Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

I got a barn find today. There was appeared to be a workbench top in an old barn i wanted. It turned out to be an 8'x2' Maple butcher block. Not segmented but all full length Maple top. Under another pile of rat shit is an 8'x30" top that has separated but in near perfect condition. I'll post up some pictures later. It was a good day!
 
This is not near the quality of items that some of you guys are turning out, but my wife decided our daughter needed her own room, so I was getting kicked out of my “home office”. I priced up having a backyard office shed delivered/ built, and after seeing the pricing I decided I would make it a weekend project. Started with digging footings and took it through final paint - I also decided to do all the framing by hand (admittedly not a lot of framing), so I got to see what it was like before framing nailers.

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millerkiller77 said:
I dont think so. I went and picked up another quart and it went on pretty nice . The first can had the consistency of warm molasses, the second can was much thinner and spread much easier. First can was probably old stock that had been on the shelf for too long.
Going to let it dry and router in the slots for
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I've had that issue on a couple things I bought at Lowes, old junk on the shelf too long. I also try to avoid the multi-use products too, they're a shortcut and I think the finish is never quite as good. The combo paint/primer everyone sells now is the same. Do stain, then do poly coat or epoxy or whatever you want on top.
 
Redmt said:
I got a barn find today. There was appeared to be a workbench top in an old barn i wanted. It turned out to be an 8'x2' Maple butcher block. Not segmented but all full length Maple top. Under another pile of rat shit is an 8'x30" top that has separated but in near perfect condition. I'll post up some pictures later. It was a good day!
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I finally got a start on the workbench rehab. I got the cabinet and top separated and cabinet squared up, support members milled flat and starting on the maple top. It's a little twisted and bowed. I made up some rails for my router sled and took the first pass over it. It may have another 1/16 " possibly more to go.IMG_20230828_112029691.jpgIMG_20230828_112053805.jpgIMG_20230828_112121109.jpg
 
Quick project involving bent wood and scraps. I'm planning on hunting with my dad's old recurve this season and I bought a 2-part quiver that straps onto the upper and lower limbs. But I was having trouble with the upper part sliding every time I put an arrow back in. SO I thought I would just connect the two parts, but I knew I needed to bend the wood and I had some scraps of poplar that were about 1/16" thick. With a scrap of 3/4" plywood and some epoxy it all came together.

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My company is top shelf in the DMV. I've been preserving period furniture for many years. What you see in the pic of pieces is what I had to work with to restore the center piece of the settee.
I do turn bowls, pot calls for gifts and collectors.
 

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Finally got around to putting some cherry on top of the half wall in front of our kitchen sink.
Bought some rough cut, planed it down and got it installed today. Wife is happy, honeydew list is caught up for the time being and now I've got time to shoot skeet on my day off. Win win for all.
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Quick-ish project. One of my dad's clients runs a portable sawmill and gave me a big rough cut beam that was too short for his use. We needed a mantle so I planed it down with an old Stanley hand plane that I restored a while back and filled the large crack with black epoxy, then stained and polyurethaned it. Turned out pretty decent, my wife likes it, now I just have to do the stone around it...

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LuketheDog said:
Quick-ish project. One of my dad's clients runs a portable sawmill and gave me a big rough cut beam that was too short for his use. We needed a mantle so I planed it down with an old Stanley hand plane that I restored a while back and filled the large crack with black epoxy, then stained and polyurethaned it. Turned out pretty decent, my wife likes it, now I just have to do the stone around it...

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Are you planning on a gas fireplace? Nice.
 
Got a little time on my days off this week to work on some more garage cabinets.
Carcass and face frame is together, as well as the doors and drawer boxes are ready for polyurethane.
Need to get some more poplar and glue some up for drawer fronts yet.
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