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JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
Well, guess I could finally post some pics of my wood hobby...

I love working with rough surfaced wood, finishing, and rustic stuff.

When we finally got our home in Tennessee, one of the first things I did was take the wife's Eastern White Pine log bed frame down into the basement and sand it completely down, stained and Polyeurathaned it. We put it up in the master bedroom which had this horrid wallpaper. We got new matress and box springs for it, and she bought a quilt and I picked one too. Mine actually ended up on this bed, her quilt would end up on the other bed you'll see below.

Of course I had to remodel the bedroom, so all the wood finish on the walls and ceiling, the log shelf, and the table by the window I built.

[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/bed1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/bed2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/BedRoomShelf.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/BedRoom2.jpg[/IMG]

I didn't build these, but we had to have them.

[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/cedar_set.jpg[/IMG]

Comments

  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    The second bed I built from scratch. Started with fallen rough Eastern Red Cedar (Aromatic) we had on the property, made posts and rails, and worked the ends by hand with chisel, saw, etc. Wire brushed and sanded all surfaces, then Polyeurathaned. This cedar doesn't need stain.

    I designed it more as a day bed, for reading, enjoying the rain, napping, etc.

    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/RawCedar1.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/RawCedar2.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Start.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Unfinished.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Finished.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Finished2.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Finished3.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Matress.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Done.jpg[/IMG]

    I'm doing smaller projects these days with cedar (I just love this wood), which I'll show someday when I get pics.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    I love the simpler life, rustic home, fireplace, etc. and I think the following pics are just a small hint at why.

    What we have now we could not have in California, so while some sacrifices were made, we gained so much more in our situation.

    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/HouseCaveIce.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/CaveWaterFall.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/ForestCanopy.jpg[/IMG]
    [IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/wood/Peaceful.jpg[/IMG]

    Cheers!
  • Absofrakinlutly SWEET. :D
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Messiah agrees.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Great pictures, I worry though that the proximity of the woods, once they are on fire it's less than ideal for your house. Those green leaves will turn brown at least once a year, right?

    Your cedar bed looks great, but I fear the mattress is seated too low in the frame, you'll always be hitting the frame with your arms and legs at some point which can be quite painful. I remember the dorm beds, the mattress was only 3 inches above the wood frame and I hurt myself regularly until I got myself a new frameless bed. I have the scars on my lower legs to prove it. :D

    Or maybe I'm just clumsy that way.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    That's some awesome work, Jack. You'd get on well with my father. :D
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Very nice Jack! I'm not a big fan of the rustic style, but that is good work, and very apporpriate for the setting!

    Jake
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Sadly, most of my skills float between particular zones. occasionally, they cross boundaries and give me the power to do [B]something[/B] particularly well, but never on a scale like that.

    I do love the warmth of wood. It makes me feel so comfortable without much of any effort.

    In short, post up those photos of the rest of your abode :D

    Stingray: It's sort of how a certain Callista being has a certain futon with a raised mattress, such that the rails on either end are just slightly below the level of the mattress. Being the height I am, all it takes is one soft [I]*thwomp*[/I] and I smack right into the things with either my ankles or the back of my head :p Any higher and my body would account for them being there. any lower and the problem would be out of reach. but at that exact height, to the centimeter...they pose a threat to my well being!
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    I have no such skills, hence I am always in awe of those like yourself who do :)
  • sataicallistasataicallista High Priestess of Squeee!
    Gorgeous work and a gorgeous house.....I hate you now too.... :P
  • MundaneMundane Elite Ranger
    Nice! Your house is nice,but atleast I got a nicer view from my apartment!

    [IMG]http://www.tamyk.net/snapshotFiles/2007-10-29_Fullmoon%20above%20Munkholmen.JPG[/IMG]
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    Ewww.

    For a non perverted comment: Very nice Jack. I'm envious of your abilities. (I should repost the views from where I grew up).
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I'm confused. Which one is the perverted comment?
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Fire is a threat anywhere. The leaves do go yellow/red/brown and fall in Autum. While I am letting things grow on my property (the property was harvested about 14 years ago) I am also still keeping the sapling count down and natural fuel spent so the the older trees can reach some really nice maturity.

    This next year will see a large amount of Lob Lolly and Eastern White pine being started on my pasture acreage... I'm getting a new shipment of seeds from California this year, so hopefully I'll be more successful than I was last year. I had one really good California Incense Cedar take root and is in excellent condition. I'll probably leave it in its pot for another year or two before I transplant it one more final time.

    Hope to get some old friends started from the seeds coming this year.

    As for the Eastern Red Cedar, that stuff grows so much like weeds that I don't really have to do anything to get them to come back.

    I also received a Bracken Fern leaf with mega-spores, so I also hope to be growing the 3-4 foot variety I used to walk through in the forests of California.

    anywho... I'm rambling... yeah Fire is a concern, but to me not really more than anywhere else I might live. I chose to live life now, and not regret what I could have had/done.

    :)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    You don't need forest around your home for it to burn down.

    Jack, one day I'm going to have to show you [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LakeGunnBush.jpg]New[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coromandel_Forest_n.jpg]Zealand[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mount_of_moss-te_anau.jpg]bush[/url].
  • Space GhostSpace Ghost Elite Ranger
    Looks great, Jack! :)

    I on the other hand, have no such skills.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE=Biggles;166658][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coromandel_Forest_n.jpg]Coromandel Forest[/url][/QUOTE]

    That looks awesome, but where's the Velociraptors?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    You think they'd show themselves that easily?
  • Who do you think took the pic looking up at the house?
    Pocket warmers FTW!
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