Watcha Makin'?

[tule peak timber]

The walnut saddle stumps are headed for a new home with the Granddaughter. I made them years ago for another Granddaughter and now they are going home with the youngest. Saddle up pardner...... 

[doc henderson]

Tule, I bet it is fun at your house.

I made a raised bed for my SIL that has been in and out of the hospital.  the new try is the finish, I tried the UV protected Australian timber oil.  Looked at the tung oil and Lowes only had a pint for 13 something.  the ATO was 55 a gallon.  when on with a pad applicator with an extension.  pretty fast.  we will see how it holds up.  ERC, 40 inches to the top.  she has trouble getting up off a floor or ground.  This ADA version will set in front of the concrete porch at her house.  Porch is about 2 foot tall, and the top of the bed can be accessed from the yard when planting and from the porch for harvest and watering.

[SwampDonkey]

What's the significance of a saddle stump? Never heard of one. Course I'm not a horse rancher either, so I'm missing a lot of context. 

[tule peak timber]

So, years ago we tried to get one of our granddaughters, who lived with us, interested in the cowboy/ranch lifestyle. We sent her to summer and winter cowboy camps and set up her room with all sorts of antique tack gear, buffalo skins, horse print pillows etc. The majority of these antiques I found shopping in stores in obscure parts of Montana. The walnut stump saddles are carved walnut stumps with old US Infantry saddles attached to the tops. Kind of cool to roll out of the bunks in the tack room and saddle up for breakfast in the mess hall downstairs. She and her grandmother spent hours playing cribbage whilst sitting in their saddles.

Now that that granddaughter has grown up and moved on, a new granddaughter through marriage has expressed an interest in horses so we are now putting her through the cowboy camps and the furniture, tack and cowboy "stuff" now moves on to her house and her future of roaming the range yelling giddy up! Hopefully she'll share this interest with her friends.

[SwampDonkey]

Interesting. I grew up around horses. But they weren't saddle horses, they were work horses for yarding wood. I never had a lot to do with them, my uncle had a pair of twins and he never worked them all that hard, more like pets. Dad had a horse in the 70's to yard with. I remember going to a farm and looking at some horses where he got it from. Another thing I remember, he and a neighbour were going to cut wood and yard with that horse. The neighbour's wife looks out the window and saw dad and neighbour pulling the sled, and the horse walking behind eating the hay off the sled. She said she never seen that before.   Dad soon got a skidder, could hop off at the end of the day and didn't have to feed it or harness it or shovel behind it. 

[aigheadish]

I started building our raised beds as well. I've got 2 10'x 2ish' panels, using extra steel barn siding, done, now need to connect them.  They look to be a huge improvement over what we had last year. Yours, doc, are prettier than mine will be.

[aigheadish]

Well, she sure ain't square, or a looker, but she was free and I think she'll hold dirt. We may just go with one more, slightly longer than this one.

[aigheadish]

On a much prettier note but not without some mistakes, I've finished my v2 putter! The golf season starts next Thursday, so I'll see how it goes. Hitting a ball, gently, across the shop floor feels nice, hopefully it feels nice on the green. 

Legally, I've probably messed up, as I think the shaft angle is a bit too shallow. I think it can't be any more than 80 degrees and it's probably between 75 and 80. I'm not a pro and I already play with cheater Ping Irons with wedge shaped grooves instead of square shaped grooves, I didn't know that was a thing when I bought
them. It also has not improved my golf game much.

The brass is fun to work with, it sands away beautifully. 

[Wlmedley]

Built a shaker style step stool out of reclaimed beams out from under my mothers old house back in January. Have been working on three more so my brother and two sisters could have one. Just verily had enough good boards to get them together and one is a little shorter than the others  but it couldn't be helped. Put last coat of finish on them today. Both of my sisters live in Virginia so I may take a little road trip before long. My brother lives close by. Glad to be finally finished. I'm ready to make something different.

[Old Greenhorn]

Those look really Slick Bill! Nice job!

[aigheadish]

I got the other garden box done yesterday and the garage floor made for a much nicer and more square build. It was also easier to have the whole box built and attaching the metal than it was to do it in panels like I did the first one. 

[Larry]

I seldom use round over edge profiles as they are boring. A profile that reflects light from a line will catch the viewers eye and they will take time to really look at the piece.

I wanted to do this profile for a entryway bench but didn't have the right shaper tooling and too lazy to grind a knife. My 80 year old Stanley #6 hand plane did the deed in a few minutes and it was fun!

[thecfarm]

Of course we like it!!!

[Magicman]

That bench is above and beyond!! 

[tule peak timber]

An in situ pic of a 3" thick end grain walnut table that I built for a guy a couple of years ago. So, he calls me up last night and wants one pretty much the same except 5' wide x 12' long and at the same 3" thick, with a shrunken steel band. I had to run around the yard all morning looking for material, test it and figure out how I am going to produce this in the next 3-4 months. My mission is cut out for me, should I choose to accept it.
The Wizard of Crap

[SwampDonkey]

Beautiful stuff. I see not far from the winery. 

[doc henderson]

I hear music playing in the background.  Did it self-destruct in 5 seconds?

Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* | Now Playing In Theaters

[doc henderson]

Getting lots done since I have slowed down.  We got the raised planter bed delivered and installed for my sister-in-law 45 minutes away.  It has been filled with soil and planted now.

[teakwood]

Doing 3x  1.5" thick countertops for a client, 20" wide, premium Teak



trial sitting for 2 teak wooden benches for my garden 

[Resonator]

Good idea on the trial set-up.  
When I built a custom breakfast "nook" for a couple a few years back, I built a mock up out of plywood for them to sit in. That way I could be sure the bench height was just right before I built it permanently out of maple. (If "she" was not happy, nobody was gonna be happy).

[teakwood]

Done 

[Wlmedley]

My son and DIL bought a house about 4 years ago and it has a large deck on the back which is approximately 12' off the ground. Previous owners hadn't taken very good care of it and I offered to help replace the floor and fix it up some. They live about 60 miles away and decided they would hire someone to do the job so I figured live and learn and didn't argue about it. Their neighbor recommended some guy and a couple fellows worked on it several days. They seemed pleased with the job and wanted me to come down and look at it. I wasn't impressed with the work but didn't want to say anything. The new floor looked pretty good but the guy didn't replace the railing and it wasn't safe especially with my 5 year old grandson running around out there. For what the guy charged the railing should have been replaced. I asked if it would be okay if I measured between the posts and made some new railing at my house and bought them down when completed and installed them. My DIL agreed with what I had in mind and my son said he would help me install them. I bought 100 black aluminum rods and treated 2x4's and made up 8 panels plus made the top rail out of 1x4" white oak which I planed and routed edges. It was a lot bigger job than I thought it would be but well worth it as I don't have to worry about my grandson going off the side. I hope I never run into the guy they hired as it probably wouldn't go well being he knew they had a small child and left without insuring the deck was safe for him to play on.[url="https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=3593]

[Resonator]

Working on building more sawhorses. They're like wood clamps, I can't seem to ever have enough. Built a simple jig out of pine to lay them out, same setup as used for building trusses. Used a cutoff 2x as a temporary spacer as I assembled the frames.

Made another jig out of a 2x10 with a cleat screwed to it at the angle I wanted to cut the long miter cut on the mill. Only thing had to watch the cutoff triangle piece, so it didn't go flying.

Finished horses, all made identical. I used the triangle pieces from the long angle cuts for gusset braces between the leg frames and main 2x. I made these 24" tall for stacking lumber on, same setup could be used for making taller horses.

[Ljohnsaw]

Very nice. I would nip the sharp tip off the foot of the legs. Reduces the likelihood of it splitting when / if the horse tips a little.

[doc henderson]

I agree they are great.  another idea (not that you asked) would be to knock the tip of the top of the legs back an inch and the brace and have a flat spot at the top.  then put a 2 x 4 across the top to give it more lateral stability.  more like and I beam or "T" beam.  not needed for sure.  the top 2 x 4 could be sacrificial and be changed. I have been thinking about some sawhorses for roller tables I have.  they came with legs but more for indoors, not getting bumped in wood debris.  bent the bracket for one leg already.

do they stack one on top of the other?  could trim the length back to make that happen maybe.  again, great design and they look like they are very sturdy.