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Post by rdback on Sept 7, 2022 9:53:49 GMT -6
These canes are truly works of art woodeye . Absolutely beautiful.
You guys got more talent in your pinkie finger than I do in my whole body.
By the way woodeye, have I told ya I got a bad back? I think Heavyhitterokra does too. In fact, after seeing these, I think EVERYBODY here has a bad back! lol j/k
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Post by woodeye on Sept 7, 2022 16:33:36 GMT -6
Thank you, rdback. I sincerely appreciate your comments. I know you were joking, but I will keep all the bad backs in mind. If carving a walking stick can help out my afflicted fellow forum members, It's the least I can do. 
All I need is some time to get things set back up, I'm really anxious to start...
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Post by spike on Sept 7, 2022 21:39:55 GMT -6
heavyhitterokra . You should see the sad donkey I tried to carve. spike can tell you , it’s the saddest creature you ever saw. Animals are not my strength. I haven’t exactly figured out what my strength is, but animals aren’t it. I do ok on Owls, but they are hard to mess up which is why I carve them so often. OH GOSH GOLLY LIES!! I totally loved the sad donkey. Totally reminded me of Eeyore! |
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 8, 2022 6:08:44 GMT -6
heavyhitterokra . You should see the sad donkey I tried to carve. spike can tell you , it’s the saddest creature you ever saw. Animals are not my strength. I haven’t exactly figured out what my strength is, but animals aren’t it. I do ok on Owls, but they are hard to mess up which is why I carve them so often. OH GOSH GOLLY LIES!! I totally loved the sad donkey. Totally reminded me of Eeyore! See that, even your worst critic thinks you've got talent. And so do the rest of us. You guys are awesome! Now there's a compliment! That's one of the things I love about this site  |
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Post by woodeye on Sept 8, 2022 6:16:22 GMT -6
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Post by woodeye on Sept 9, 2022 7:50:32 GMT -6
Final steps added to OP... 
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Post by rdback on Sept 10, 2022 6:41:29 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 10, 2022 14:00:25 GMT -6
Woodeye,
I went back to page one and looked that step by step set of photos over again. Wow! That was beautiful! That quarter sawn sycamore has a very surprisingly intricate grain. I never would have guessed, as the only way I've ever seen sycamore was rough cut and flat sawn at the sawmill.
I used to trade labor a lot, back when I was younger. One time, I traded a day's labor, rolling logs with a cant hook and sawing lumber at a local sawmill, in exchange for a concrete finishing job for a slab I wanted poured. We ran about 600 board feet of of cedar that day, and enough sawn and planed sycamore to build a floor in a big loft.
When my day of labor trading finally paid off, the man who owned the sawmill poured and finished a concrete slab over at my house at no cost, then he formed, poured and finished two slabs for my Dad.
(My Dad's slab jobs were about 4 or 5 times bigger than mine). Dad was bad to sit around his house in the air conditioning, kicked back in his recliner, rather than helping his hired hands. I'm not that way. When I hire someone to help me, I do whatever I can to help out. If that person doesn't want help, I'll bring them iced tea, sandwiches, things like that.
When the man was done with my slab job, I gave him with two paper grocery bags full of Winesap apples. My Dad came by the house later that day to ask what the concrete finisher had charged me and I told him, "Two bags of apples."
What Dad said next was not repeatable, my Dad was known to cuss a blue streak at the drop of a hat. Because of that, he was a horror to work around, "Oh %$#&!" He said.
I said, "Nope, that's what we agreed on and that's what I paid him."
Dad said, "That's outrageous! He charged me $1,400.00!"
My youngest Son, at the time, John, piped up and said, "I'll bet you wish you had an apple tree, huh, Grandpa?"
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 10, 2022 19:30:23 GMT -6
woodeye, that nameplate looks just great, and those walking sticks are AMAZING! Thanks for posting pictures.
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Post by rdback on Mar 11, 2024 8:55:09 GMT -6
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Post by woodeye on Mar 12, 2024 5:45:10 GMT -6
Thanks for the pictures, Rick. Those are some awesome sticks for sure. I've am completely out of viable excuses, I have yet to get my carving vice set up so I can get started on walking sticks again. I still plan to get to them, but I'm going to have to use a different room for the carving vice, I've completely ran out of room for it in the shop. I can blame that on the wood lathe I installed in there last September...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Mar 14, 2024 8:16:17 GMT -6
Woodeye,
It sounds like it's time to build a tin shanty. That's what my place here looks like, little tin lean-tos added onto every structure, just so I can put some sort of extra tool or scrap of lumber under a new roof. If I live long enough it'll look like Villa Miseria around here.
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Post by woodeye on Mar 14, 2024 15:19:00 GMT -6
I totally agree, heavyhitterokra. I would install the vice in this room if it wasn't already a lumber storage room...🤔
There are now approximately 150 hardwood boards in the stack. Probably about 300 board feet.
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