Friends,
A great thing in woodworking is that folks keep coming up with things that stretch your concept of what is possible. Many people make furniture out of boards that come from trees. It is an old and respected concept. But I found one person who has skipped the use of boards in making a fine tall case clock. I have seen rustic furniture before, but this takes it a step further. I thought you would get a kick out of it.
Mel
Measure your output in smiles per board foot.
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Mel,
That clock looks EXTREMELY photoshopped!
Lee
Something odd about that stone wall too.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.~ Denis Diderot
Don,
Here is the website that the clock is on.
It looks as legit as any other website that you happen upon on the web. http://www.treemendousdesigns.com/contact.cfmLook under Products and you will find the clock plus a lot of other stuff which looks more "normal" for rustic furniture. MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
Something odd about that stone wall too.
Not to mention the electrical switchplate? In this age of photo manipulation, anything is possible.......
Lee
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Lee,
Them zebhoppers are quite real, oh yes. We have them at the bottom of our garden. The fairies who live there employ the hoppers during their goblin-hunts. I believe they were brought from Zanzibar in the C19th and escaped into the wild.
They play havoc with the carrot-tops.
Lataxe, who is not quite over 1968 yet
Dear Lataxe,
I am thrilled to hear that I am not the only one aware of the fairies in the garden. When I told my ladywife about them, she put a padlock on the liquor cabinet;(
Bob, desperately searching for a key in Tupper Lake, NY
Lee,If you want to check the folks out who are advertising the clock, along with a shop full of other rustic furniture, go tohttp://www.treemendousdesigns.com/contact.cfmI am not trying to sell anything. I don't know the company. I was on another website which had a link to this one and I checked it out. Most of their stuff looked pretty normal for rustic furniture. The clock was very very different, and to me, quite creative.MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
I am not trying to sell anything.
OH geeeee. You sell yourself every time you post something! I for one love that! You are an amazing man!
http://gardeningwithturtles.blogspot.com/2008/11/cats-real-and-wannabe.html
I thing Forest girl may even like this one! No horses though...
WG,
I don't think I am selling myself. Others do that to set up a future opportunity. I think I am just having fun in the present tense.
MelMeasure your output in smiles per board foot.
Sir Mel!
Nothing derogatory intended! I think we all 'sell ourselves' whenever we open our mouth to speak or type something.
will,
a frozen witch's utter? or was it an udder? since we're sharing darkish secrets, i've collected road-kill since 1980. my collection is quite extensive and representative of southwestern fauna. i know it rings a bit bizzare, but it is also fun, educational too. i for one would love to see a photo of that utter/udder.
thank you
eef
Eef,
Being what they are, them witch's utters can cast their malady even from a photograph. Beware all the bits of a witch, I say!
Now then, do you eat them roadkills and just taxidermy the outer parts? I have often wondered if a skunk tastes as bad as it sprays. (No I haven't). :-) And I feel I must request more photographs (of the dead beasts this time).
Lataxe, who is gradually returning to vegetarian status.
lataxe,about 28 years ago, while being anywhere, i kept finding unusual, odd and sometimes disturbing photographs. the first few weeks i would look at them and throw them away. the frequency with which this was taking place increased. i, although am thick as any brick, began to suspect serendipitous goings-on. i started keeping what i found. this trend continued for about 5 or 6 years. one day i found a discarded and very cheesy photo album. my "collection" is still inside it. after finding the photo album, the finding of these photos stopped.
the road kill finding started as a similar trend. it continues to this day. i believe my collecting of dead things is somewhat against exsisting laws. i don't deliberately seek them out. they are simply where i often am. it's either that they end up in a nice jar on my shelf or that the vultures and ravens eat them. they're just too good to pass up.
i hope you still like me and think me not too...eef
Eef,
You plead: "i hope you still like me and think me not too..."
Well, I was hopin' for an end to the sentence so I could allocate you to the correct category. However, there is no problem as one expects all folk from Kalifornee to be, well, a wee bit "strange". :-)
You would be right at home in Galgate, which is like Royston Vasey would have been in 1678. Here we still have witches and no one dare burn the rascals! Also, there are farming men who eat some very weird bits of the hanimals. Already I am getting a quease just recalling their arcane diet.
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Now then, have you that G Hack book on planes? I happen to have a spare copy and have noted your current enamour of the devilish instruments.
Lataxe, remembering the biology lab at school.
Hello Eef! I don't think we've crossed paths here before, so hello from the last frontier. Since you have so much material to hand, I thought you might find this a useful source of design ideas. Verne
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to cut it up and make something with it . . . what a waste!<!----><!----><!---->
thor,
kindest regards.
there are several methods by which one may preserve that special, eye-catching road kill. taxidermy is one. preserving in a two part mixture of rubbing alcohol and tap water is another, as well as my chosen, method.
nice to meet you too.
eef
Hey WG, What a lovely link!
Apologies for sticking me beak in.
Robin
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