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Dude, That Curved Tree is so Sweet!

 
#2 ·
Colorado State Forest Service Land Management Program

Scott takes you on a tour with a landowner and a Colorado State Forest Ranger as we talk about a very cool program sponsored by the CSFS designed to help land owners manage their forested land and connect them with resources and information vital to land management.

 
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Checker Board Coffee Table

I'm working on this coffee table as a wedding gift for my cousin and his wife-to-be. I'm a log furniture maker so there are a lot of techniques I haven't been introduced to until I started working with fellow Lumber Jock, Kris Williams. Kris makes fine rustic furniture so I've been quite fascinated by some of the ways he does things and decided to start playing around with some of it. Of course, I don't have all the machines Kris has so I require his help for a few things but most of this I'm able to do with minor tool purchases.

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Table legs and frame completed.

I started out just wanting to play around with the radius cutter on the router. I happened to have a couple of 4×4 aspen posts that I cut with our mill so I decided to make a kitchen table using the posts as legs. Once I had the legs made with nice 3/8" radius edges, I decided they were too boring so I tapered them using my joiner then re-edged them. Then I realized I didn't have enough material ready to use to build a kitchen table so I cut the legs short and changed the project to a coffee table. I proceeded to build the rest of the frame using pocket-hole joinery - something I do a little bit of for specific things but never to this extent.

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Checker Board section in glue-up.

I had tried once (and sort of failed) to do a butcher-block style glue up so I decided to give that another try since I had learned a few lessons the first time around. While I was running my little strips of wood through the planer I got the idea to add a checkerboard into the table. Perhaps this was another challenge I didn't need to add to my already challenging project but then I remembered that the whole point of making this table was to learn new things. So I moved forward with the checker board idea.

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4 sections of the table top in glue-up.

I glued up the table top in 7 different parts. The reason for this was so that I could run each part through my 12" planer to even out the strips. Then I took the parts to Kris to use his nice big table saw to cut them all square and to the appropriate size. Then I took the pieces home and glued them all together.

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Entire table top now in final glue-up.

It's still a work in progress so I'll add more pictures as the project reaches completion. As I built the table I started wondering what I would do with it when I was done. I don't like to sell my "learning experiences" as the quality doesn't usually represent my high standards. Plus, it doesn't really fit in with my portfolio. So I decided to give it to my cousin as a wedding gift. I hope they like it!

If you have any suggestions for me, please leave them! Thanks!
 

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#8 ·
Checker Board Coffee Table

I'm working on this coffee table as a wedding gift for my cousin and his wife-to-be. I'm a log furniture maker so there are a lot of techniques I haven't been introduced to until I started working with fellow Lumber Jock, Kris Williams. Kris makes fine rustic furniture so I've been quite fascinated by some of the ways he does things and decided to start playing around with some of it. Of course, I don't have all the machines Kris has so I require his help for a few things but most of this I'm able to do with minor tool purchases.

Wood Gas Machine Engineering Hardwood

Table legs and frame completed.

I started out just wanting to play around with the radius cutter on the router. I happened to have a couple of 4×4 aspen posts that I cut with our mill so I decided to make a kitchen table using the posts as legs. Once I had the legs made with nice 3/8" radius edges, I decided they were too boring so I tapered them using my joiner then re-edged them. Then I realized I didn't have enough material ready to use to build a kitchen table so I cut the legs short and changed the project to a coffee table. I proceeded to build the rest of the frame using pocket-hole joinery - something I do a little bit of for specific things but never to this extent.

Wood Motor vehicle Automotive exterior Bumper Gas

Checker Board section in glue-up.

I had tried once (and sort of failed) to do a butcher-block style glue up so I decided to give that another try since I had learned a few lessons the first time around. While I was running my little strips of wood through the planer I got the idea to add a checkerboard into the table. Perhaps this was another challenge I didn't need to add to my already challenging project but then I remembered that the whole point of making this table was to learn new things. So I moved forward with the checker board idea.

Wood Outdoor furniture Street furniture Flooring Wood stain

4 sections of the table top in glue-up.

I glued up the table top in 7 different parts. The reason for this was so that I could run each part through my 12" planer to even out the strips. Then I took the parts to Kris to use his nice big table saw to cut them all square and to the appropriate size. Then I took the pieces home and glued them all together.

Wood Wood stain Plank Hardwood Composite material

Entire table top now in final glue-up.

It's still a work in progress so I'll add more pictures as the project reaches completion. As I built the table I started wondering what I would do with it when I was done. I don't like to sell my "learning experiences" as the quality doesn't usually represent my high standards. Plus, it doesn't really fit in with my portfolio. So I decided to give it to my cousin as a wedding gift. I hope they like it!

If you have any suggestions for me, please leave them! Thanks!
I know, I'm sloppy with the glue. I need to work on that :) Clamps came off just fine. I'm shocked sometimes at how they snap right off every time without taking any of my project with them!
 

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#14 ·
Interesting to watch. The carving starts 6 minutes into the video, so impatient folks should skip ahead. I'm impressed that he can just start hacking away and it's magically a bear, no reference pictures or careful measurements.
 
#19 ·
I have a similar product, Eau De Fir. It has the intoxicating aroma of iron and pine pitch. My marketing strategy needs work though. I have been spritzing guys in the lumber isles. To my surprise not everyone enjoys this;]
Mayb its because to get up to "spritzing" consistency, Eau De Fir needs to be warmed to a mild 228 degrees Fahrenheit.

funny video man. keep em coming.
 
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Peyton Manning Chainsaw Carving

This silly story started Sunday evening when I was all jazzed up after watching my Broncos clinch their ticket to the Super Bowl! I decided I wanted to make a video for my YouTube channel that was Bronco related as a way of showing a little team spirit. So Monday morning I found a beetle kill pine log in our shop and decided I'd take a shot at chainsaw carving - something I've never done before but have wanted to try for a long time now. Using my 445 Husqvarna with a standard 18" bar, I decided to carve a bust of Peyton Manning. I filmed the process and edited the video the next day. After telling my parents what I was up to, my mom suggested I send the video to 9 News (our local NBC station). I didn't think they'd really be that interested especially since the carving is so bad (by trade standards) but I did it anyway.

I woke up Wednesday morning to an email from a producer with the parent company of the station telling me he was going to send it to 100 of their publications to be posted on websites such as USA Today. Flattered but still not believing the video would go far, I thanked him for letting me know and got started working on some barstools - business as usual.

Then, later that morning I got a call from 9 News asking if they could come out and interview me. This is how that conversation went (as I can best remember it):

9News: We want to ask you questions about your carving.
Me: We'll, there's not much to say, I'm not a carver, this was my first try.
9News: That's okay. Your video is great and we love that it's Bronco related.

So I agreed to the interview, hastily cleaned up my shop and strategically placed work pieces relating to my business around the shop in an attempt to milk a little exposure out of the deal. Who wouldn't? Camera man arrived. Asked me 3 questions - 2 relating to the carving and one about my business.

The interview aired that night during all three news programs. While it was a lot of fun to watch the story (I've never been on the news before), they only aired two lines from my interview, both relating to the carving. No mention of my company name or what specifically I do. They also posted my full video on their FB page but it wasn't linked to my YT channel so I received none of the traffic (and there was a lot). I know it sounds like I'm complaining. I'm seriously not. I can't be at all surprised that the only real story they were interested in was that some fan was showing his team spirit in a rather creative way. It's the nature of our news industry. And hey, at least I got to be the most famous Bronco fan in the country for about three days, right? And If people really are that interested in finding out more about me, I'm pretty easy to find on Google.

Here's the link to my video on YT:
 
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Hey, I saw that! I know someone famous now(ok,well, sorta) lol.

I did notice the shop and the pieces you had in the background did stand out nicely. So maybe some good leads will come from your new found celebrity.
 
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