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That must be very rewarding to have conceived and now carried out. My question now is where will you cook? I mean you're not going to make a mess on that are you? :lol:
I did a white oak counter top and it came out very nicely. By the time I took pictures she had it all loaded up with her junk and it's been that way ever since. She even had a granite cutting board cut that covers one whole top. Granite is overrated. It'll dull a knife quicker than snot
I made an extension to my kitchen counter for the microwave. I made a rack below the counter to slide the cutting board in like a drawer. Even put a matching knob on it. The idea was to make more clear counter space. I had another wooden cutting board (thin) I kept tucked away. Now the one stays in it's special place and the other one sits on the counter :lol:

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That’s the real beauty of wood . I can always sand and refinish for the finish I used Waterlox it can be recoatedany time without the need to sand . The blank I cut out for the rangetop will be a cutting board that will pretty much stay to the right of the cooktop haven’t gotten around to finishing it yet

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Nice looking truck . I missed a nice square single cab duelly last week . Low miles on it and mostly original paint . Guy came an hour before me and bought it .

I made a real nice two inch thick black walnut cutting board a few years ago . Watched the misses take out the old cutting board and put it on the new one when she’s cutting up veggies .

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Couple of things done today . Split some oak and hickory today and moved the pile of split to the stacking area . Had a Forman watching me very interested in my work . Not my picture didn’t have the phone with me but this was him . White Weasel all ready for winter

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Roughed out another small bowl

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Even though the wood had dried for three years it developed a stress crack . So I had to cut it and add a piece of maple . I also finished the backsplash .

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I hope I have made the last trip to town for things the wife says we need for Christmas fixins.....

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I finally found some pictures of the counter top I made. This is in our old house in CA. I miss that house :(. We put a lot of money and time into it. Anyway, end grain walnut butcherblock.

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That’s a lot of work . I would have taken it with me and use it for something at the new house . Formica is good enough for the new owner

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You guys do nice work! Here's a maple end grain cutting board I made. That maple is hard! I bought about 40 stair balusters that had yet to be turned. Habitat ReStore sold them to me for $80 +tax. They were 1-3/4 X 1-3/4 X 40 inches. What a steal!

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You guys need to go back to work

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I think I'll always be working :rolleyes:

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That counter is really nice! Wife wants a new counter and sink. I know a reliable contractor who is going to do that and install all new kitchen cabinets. I have more money than energy, these days...meaning not much energy. It'd take me months to do the cabinets.

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The counter top came out beautiful . I have white oak 5/4 boards that are as old as the barn . They were cribs and all the boards for the horse stalls used one to make the bathroom vanity I didn’t plane them since I wanted the saw marks but where I cut it was the same color as the countertop you built

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I love the rustic look. That counter was semi-rustic I guess. I saved every scrap of that old oak. It came from a 250 year old building and the tree we figured was about 250 years old when cut. That tree started growing 500 years ago!

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Since we did Christmas yesterday with my family and tomorrow we go to the misses family decided it was as good a time as any to make some more cutting boards . These are Ash that was dying from the Emerald ash borer . I kept the live edge as the it looked interesting the way the borer made its tunnels

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That will be one nice ash cutting board

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Nothing better than a nice piece of ash.

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Agreed.

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well i've been working on this for more than today,but today i'm finished and will move onto something else.i bought a sheet metal brake from Princess Auto here(like Harbor Freight in the States)brought it home and never opened it cause i KNEW it was going to be cheap China junk so back it went,i thought i can build something better,so here it is,a 48 inch metal brake,a place off the side to mount my shear,a old antique Record swivel vise my Father-in-law gave me.i took it all apart,cleaned,greased,painted it and put it back together and that gives me a place to mount my bead roller off the other side of the table or whatever else i need a vice for,then across the back,what i call a pipe vise but i'm sure that's not the proper name.2 different sized pipes that let me roll metal over a pipe for a driveshaft tunnel,a transmission tunnel or whatever?i played with some scrap material and i think this is going to work just fine.

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That is a slick metal working station. You should build and sell those. I'll put my order in now

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hi Tim,i'll build you one but shipping would be a killer,you'd have to come get it,but it ain't nothing but a drive.

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I am a Huge HF fan.
I know what to buy and avoid.

You have the Perfect Work Bench.

Do you have a Beverly Shear hiding there somewhere?

Great Job on the Bench. :metal::metal::metal:

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thanks.i think it turned out well.i shop at Princess Auto here and Harbor Freight when i'm in the States,but as you say,there are things you can buy,things you can't.i don't have a Beverly shear,just a hand power shear that does a good job,surprisingly and the one on the side of my table that i bought at Eastwood in Pottstown,Pa when my buddy and i were there to go to Williamsgrove Speedway to watch the World of Outlaw cars a couple of trips ago.

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I was going to say the same thing. I would say the shipping would be around $1,000 for that to the central states. Maybe a little less along the East coast, but shipping is NUTS !!