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Offline yip

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just couldn't wait!
« on: November 16, 2021, 02:15:06 AM »
   did some sanding with 220 grit and wet em down, just couldn't wait to see the curl, got at least two more times of sanding and raising the grain.


Offline Marcruger

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2021, 02:18:14 AM »
Gotta love curl.  Unless you carve like Ed Wenger or Jim Kibler, and then you might want some fairly plain wood.   :-D   God Bless,   Marc

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2021, 02:36:52 AM »
Gonna be sweet, Terry.
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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2021, 04:27:42 AM »
  hope you guys excuse the mess, didn't think it was that bad!

Offline Daniel Coats

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2021, 04:33:57 AM »
Man that's going to be great looking!
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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2021, 06:12:58 AM »
Yip,

Don't worry about the mess.  My Dad use to always say that a messy workbench was the sign of a busy worker.  And his corollary was, if you need something done, give it to a busy man...there is a reason he's busy !
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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2021, 05:56:08 PM »
Looks like my bench. Since I built my gunstocking horse, my benches have become pretty bad. I was just over to Allen Martins shop yesterday. His bench makes me look like a total mess. You could dang near eat off it. BJH
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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2021, 07:49:09 PM »
The progress so far looks like it'll be a very slender, petite Bucks County LR. Are you planning on an upper forestock molding or is it done but doesn't show? A forestock molding adds to the slender look. On most BCs it was just an incised line but I usually did a concave in relief molding. Is a Pbox planned.....a side opener isn't that difficult to make....it's just a lid and tells everyone that it's a BC. Looking forward to when it's completed .....Fred 

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2021, 08:46:21 PM »
Yip,

Don't worry about the mess.  My Dad use to always say that a messy workbench was the sign of a busy worker.  And his corollary was, if you need something done, give it to a busy man...there is a reason he's busy !

My Aunt used to say that "a messy desk is the sign of a "cluttered" mind". That was a very "negative" statement for her to make.





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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2021, 09:22:05 PM »
Nice looking piece of wood, yip. Can’t wait to see her finished.

Bob

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2021, 09:30:25 PM »
 Looking good, that barrel looks l o n g...

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2021, 06:32:43 PM »
  Fred; i hope i didn't disappoint ya i tryed like $#*! to get as close to a B/C but i had trouble of the get go. had trouble with the entry thimble and settled to a close to B/C, p/b is not a B/C but its in, if you enlarge the picture you'll see the fore arm molding. i'm gonna try harder on the next one.

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2021, 06:43:39 PM »
  Tim it's photograthic trickery that's all is, 44" Rice

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Re: just couldn't wait!
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2023, 11:12:28 PM »
daryl, that looks like my bench..... after i clean it!!!!!! ;)