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While cutting some wood for some potpourri boxes I ended up with a 4″ x 36″ piece of 1/8″ cherry.  This board ended up in a 6-high stack of cherry, which in turn became a bunch of butterflies. I was able to put 9 of the regular butterflies (3 sets of 3) on the blank, [...]

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Today’s project (besides cutting out one wolf and messing up a second) was the Little Princess Clock. Since I’ve got that truckload of cherry, I’ve been making the clocks out of the cherry. Not only is it “there”, but scraps from one project are readily available for the next. The first picture is the stack [...]

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I cut out three animal puzzles, then I went down and started cutting cherry.  I got the blanks pretty much all cut out for a pair of Wilderness Clocks and Little Sweetheart Clocks, all 4 in cherry. Still need to cut the back piece for the Wilderness Clocks, and the fancy gable piece for the [...]

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Here is the load of wood I purchased at Willis Lumber on Friday.  My sassafras stash was stating to get down.  There should have been enough to get me into summer, but they had a sale on sassafras @ $1.50/bdft.  They also had cherry at the same price.  The boards where shorter in length (6-7′ [...]

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This is Jenny’s big semester: two course each at two different colleges 140 miles apart. But we’ve got to do what we have to in order to get graduated.  Anyway, that means I’ll be cutting back on the saw to help her out. This is the slow season, so it’s not that bad, and it’s [...]

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Took most of the day, but I got the cherry Galena clock finished.  The actual assembly didn’t take too long, it was the spray lacquer, along with the thought-process.  I hadn’t made one of these in at least 2 years, so I spent quite a bit of time determining the order in which the pieces [...]

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I had an order off my old web site for a cherry Galena clock.  I haven’t made any of these in 2-3 years, but it wasn’t hard to cut out.  A project like this takes a different cutting style than animal puzzles or butterflies.  These, you’re trying to get the object cut fast, and for [...]

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Not much on the saw today, as I spent most of the day cleaning up around the house and scanning in lots of documents. I did get one of the cherry boards I brought up from Bogue Chitto, and you can see it below. It’s about 6″ wide and 8′ long, and is [...]

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Well, I’ve grabbed one of the cherry boards from the drying stacks, and we ran it through the planer just to take a look at it.  I’ll be taking it back north, and the plan is to make some heart woven boxes with it.  It’s not one of the better boards, but there is one [...]

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Yesterday we took a cherry log and cut it down to a cant.  It was a little cool and a little late, so we stopped for the day.  This is what things looked like at that point:
It took us the entire afternoon, but we got about 110 bdft of 4/4 cherry.  A couple of boards [...]

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