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Originally Posted by Steeveedee
This topic came up on another thread here, so I'll start this thread to keep that one less off-track.
Here's a couple of tool chests I've made. The top one is quarter sawn white oak and used to hold my small wood carving tools. It was getting beat up in transport to and from class, so I retired it and it now holds some measuring and drafting tools. The big one holds my large carving tools and has 5 drawers as expansion space as I buy the ones I need. The bottom left drawer is for mallets, so it's deeper.
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Man those are gorgeous! It definitely takes a plan, patience and time to build cabinet - furniture quality pieces like that. I am jealous.
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Originally Posted by Killer Bee
very nice Steve!!!
grandpa was a german immigrant, wood carver and pattern maker, in the latter years carved gunstocks for fajens out of warsaw mo..
there's a boat load of old german steel carving tools and even his old gun bench 
dad dabbled in a few things, we had a lathe, joiner, tablesaw, table sander, etc..
I dabbled a little too, made this in sophomore or junior year of hs, got a ribbon at show in cmsu warrensburg 
hope to get back to it when I retire, nothing better than building things that work and fit!
made a pantry for my folks out of old grain truck tongue and groove flooring, mom still uses it every day! |
You built that in high school? Makes that laminated wood duck that i made in wood shop look like a piece of firewood!
. That gun case is beautiful!
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Originally Posted by Killer Bee
not much from grandpa either.. one marlin 336 with some fine checkering and oak leaf..
I kept thinking I need to take it down for pictures when I'm back home but never did, yet..
mom asked him a few times about carving stocks for some of our guns and told her to call fajen..
Reinhardt came to his funeral and gave us this catalog display stock but he didn't even like it, but would carve whatever customers wanted..
he drew all his own art and patterns, got a cigar box full of layouts..
it belongs to some odd rem rolling block curved tang model.. also difficult to find matching forestock even if I could find the rifle..
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At the risk of removing all doubt that Im not a wood worker I have to ask. What is Oak Leaf? Is it an actual leaf carved into the stock?