made by a young couple that have just started woodworking.  They normally bring me a yard tree log or two to saw and than dry in their solar kiln. Make nice charcuterie boards or similar type stuff.    They didn't have a big enough jointer or planer to surface these boards so they brought them back to me a couple months ago.  I didn't really think much about it when I processed them.

Finish is Rubio Monocoat.  Extra points if ya can tell me the species of wood.

[longtime lurker]

ummm.... Damson Plum?? Only thing that grows around here that looks like that.
Not from around here huh :D
Okay. I give up. Whatever it is it's very nice.

[tmbrcruiser]

Elm?

[Crusarius]

Looks like plywood

[Ljohnsaw]

Sasafrass?

[Hilltop366]

Looks like plywood

Thats what I was thinking too....but what kind of plywood? ;D

[Crusarius]

the over priced pine stuff from the box stores  SO I think that is called unobtanium pine?

[Larry]

Plywood out of the plywood tree I'm sure.

No its elm, and I even see things in the grain.  Frogman top center. :D

[Resonator]

The wife of one of my customer's is a teacher, and asked for some 1x4's for a project. I ran a few white pine boards I had handy through the planer to smooth them out, and her students decorated them as snowmen for the holidays. :snowman:

[Magicman]

A customer just sent me this picture of a Mustache Bench:


 
That was built from some Longleaf Pine slabs.

[Ianab]

Lil's cousin had been to the US on a cruise and bought back some cool cast coat hooks, and wanted to make a make a gift for  her Brother. Did I have a nice board they could make it with? Had a dig in the shed and found a piece of Port Orford Cedar that should do the job. She got a friend to plane and engrave it, turned out  pretty sweet. Will have the deer style hooks mounted on it, and it can go up in his man cave.

I owed him a favour as he had hooked me up with some Tasmanian Blackwood (Acacia) logs, so I was happy to supply the board.



 

[Crusarius]

I have done stuff like that very similar. One of my favorites was my my parents christmas present.

It was a family tree using birds and branches to symbolize the family. Turned out really nice.

[SawyerTed]

 While at a NYE Celebration at our Arts Council, I saw some of my customers' work. 

The cherry bowls are my son's work.

All from materials I cut. 



 

 

 

 

[longtime lurker]

 

 

Before, or at least early in the process.



 

 

After, or at least very close to finished.

Needless to say the customer is happy.

[thecfarm]

And I can see why!!!