Hooo boy that bar is close to that stone! Good thing you Granite Staters know what you're doing with a saw. Well done sir.
The color of the wood is natural. It got a bit darker and more defined once I oiled it.
Carve it green if you can. Here's the aforementioned ladle. [ATTACH]
That would be the glass wash. It's cracked at that point but won't affect the operation. Maybe I'll hit that will some JB Weld.
You're doing the big work, man. Keep it up with the experiments. Poplar in shoulder season is a good thing. I had to burn it for a whole winter...
I believe it's called "Mojave Red" from the Stove Bright color chart. The wife likes it, so that's what it'll be.
Finally getting rid of the 40-year-old Garrison II that came with the house. Had about enough of a windowless, leaky, hard-to-load, warped door,...
This pleases me. Hope you stayed hydrated! This was a helluva project for such an intensely hot weekend.
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. People just have it in their heads how they're going to do things. Doesn't mean they're lacking in any...
I'm definitely interested to hear the results of your experiment, so keep us posted!
Too hot to split, so I've been hanging a few axe heads. Carpenter's hatchet as a "thank you" gift for the friend who let me take all his oak, a...
Minor adjustment! The five rows at the base will remain, too much work to rip it all off. Going up I'm leaving a board's width in between each...
Ahhhh.... I'm smellin' what you're steppin' in! Good call. I may have to rethink it. I'm not so far along that I can't pull off the top rows and...
Deep in the throes of firewood related thought the other night (and also a couple glasses of wine deep) I made the decision to start siding the...
I have 2.5 cords of maple that is ready to burn, plus a half cord of ash, walnut and cherry in case I need to stretch it. I also have a chunk bin...
I totally hear ya. My next door neighbor passed away last month... really nice guy and he'll be missed. Now I'm starting to worry if my new...
Hot, humid nasty day on the CT shoreline today. I've been making a weekly trip to a friend's house further down 95 to chip away at my latest wood...
Looks that log could really screw up a chainsaw :) I'll stick to my usual program of a pile of red oak and a 6 lb. maul.
I was doing the hatchet and chopping block method for years. Had no problem with it at all, but this neat little thing came my way and I'm pretty...
That's awesome. I remember reading an article once about "witness trees". Essentially, trees that were present in Civil War photographs that are...
