Armin
Reged: May 20 2002
Posts: 352
Loc: Michigan's upper peninsula
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Lack of skivie storage space prompted me to build in a bank of drawers in my bathroom wall. The drawer faces are a real fluk. Last winter I went to one of the local sawmills to buy some curly maple when I noticed this strange looking log coming off the debarker. The operator dumped it into the reject pile to be ground up as chips. I asked the owner if I could buy it as a pulp log. The short version is I paid him $25 bucks for the log and another $25 to have it sawed. He thought I was nuts. Turns out is was a soft maple birdseye log with huge eyes and flame curl, in 15 years of selling figured wood it's the only birdseye soft maple I ever seen. Decided to use one board and make something nice for the misses.
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Edited by Armin (Thu May 30 2002 07:51 PM)
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Armin
Reged: May 20 2002
Posts: 352
Loc: Michigan's upper peninsula
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close up. This stuff has as nice a figure as a hooter's waitress.
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Luka
Reged: Apr 25 2002
Posts: 1401
Loc: The great NorthWet
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I don't mean to tell you what to do here, Armin, but I think it would look better if the trim on the sides and top were of the same wood.
Or maybe a light colored walnut ?
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ~Samuel Johnson
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Armin
Reged: May 20 2002
Posts: 352
Loc: Michigan's upper peninsula
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Luka, Yes you are right, the trim is temporary as is the off center thermostat. This was a quickie project, the real trim comes later.
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Don
Reged: May 13 2002
Posts: 8
Loc: Norht central Illinois
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Armin ,
Those are cool drawers for your drawers.
I think that some of the figure looks like it has some faces in it .
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Armin
Reged: May 20 2002
Posts: 352
Loc: Michigan's upper peninsula
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Thanks Don, I don't know about the faces but I can see the eyes everywhere.
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Mistah_T
Reged: May 19 2002
Posts: 135
Loc: Elmira, NY
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Was the owner of the sawmill russian? was there a black helicopter parked out back? You can never be too paranoid about this stuff.
Just to be sure maybe you should paint over all them eyes!!
NOT
Beautiful stuff!!!!!!!!
T
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Do NOT try this at home!!
I am a trained Professional!
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