Lol. So this is what one of those skinny cedar posts look like that are spread out amongst the T posts when it is turned into a pen. I really didn't know what it was at first until mmayo brought the wood to my attention. Picked it up while I was getting a little more mesquite. Will be the last time I turn this stuff. Very graining and splintery. Was hard to finish but eventually got it with 7 coats of thin CA and about 20 coats of Med CA.
W. Tx Cedar Post
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dogcatcher
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The skinny ones are cedar stays, they are used to help keep the barb wire in place. I used to buy them by the pickup load at the farm and ranch store. You should also be able to get cedar fence posts. Back in the day I had a deal with one of the store managers, he had the yard man set aside the seconds and I would go by about once a month and buy them. They come green from central and north Texas area. I would stack under my shed so that air flowed through them, and used the posts for weed pots, and natural edge bowls. After about 30 years, I developed an allergy to cedar, now I can look at a fence post and start sneezing and itching.
mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
Very nice Bobby. Notwithstanding the issues it has an interesting grain.
yea @dogcatcher, I have quite a few of these running around my fence, and you would have thought I would have recognized it. Lol
Thanks Billy!
@mark james Yea it actually seemed to have a better grain pattern from the start. Kept losing the interest after it was slowly turned down. Lol
Thanks Billy!
@mark james Yea it actually seemed to have a better grain pattern from the start. Kept losing the interest after it was slowly turned down. Lol
Lucky2
Member
Nice looking pen Bobby, and a perfect match up of blank to kit finish. I don't do much with cedar, because of how harmful to my health it can be. I've had a few friends die from cancer, and the cancer was proven to be the cause. How they proved it is beyond me, but it's what I was told. It was the dust from the cedar, that stuff is bad chit, worse than a lot of other types of tree dust.
Len
Len
Yea I don't really mess with it much either. About the only thing I've ever used it for was a cedar chest I made about 12 yrs go for my late wife's christmas present.
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Bean_Counter
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Nice pen. Good to see someone from our area. I'm in Lubbock! If you ever come
Up this way let me know. I wouldn't mind sharing some of my million blanks
Up this way let me know. I wouldn't mind sharing some of my million blanks
MTViper
Member
Nice job. I love working with cedar. Have a big (8" diameter x 8' length) that was in the ground 50 years or so that I need to cut up and make something from. I'm east of you a couple of hours, right off I-20. Drop me a line if you're headed to DFW and I'll make you a cup of coffee on the way and share some blanks.
wolf creek knives
Member
Good looking pen Bobby. So how many slivers did you have to pull out of your fingers? That looks like some pretty rough wood.
Never got any slivers. It really wasn't that bad turning. The cheap crap in HD is worse than the posts. Lol