Just waitin' on a friend

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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I had some time to kill while waitin' on a friend so I grabbed a piece of black walnut from the scrap/fire pile, (the scrap piece was from one of my trees in the back) and with the help of a jigsaw, drill press, Dremel, some DA paper and about an hour after sanding and oil rub this is what I got...

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There's always one ham in the room, silly kat. :)

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I have a 3 acre patch of woods on my property with some beech, oak and some other hardwoods so when I get a nice lookin' grain or maybe a piece of burl I love to mess around with it. I had a half a cord of Bass wood that I wound up burning for firewood but I saved about 20 nice size pieces for carving.

Thanks for the compliments, I have the other half of the same piece I may try to make a thinner handle profile for the KB 2 the next time I have some time to kill while waitin' on a friend. :)
 
Those turned out really nice. I'd say you're excellent with time management.
 
nicely done -- looks like more fun than I was having this evening.
 
I'm no carpenter, I can get by, I know how to measure, cut, nail, glue, screw any of the basic things a maintenance guy needs to do with natural building materials, hell I've built houses but I'm a much better fabricator, make it out of metal and I can build anything. My problem is that wood has personality, it has a soul when touched by the right hands. When it comes to wood, I'm a functional carpenter, now one of our own, Scott (Dopic1), he's an artist, he breaths life into a piece of wood, he adds a piece of his own soul to a piece of wood. He's the kinda guy who looks at a piece of wood and sees the beauty underneath. He knows exactly what to remove to expose the soul lurkin' just beneath the surface.

Scott's an artist when it comes to wood, when it comes to wood I'm a butcher with a lot of sandpaper. ;)

Thanks for the compliments folks, I'm gonna try another type of wood I have a few hardwoods in the yard to try out and I'll have to take a lot more time and see what kinda results I get. ;)
 
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