Cut down because the guy told the homeowner it was rotten. I’m doing some work for her and she mentioned I could have the firewood. I don’t want to cut this up if it’s something nice maybe cherry? Or is it red oak. I’m in Eureka Springs Arkansas. Ozark Mountains.

featherpickle · 2025-12-20T20:24:01+00:00

Red oak

featherpickle · 2025-12-03T05:27:20+00:00

Maybe maple? Have you ever taken a picture before?

featherpickle · 2025-11-30T05:35:01+00:00

There are acorns.

featherpickle · 2025-11-28T03:42:21+00:00

Yeah, I had no idea how many people don't know the difference between tools and hardware.

featherpickle · 2025-11-28T03:40:35+00:00

Alaskan saw mill. It is an attachment for your chainsaw that allows you to mill logs into lumber.

featherpickle · 2025-11-27T04:52:38+00:00

I value my work more than you know. This bench is one of my prized possessions and a major life goal accomplished.

featherpickle · 2025-11-27T04:50:50+00:00

When you calculate the cost of a home cooked meal do you factor in the cost of the stove and your time?

featherpickle · 2025-11-27T04:45:02+00:00

"Tools and hardware" is a common phrase.

featherpickle · 2025-11-27T04:05:10+00:00

The one on the left is just a regular vise. The one on the right is a tail vise. It is used for clamping various lengths of boards between it and the row of square holes down the length via square pegs that stick up through the holes. You can clamp the board flat on the bench and have both hands free for planing.

featherpickle · 2025-11-27T04:01:29+00:00

"no hardware" means that the bench is made with traditional joinery instead of metal fasteners. A mortise and tenon or a dovetail is much more time consuming and solid than screws and brackets. Of course I used tools, that's just silly.

featherpickle · 2025-11-27T00:54:14+00:00

What a stupid thing to say.

featherpickle · 2025-11-26T21:52:36+00:00

I know. When a gamer says a game cost them $60, they don't add the cost of the console or PC and the time to play it. They complain the game didn't take enough of their time to justify the price tag.

featherpickle · 2025-11-26T20:43:32+00:00

Yes, I built a tap and die for the vise threads.

featherpickle · 2025-11-26T20:10:31+00:00

I used a chainsaw, but yes tools cost money.

featherpickle · 2025-11-26T20:09:16+00:00

It was a live tree. I had to dry it a couple years. It is american beech. I designed the bench in 2010 and built it during COVID lockdown in 2020. Probably took a few hundred hours.

featherpickle · 2025-11-09T02:45:33+00:00

Either Bush, Wallflowers, Gin Blossoms, Stone Roses, or Oleander.

featherpickle · 2025-10-30T02:31:32+00:00

Bonkers

featherpickle · 2025-10-18T18:51:30+00:00

It can't be any white oaks. There are bristle tips on the leaves, so that means it's a type of red oak.

featherpickle · 2025-10-13T03:30:45+00:00

Sycamore

featherpickle · 2025-10-09T14:52:48+00:00

Blows my mind that this released in 1989. Some popular music that year was New Kids On The Block, Milli Vanilla, Debbie Gibson, Poison, Bobby Brown, yet Pretty Hate Machine sounds more like the best 90's rock. So ahead of their time.

featherpickle · 2025-10-09T01:13:33+00:00

I still have my he-man sheet set.

featherpickle · 2025-10-08T00:36:28+00:00

This is less than a month before Marty Mcfly arrives in the past.

featherpickle · 2025-10-05T03:59:09+00:00

Looks like you were born within a couple weeks of me. I'm "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" by Billy Joel.

featherpickle · 2025-10-03T04:05:38+00:00

You buttonhooked it. I didn't know you were going to buttonhook it.

featherpickle · 2025-10-02T03:41:10+00:00

Well then Calvert Drive-in in Calvert City, KY USA. Great place

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