Project by svenbecca | posted 02-13-2014 02:05 PM | 5105 views | 13 times favorited | 9 comments | ![]() |
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As gifts go, my family and friends get iPods, X-Boxes, PS3s, etc. I get pieces of wood. I get the better deal, I think. This board was one of those gifts. It is a spalted (and partially rotted) piece of pine from a tree that was uprooted during a pretty bad tornado in Alabama last year. It took about a month of soaking and building up with thinned polyurethane to make it hard enough to work with. Every day about three times per day I would soak it with poly and let it absorb into the soft wood. Then it took about a week or so to cure enough to work with. I know that this is a simple project, but it really is still not furniture worthy. Too much trouble for a rotten piece of wood, you might be saying. The wife wants, what the wife wants and a happy wife makes a happy husband (big smile).
Anyway, this is the final product. She was overjoyed when I hung it up last night with all of the tags done (another two days of cutting stencils and painting).
I cut vinyl decals as another hobby. The fonts are cut from vinyl and used as a stencil to paint the words. I used a 3/8 keyhole bit to cut two keyholes horizontally in the back at 16” centers to hang it.
Width – 27-1/2”
Height – 7-1/4” at the tallest point.
Tags – 1-1/2” diameter on 2” centers.
I am also trying to sell these on Etsy. I have a lot of interest, but no sales yet. It will come.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CornerstoneFlats
-- A carpenter takes an ugly, knotted, twisted piece of wood and makes something beautiful and pure from it. Jesus is a carpenter, I am a piece of wood.
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Brett
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#1 posted 02-13-2014 02:41 PM
Nice! I saw some of these that you had made earlier. I really like the lettering on this one. That sure is a lot of birthdays!
-- Hand Crafted by Brett Peterson John 3:16 http://www.TheCrookedNail.blogspot.com
49bill
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#2 posted 02-13-2014 03:19 PM
Nice work really like this Idea may have to copy it. Good job svenbecca
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#3 posted 02-13-2014 03:33 PM
That would be a nice plaque for every family to have. Congratulations.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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jim65
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#4 posted 02-13-2014 07:27 PM
Great idea, awesome family! You have to be proud to be a part of that!
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Northwest29
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#5 posted 02-13-2014 08:33 PM
What a great idea for those folks with a big bunch of birthdays to keep track of. Do you cut the vinyl by hand – looks pretty small?
-- Ron, Eugene, OR, "Curiosity is a terrible thing to waste."
BustedClock
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#6 posted 02-13-2014 10:01 PM
Hmm…
Just curious what’s special about February and May in your clan. Particularly May; an awful lot of February babies.
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svenbecca
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#7 posted 02-14-2014 04:38 AM
Northwest, I have a plotter that does the work for me.
BustedClock, No idea about Feb & May. Spring and Summer fun maybe. Who really knows.
-- A carpenter takes an ugly, knotted, twisted piece of wood and makes something beautiful and pure from it. Jesus is a carpenter, I am a piece of wood.
Richard
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#8 posted 02-15-2014 06:04 AM
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Fishinbo
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#9 posted 02-18-2014 05:49 PM
Great looking project! Like the look of the wood, has lots of character and you did beautiful artwork and pretty tags. I’m sure the whole family love it.
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