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Offline DC

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2014, 01:27:13 pm »
When you split something like that, does the split follow the grain nicely or dies it run off some?

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« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2014, 02:41:34 pm »
I have never split one as wild as that one but but it did have some run off to it. But not real bad.
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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2014, 03:01:19 pm »
Woo that's a challenging bit of timber. You are a braver man than me :laugh:
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« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2014, 03:13:59 pm »
Woo that's a challenging bit of timber. You are a braver man than me :laugh:
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I guarantee im not braver...........just to dumb to know when to quit :o
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Offline hunterbob

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2014, 03:15:54 pm »
Looks like a great challenge to take on. I have a snakey  one to tackle one day a lot like that one . and blackhawk has the sister.. Have fun with your build I will be watching.

Offline missilemaster

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2014, 06:40:46 pm »
That thing is going to blow for sure! Just send it to me to save you the heartbreak >:D
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Offline Will H

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2014, 09:13:22 pm »
That is lookin pretty good! Good luck! Hope to see it this spring!
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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2014, 05:51:17 pm »
I reduced limb thickness to where limbs are just starting to bend. I will get them bending more before i start on heat corrections. Still have several issues to keep an eye on.


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Offline Pat B

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2014, 05:58:39 pm »
Super glue!   ;)
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2014, 09:33:57 pm »
Woo that's a challenging bit of timber. You are a braver man than me :laugh:
Del

I guarantee im not braver...........just to dumb to know when to quit :o

I remember watching him work on this stave for half an hour.  He got about 8 linear inches of a ring chased before we had to drag him out from under Pappy's work bench where he was giggling and drooling on himself. 
Guns have triggers. Bicycles have wheels. Trees and bows have wooden limbs.

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2014, 09:51:04 pm »
Woo that's a challenging bit of timber. You are a braver man than me :laugh:
Del

I guarantee im not braver...........just to dumb to know when to quit :o

I remember watching him work on this stave for half an hour.  He got about 8 linear inches of a ring chased before we had to drag him out from under Pappy's work bench where he was giggling and drooling on himself.


Only thing i remember JW was when you snatched the draw knife away from me so you could have a go at it yourself :o >:D >:D
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Offline JW_Halverson

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« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2014, 09:52:46 pm »
Yeah, and then I took your place under that self same bench for a session of giggling and drooling!

I believe this is the stave that cured me of my fascination with "character" wood.
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« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2014, 11:12:29 pm »
Yeah, and then I took your place under that self same bench for a session of giggling and drooling!

I believe this is the stave that cured me of my fascination with "character" wood.

Your fooling yourself JW..........addicts cant be cured. >:D
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #28 on: November 24, 2014, 11:18:33 pm »
My therapist assures me I am recovering.
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Re: fence post progress
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2014, 12:11:17 am »
Therapists are often overly optimistic.
... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857