Having been blessed with some large logs from our giant redwood, I've a question out there for you all: What can we do with it? We are going to make wreaths from the boughs, and we are open to other ideas for the wood/bark.
In related news, I'm trying, again, to make a bow. Here's what I'll be working with:
Having never successfully made a bow, I hold no illusions. But, I'll try - and I'll keep you all posted.
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My father and I made a rocking chair, a chest of drawers, and a bed frame from some cherry wood trees we cut down on our farm when I was a boy. He was gifted with tools and patient with instruction. My wife rocks our daughter to sleep in the chair every night and we sleep in the bed.
The best marital advice I can give: never buy a bed larger than a double.
If you haven't already, get the wood to a drying room post haste and then stacked properly if you plan on making furniture from it.
See, now that's the kind of optimistic, over-the-top kind of suggestion that will have me curled up in the fetal position, sucking my thumb...
I'm not that good, I don't have the tools or space. However, it is a great, wonderful story, and something I am shooting for over time.
By the way, thanks for stopping in! I like your blog, too.
Josh, if you have some tool which will allow you to rip the redwood down the middle, you could use it as boards for a planter box.
And very excited about the board bow. What wood do you have this time?
Mr. Fashion House, that's a good idea! I can rip the wood with my bandsaw (it's a 10" Ryobi table saw, the floor model at Lowe's, and it didn't have all the parts with it). They won't be straight cuts, since I cannot yet afford to buy the pieces to tune that saw yet, but that'll be okay.
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