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I made this guitar out of a piece of cherry from a tree that fell in my father in law's back yard. I always liked the gibson EB0 body, so I just copied it. The neck I purchased from Warmoth, it's roasted maple.  As it dried it split, so I poured some epoxy with a blue fleck in it to fill the crack. 
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Nov 19, 2019 16:47
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AFewBricksShy posted:I made this guitar out of a piece of cherry from a tree that fell in my father in law's back yard. You're missing two strings on your "guitar"
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Nov 19, 2019 17:59
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Autistic Edgy Guy posted:big wood, big life I want that log. I don't even know what the gently caress I'd do with it, but I want it.
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Nov 19, 2019 18:03
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Pickwick High posted:You're missing two strings on your "guitar" I made up for it by making the neck longer.
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Nov 19, 2019 18:36
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Honky Dong Country posted:Anybody made some furniture or done other cool things with their wood?  I posted a thread about making bows a long time ago in DIY, these two I made for my kids when they were little, made of soft maple boards I got at Menards lol. I've probably made 35 or so, been a few years since I finished one, I've had lots of other things I've had to put first the last few years. Making bows is fairly easy, if you're interested I suggest checking out the "Traditional Bowyer's Bible" series of books, there are 4 or 5 volumes, the first one is enough to get you going. Making wooden arrows from scratch is muuuch more work than making bows imo, I just buy arrow shafting that's already cut and checked for spine and all I do is put a finish on them and put fletching, nocks and points on.
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Nov 19, 2019 18:39
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Myron Baloney posted:
drat those look cool.
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Nov 19, 2019 18:50
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I've been thinking about taking woodworking classes forever and never do. I live in the city, don't have much room for all the supplies and what would I even do with that knowledge?? Then I end up watching woodworking/furniture restauration on YouTube and think 'what if....'
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Nov 19, 2019 18:51
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Zippy the Bummer posted:I was shooting the poo poo with my neighbor and asked him about what one could do with Locust wood. Apparently it makes good "rustic style" furniture, and good durable floorboards, that sort of thing. But, not very good for carving / sculpting. It is, as I suspected, one of the hardest woods when properly cured, but doesn't get thick enough to make planks. Just wanted to follow up on that. Black Locust isn't a huge tree but there is some cutting for lumber in the US, and due to its sustainability and rot/insect resistance interest in it is growing. I've seen small tabletops and benches made from one board. It is indeed very hard and durable, and rot resistant as heck. Its grain is pretty, kind of coarse sort of like Elm or Red Elm so I can see how "rustic" might be applied to it. The big strike against it is that it's a bitch to dry without ruining it, or else I think it would sell really well as flooring and decking. Honey Locust is both a smaller tree and inferior as wood - although it is very pretty. Specialty hardwood suppliers often have both, but Honey Locust is probably mostly available as smallish blocks for turning and so on rather than dimensional lumber. I have a black locust bow somewhere, it makes very fine bows.
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Nov 19, 2019 19:09
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Still trying to figure out what veneer's good for. Invisible lamps?  Just making good wood-related purchasing decisions all around lately  shut up blegum posted:I've been thinking about taking woodworking classes forever and never do. I live in the city, don't have much room for all the supplies and what would I even do with that knowledge?? what city
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Nov 19, 2019 19:29
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:what city A small city in Europe, you probably haven't heard of it 
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Nov 19, 2019 21:07
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ok have fun with that there's co-op woodworking spaces in basically every urban area, they're how most people who don't own a mansion make anything. I've been making a passable side business out of CNC machined furniture but only actually own a drill press at home. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Nov 19, 2019 |
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Nov 19, 2019 21:37
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:ok have fun with that My dream "when I'm an old dude" job is running a tool-library/co-op. I love my shop to death but would love to spend time working with other craftspeople in a big ol' space with like lathes and industrial sized scroll saws.
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Nov 19, 2019 21:42
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:ok have fun with that Yeah, I looked into that too. But I don't know, I have the feeling that everyone there knows what they're doing and I would just use it to gently caress around once and a while.
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Nov 19, 2019 21:53
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some of em are more formal and restrictive than others, my current one lets any old schmucko walk right in from the street and shove a nailboard in the table saw, or use the absolutely terrifying 70-year-old shaper with no safeties, and somehow has not undergone any disaster worse than ruined blades yet.
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Nov 19, 2019 22:01
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The mayor of Louisville floated the idea of adding a tool library to the city's library a couple of years ago but then he never followed through  We're in a budget crisis now but we weren't when he proposed it! 
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Nov 20, 2019 00:17
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Myron Baloney posted:Black Locust isn't a huge tree but there is some cutting for lumber in the US, and due to its sustainability and rot/insect resistance interest in it is growing. I've seen small tabletops and benches made from one board. It is indeed very hard and durable, and rot resistant as heck. Its grain is pretty, kind of coarse sort of like Elm or Red Elm so I can see how "rustic" might be applied to it. The big strike against it is that it's a bitch to dry without ruining it, or else I think it would sell really well as flooring and decking. Honey Locust is both a smaller tree and inferior as wood - although it is very pretty. Specialty hardwood suppliers often have both, but Honey Locust is probably mostly available as smallish blocks for turning and so on rather than dimensional lumber. Black locusts also own because they've got thorns that can puncture tractor tires 
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Nov 20, 2019 00:29
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This is a section of Huon Pine recovered from the Gordon river in Tasmania. It's a gnarly old bit of a limb that could have been in the river for hundreds of years as it is very impervious to rot. It's one of the better boat building timbers. Huons are some of the longest lived organisms on the planet and large specimens are very rare and protected. Even recovering fallen timber is strictly controlled and this bit was bought from a licensed collector. Its full of really aromatic resin and has a beautiful color and grain. I'm going to slice it up into drink coasters and maybe a small box.
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Nov 20, 2019 01:10
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it's great that locust wood can be stuck into the ground with zero worries about it instantly turning to mush, but you'll still have a devil of a time hammering a u-nail into it while putting up your wire be prepared to shout profanity a lot when using locust posts ^^^^^ edit that is a handsome specimen
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Nov 20, 2019 01:18
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Do silk floss trees count for wood?  
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Nov 20, 2019 01:26
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Wtf that is not a real tree
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Nov 20, 2019 01:32
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Colonel Cancer posted:Wtf that is not a real tree Yes it is. Chorisia speciosa.     And they are as pretty as their wood is as thorny 
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Nov 20, 2019 01:58
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beautiful fuckin' tree right there.
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Nov 20, 2019 02:26
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 Maple is cool.
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Nov 20, 2019 02:27
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Good thread op! I go through a lot of firewood and so does my family and friends, so years ago I kind of got into scavenging wood and splitting it up. Nowadays people text me when they spot curb wood and I go pick it up, stack it by type and dry it out for splitting. It's a hell of a good workout! Nice mixed hardwood & pine firewood is damned expensive if you buy it too. There's a great sense of satisfaction to hauling home a bunch of nice wood that otherwise would have gone to a chipper or a landfill. My folks also recently suffered a bad garage fire and lost a big old deodar cedar that was next to the garage. I talked to the arborist crew and they cut me several thick cookies from the base and the top, so I sealed the faces and stickered it to sit for ageing. Hoping to get at least once nice peice to turn into a live-edge coffee table for my parents as a sort of commemorative thing. Also pictured is a thinner and very elaborate slab of live oak I came across somewhere else:   Free wood is cool and good 
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Nov 20, 2019 03:32
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EorayMel posted:Yes it is. Chorisia speciosa. What about their actual wood though? Show us some furniture or something or is it only good for burning?
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Nov 21, 2019 18:57
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Honky Dong Country posted:What about their actual wood though? Show us some furniture or something or is it only good for burning? The cotton inside the capsules, although not of as good quality as that of the kapok tree, has been used as stuffing (density = 0.27 g/cm³). The wood can be used to make canoes, as wood pulp, and to make paper. The bark has been used to make ropes. From the seeds it is possible to obtain vegetable oil (both edible and industrially useful).     
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Nov 21, 2019 19:45
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The guy we got our firewood from this year turned out to be a massive shitbag and ripped us off. The price would have been way too high if he'd actually delivered. In the end we were supposed to get 3 cord buy after chopping and stacking it's closer to 2 cord and its also wetter than it should be. Said he'd top it up and make it right before ghosting as soon as he had our money. Basically there's a 90% chance that someone who sells firewood is a piece of poo poo. This makes sense because most people who collect and sell firewood are wasters who can't hold down a real job.
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Nov 21, 2019 19:58
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Outrail posted:Basically there's a 90% chance that someone who sells firewood is a piece of poo poo. This makes sense because most people who collect and sell firewood are wasters who can't hold down a real job. On the other hand I love the people that have the little firewood kiosks at the end of their driveways around camping areas. Put $5 in the little lock box and then take a stack. It's completely based on the honor system but it works out perfectly.
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Nov 21, 2019 20:11
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EorayMel posted:The cotton inside the capsules, although not of as good quality as that of the kapok tree, has been used as stuffing (density = 0.27 g/cm³). The wood can be used to make canoes, as wood pulp, and to make paper. The bark has been used to make ropes. From the seeds it is possible to obtain vegetable oil (both edible and industrially useful). drat that actually looks pretty cool even with the split. Outrail posted:The guy we got our firewood from this year turned out to be a massive shitbag and ripped us off. The price would have been way too high if he'd actually delivered. In the end we were supposed to get 3 cord buy after chopping and stacking it's closer to 2 cord and its also wetter than it should be. Said he'd top it up and make it right before ghosting as soon as he had our money. Always find a firewood guy that's recommended by a bunch of people. I'm sure there's shitbags but I know in my town there's several that a shitload of people use without problems.
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Nov 22, 2019 02:56
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Honky Dong Country posted:drat that actually looks pretty cool even with the split. Yeah, for some reason the regulars weren't selling this year and I had to go with Fuckwit McGee. Outrail is buying himself a chainsaw for Christmas, cutting my own is better than dealing with this poo poo every year.
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Nov 23, 2019 03:41
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every morning i wake up with a boner
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Nov 23, 2019 03:55
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man gently caress locust trees we call two entirely different trees "locust" (black vs honey) but they're completely different species. which makes googling specific woodworking examples of them really hard to do and will lead you lots of forums of old guys arguing back and forth about which type is in their yard. "black locust" is beautiful and has thorns more like a rose. the thorns and the leaves are toxic, as a bonus! yay! wiki has a decent picture of a lattice-like railing made from this stuff, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia "honey locust" is actually not at all toxic. hooray! the pods can even be livestock feed in a pinch. except "honey locust" is also "that goddamn tree":  bane of my existence growing up in the ozarks, second only to goatshead burrs around albuquerque
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