Thank you.. Regarding the spalted maple. I was up visiting my daughter in
Seattle and several spalted trees had been cut down into firewood rounds by
the city. The rounds were scattered along several residential sidewalks. I
couldn't resist taking one of them for myself. As I did so, a women in a
second story apartment, opened her window and bemoaned how she enjoyed those
trees so much and was saddened by their removal. That sort of stuck in my
mind. So the first thing I did when the wood was dry enough was build this
wooden box out of a center fletch and give it to my daughter so that at
least a little of that tree remained in Seattle and became something more
the firewood..

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Great job on all accounts ! I've always like the shaker style and that
table is a fine example. Would love to get my hands on some spalted
maple myself,... beautiful !

Lenny

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:25:44 -0800, "Jim Hall"
wrote:

Here are three recently completed projects. A small spalted maple box
from
part of a sidewalk maple tree cut down by the City of Seattle last summer,
a
lap and dowel jointed, red oak quilt frame for my wife's birthday, and a
shaker style 5-drawer cabinet/table for our entry made out of cherry, with
walnut drawer pulls, red leaf tiger maple drawer sides and Tennessee red
cedar bottoms.. Fun projects..