Some old woodworking pics

[ronwoodcraft]

Sitting at home bored, and healing up after surgery. Looking through old pictures I had saved in photobucket. These are a few of a couple hundred stump tables I've made. Made from Western Juniper wood. It's a slow growing tree that grows in the high desert of central Oregon. These are about 400 years old.
The federal government has cut down thousands of acres of it claiming it saves water that the juniper trees take from the ground. I get permission to glean some of the unique pieces before they burn it.
The piece of granite I used on one of them was the only color I had at the time. It would have looked better with a lighter brown colored piece of granite.

I used a piece of black velvet, and a red blanket for a back ground, and available light from a window, with the camera on a tripod.

 

[Meadow]

Wow! Those are fantastic! And also look like they're from a fantasy. Good job!

 

[tamrock]

That's wonderful, Ron

 

[worldtalker]

Did you sand that at all?What type of finish?

NICE work dude!!


GOD Bless

Chris

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Did you sand that at all?What type of finish?

NICE work dude!!


GOD Bless

Chris

Thanks Chris, I do put a lot of work into these.

I went out to the shop yesterday and took these snapshots. Some raw wood I've had in there for about five years. (It was pressure washed when I first brought it home to remove bark, dirt and debris. Someday I'll work on this again. After scribing the bottom and tops to a flat level surface, I'll cut the flats using a chainsaw, grinder and belt sander. Then take the angle grinder and round off all the knobs, and the worst weathered wood. After that the boring job of sanding begins. I'll sand the whole thing completely beginning with 80 grit paper removing all grinder marks, then again with 150 grit, then 220 grit and finally finishing with 320 grit paper.
Finish with four coats of satin polyuerathane.

 

[Limitool]

Great job guy... They look GREAT! Very unique also. I really enjoy seeing this kind of work. I was just asked if I could make a giant set of detailed dominoes. Post some other work guy... Brad

 

[worldtalker]

Thanks Chris, I do put a lot of work into these.

I went out to the shop yesterday and took these snapshots. Some raw wood I've had in there for about five years. (It was pressure washed when I first brought it home to remove bark, dirt and debris. Someday I'll work on this again. After scribing the bottom and tops to a flat level surface, I'll cut the flats using a chainsaw, grinder and belt sander. Then take the angle grinder and round off all the knobs, and the worst weathered wood. After that the boring job of sanding begins. I'll sand the whole thing completely beginning with 80 grit paper removing all grinder marks, then again with 150 grit, then 220 grit and finally finishing with 320 grit paper.
Finish with four coats of satin polyuerathane.

80...150...220...320...that is a LOT of sanding Ron!

I always liked using this.

 

[ronwoodcraft]

80...150...220...320...that is a LOT of sanding Ron!

I always liked using this.

Yeah, that's good stuff. I have used it before.

 

[yakker]

Those are amazing. Thanks for sharing your work Yakker

 

[TJE]

Looks awesome/beautiful just what you used, as is! ...Nice work!

 

[Justice70]

Beautiful work

 

[texasred777]

Those are amazing, Ron. Really, really nice!

Worldtalker, I've been using some of this urethane mixed with a little gunstock stain and boiled linseed oil for some of the gunstocks that I have refinished. Lot of work, but can really be a nice finish when through. I traded a little Remington 12A, .22 pump rifle a few weeks ago that I bought at Red's Trading Post in Twin Falls, Idaho; the oldest trading post in the state. The guys working there had been using 0000 steel wool soaked in oil to try to get the rust off of it. The stocks were really bad. I'll have post the before and after some time. Oh, the little gun was manufactured in either February or March of 1936.

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Many Thanks to All for your input!!

I was just looking through my unorganized photobucket, and found a top picture of one of the stumps above.