To understand the whys of the question, I have to first tell a small story.
Well, a story with a short preface.
The Preface:
Met my wife 20 years ago in high school, dated a little while, parted ways,
got married 15 or 16 years later after living in different states for most
of that time with little contact.
The Story:
We're at the Central Washington State Fair a couple years ago, and I noticed
that, no matter what barn or building we were in, she always gravitated to
the ugliest, most pathetic, most horrific, most wretched looking creatures
in the building. The ugliest, scrawniest cow? That was the one she thought
was "soooo cute." In the reptile barn? The nastiest, scaliest, ugliest
lizard was, to her, "so beautiful." At Xmas she always wants to go for the
Charlie Brown tree, four feet tall with three branches and seven needles.
That, of course, is when I realized exactly how I'd managed to bag this
beauty. She looked around at all the available suitors, and picked the most
pathetic, most wretched looking one of the bunch, me.
And don't get me wrong, I ain't arguing with it. Take what you can get and
ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
The Knothole Question:
I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut, one
foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a humongous
knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
half across.
So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with that
knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
"Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned it
again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
Any thoughts?
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:24:50 -0700, "Victor De Long"
<[email protected]> wrote:
[entertaining prelude snipped]
>Any thoughts?
Trivet?
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Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999
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Victor De Long wrote:
> So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
> knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
> trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with that
> knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
> "Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned it
> again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
> trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
> feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
> nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
> Any thoughts?
I had an off-cut of 4X6 Black Walnut with a hole where a bark
inclusion had been leaving a knothole at about a 75% angle through
the the wide parts of the board with a 35% angle sideways. I
stood it on it's end so the hole went front to back and up to
down, hard to explain, and sanded it then Ued the DP to make a
hole from the top down into andslightly past the bottom of the
knothole. Secured a bud vase in it and my SWMBO uses it for
smaller cut flowers. The stem and water are visible about midway
down the wood with the flower and some stem coming out the top
end.
Just a thought,
Dave in Fairfax
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Nice story Victor.
Make a small picture frame.
Dave
"Victor De Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> To understand the whys of the question, I have to first tell a small
story.
> Well, a story with a short preface.
>
> The Preface:
> Met my wife 20 years ago in high school, dated a little while, parted
ways,
> got married 15 or 16 years later after living in different states for most
> of that time with little contact.
>
> The Story:
> We're at the Central Washington State Fair a couple years ago, and I
noticed
> that, no matter what barn or building we were in, she always gravitated to
> the ugliest, most pathetic, most horrific, most wretched looking creatures
> in the building. The ugliest, scrawniest cow? That was the one she
thought
> was "soooo cute." In the reptile barn? The nastiest, scaliest, ugliest
> lizard was, to her, "so beautiful." At Xmas she always wants to go for
the
> Charlie Brown tree, four feet tall with three branches and seven needles.
> That, of course, is when I realized exactly how I'd managed to bag this
> beauty. She looked around at all the available suitors, and picked the
most
> pathetic, most wretched looking one of the bunch, me.
>
> And don't get me wrong, I ain't arguing with it. Take what you can get
and
> ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
>
> The Knothole Question:
> I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut,
one
> foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a
humongous
> knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
> little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
> half across.
>
> So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
> knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
> trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with
that
> knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
> "Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned
it
> again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
> trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
> feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
> nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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Nice story Victor.
Make a small picture frame.
Dave
"Victor De Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> To understand the whys of the question, I have to first tell a small
story.
> Well, a story with a short preface.
>
> The Preface:
> Met my wife 20 years ago in high school, dated a little while, parted
ways,
> got married 15 or 16 years later after living in different states for most
> of that time with little contact.
>
> The Story:
> We're at the Central Washington State Fair a couple years ago, and I
noticed
> that, no matter what barn or building we were in, she always gravitated to
> the ugliest, most pathetic, most horrific, most wretched looking creatures
> in the building. The ugliest, scrawniest cow? That was the one she
thought
> was "soooo cute." In the reptile barn? The nastiest, scaliest, ugliest
> lizard was, to her, "so beautiful." At Xmas she always wants to go for
the
> Charlie Brown tree, four feet tall with three branches and seven needles.
> That, of course, is when I realized exactly how I'd managed to bag this
> beauty. She looked around at all the available suitors, and picked the
most
> pathetic, most wretched looking one of the bunch, me.
>
> And don't get me wrong, I ain't arguing with it. Take what you can get
and
> ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
>
> The Knothole Question:
> I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut,
one
> foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a
humongous
> knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
> little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
> half across.
>
> So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
> knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
> trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with
that
> knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
> "Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned
it
> again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
> trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
> feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
> nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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Nice story Victor.
Make a small picture frame.
Dave
"Victor De Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> To understand the whys of the question, I have to first tell a small
story.
> Well, a story with a short preface.
>
> The Preface:
> Met my wife 20 years ago in high school, dated a little while, parted
ways,
> got married 15 or 16 years later after living in different states for most
> of that time with little contact.
>
> The Story:
> We're at the Central Washington State Fair a couple years ago, and I
noticed
> that, no matter what barn or building we were in, she always gravitated to
> the ugliest, most pathetic, most horrific, most wretched looking creatures
> in the building. The ugliest, scrawniest cow? That was the one she
thought
> was "soooo cute." In the reptile barn? The nastiest, scaliest, ugliest
> lizard was, to her, "so beautiful." At Xmas she always wants to go for
the
> Charlie Brown tree, four feet tall with three branches and seven needles.
> That, of course, is when I realized exactly how I'd managed to bag this
> beauty. She looked around at all the available suitors, and picked the
most
> pathetic, most wretched looking one of the bunch, me.
>
> And don't get me wrong, I ain't arguing with it. Take what you can get
and
> ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
>
> The Knothole Question:
> I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut,
one
> foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a
humongous
> knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
> little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
> half across.
>
> So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
> knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
> trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with
that
> knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
> "Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned
it
> again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
> trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
> feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
> nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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Nice story Victor.
Make a small picture frame.
Dave
"Victor De Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> To understand the whys of the question, I have to first tell a small
story.
> Well, a story with a short preface.
>
> The Preface:
> Met my wife 20 years ago in high school, dated a little while, parted
ways,
> got married 15 or 16 years later after living in different states for most
> of that time with little contact.
>
> The Story:
> We're at the Central Washington State Fair a couple years ago, and I
noticed
> that, no matter what barn or building we were in, she always gravitated to
> the ugliest, most pathetic, most horrific, most wretched looking creatures
> in the building. The ugliest, scrawniest cow? That was the one she
thought
> was "soooo cute." In the reptile barn? The nastiest, scaliest, ugliest
> lizard was, to her, "so beautiful." At Xmas she always wants to go for
the
> Charlie Brown tree, four feet tall with three branches and seven needles.
> That, of course, is when I realized exactly how I'd managed to bag this
> beauty. She looked around at all the available suitors, and picked the
most
> pathetic, most wretched looking one of the bunch, me.
>
> And don't get me wrong, I ain't arguing with it. Take what you can get
and
> ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
>
> The Knothole Question:
> I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut,
one
> foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a
humongous
> knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
> little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
> half across.
>
> So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
> knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
> trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with
that
> knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
> "Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned
it
> again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
> trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
> feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
> nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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Nice story Victor.
Make a small picture frame.
Dave
"Victor De Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> To understand the whys of the question, I have to first tell a small
story.
> Well, a story with a short preface.
>
> The Preface:
> Met my wife 20 years ago in high school, dated a little while, parted
ways,
> got married 15 or 16 years later after living in different states for most
> of that time with little contact.
>
> The Story:
> We're at the Central Washington State Fair a couple years ago, and I
noticed
> that, no matter what barn or building we were in, she always gravitated to
> the ugliest, most pathetic, most horrific, most wretched looking creatures
> in the building. The ugliest, scrawniest cow? That was the one she
thought
> was "soooo cute." In the reptile barn? The nastiest, scaliest, ugliest
> lizard was, to her, "so beautiful." At Xmas she always wants to go for
the
> Charlie Brown tree, four feet tall with three branches and seven needles.
> That, of course, is when I realized exactly how I'd managed to bag this
> beauty. She looked around at all the available suitors, and picked the
most
> pathetic, most wretched looking one of the bunch, me.
>
> And don't get me wrong, I ain't arguing with it. Take what you can get
and
> ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
>
> The Knothole Question:
> I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut,
one
> foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a
humongous
> knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
> little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
> half across.
>
> So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
> knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
> trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with
that
> knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
> "Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned
it
> again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
> trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
> feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
> nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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My newsreader did it!
sorry
Dave
"Hitch" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "TeamCasa" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>
> > Nice story Victor.
> > Make a small picture frame.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
>
> Dave, I think he got it the first time....
>
> --
> John Snow
> "If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be here"
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In article <[email protected]>,
Victor De Long <[email protected]> wrote:
>ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
>
>The Knothole Question:
>I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut, one
>foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a humongous
>knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
>little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
>half across.
>
>So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
>knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
>trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with that
>knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
>"Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned it
>again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
>trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
>feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
>nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
>
>Any thoughts?
Well, at only 1-1/2" it's too small for the 'obvious' application -- as a
high-class seat for a privvy. <*GRIN*>
More seriously, make a medium-small _box_ with the knothole centered in the
front face.
Then construct a miniature 'diorama' inside the box, to be viewed by looking
though the knothole. a la a Fabrege` egg. Better yet, have _her_ build
the diorama. If you're mean, you'll make her do it _after_ you seal the
enclosure -- a la 'ship in a bottle' construction techniques.
Possibly a picture-frame for a locket/wallet-size photo. a collar-bone-up
shot. "My favorite knot-head". <groan>
"TeamCasa" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> Nice story Victor.
> Make a small picture frame.
>
> Dave
>
>
Dave, I think he got it the first time....
--
John Snow
"If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be here"
"Victor De Long" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
<snip>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
I like to make small boxes for desktops or dressers, with knots featured in
the lid or one of the sides. Something of a reminder that not everything
beautiful is perfect...
Patriarch
Patriarch notes:
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
>I like to make small boxes for desktops or dressers, with knots featured in
>the lid or one of the sides. Something of a reminder that not everything
>beautiful is perfect...
Or he might make a pendant out of it, polish it up and put it on a gold chain.
Charlie Self
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from
man."
H. L. Mencken
Charlie Self wrote:
> Or he might make a pendant out of it, polish it up and put it on a gold chain.
Wow! and I thought the Ikebanz thing was kinda Zen-like. A
knothole on a chain. THAT'S Zen. %-)
Dave in Fairfax
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Dave in Fairfax responds:
>Charlie Self wrote:
>> Or he might make a pendant out of it, polish it up and put it on a gold
>chain.
>
>Wow! and I thought the Ikebanz thing was kinda Zen-like. A
>knothole on a chain. THAT'S Zen. %-)
Gotta cut it thin, of course, just the surrounding 3/8" or so. But that's not
Zen, it's Baptist, and not even Southern Baptist.
Charlie Self
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from
man."
H. L. Mencken
patrick conroy wrote:
> I thoughts chaining holes was part o' String Theory and you needed a small
> Black Hole nearby.
Well, yeah, but that's a quantum leap from Zen. OTOH, it could be
the same, it's a bit chaotic.
Dave in Fairfax
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"dave in fairfax" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Wow! and I thought the Ikebanz thing was kinda Zen-like. A
> knothole on a chain. THAT'S Zen. %-)
I thoughts chaining holes was part o' String Theory and you needed a small
Black Hole nearby.
"dave in fairfax" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Victor De Long wrote:
> > So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around
that
> > knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use
for
> > trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with
that
> > knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
> > "Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she
mentioned it
> > again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
> > trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
> > feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
> > nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
> > Any thoughts?
>
>
> I had an off-cut of 4X6 Black Walnut with a hole where a bark
> inclusion had been leaving a knothole at about a 75% angle through
> the the wide parts of the board with a 35% angle sideways. I
> stood it on it's end so the hole went front to back and up to
> down, hard to explain, and sanded it then Ued the DP to make a
> hole from the top down into andslightly past the bottom of the
> knothole. Secured a bud vase in it and my SWMBO uses it for
> smaller cut flowers. The stem and water are visible about midway
> down the wood with the flower and some stem coming out the top
> end.
>
> Just a thought,
> Dave in Fairfax
> --
> Dave Leader
> reply-to doesn't work
> use:
> daveldr at att dot net
> American Association of Woodturners
> http://www.woodturner.org
> Capital Area Woodturners
> http://www.capwoodturners.org/
ikebana display. basically you silicone a waterproof cup of some sort under
the hole. add a frog into the hole, and use it to display cut flowers. cut
it into some interesting shape and put a nice finish on it.
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:24:50 -0700, "Victor De Long"
<[email protected]> calmly ranted:
-snip of shed-
>And don't get me wrong, I ain't arguing with it. Take what you can get and
>ask for seconds. But all of this is only to shed light on:
>
>The Knothole Question:
>I picked up for cheap the other day a sizable piece of beautiful walnut, one
>foot by three feet. An inch thick. Cheap because at one end is a humongous
>knot. The knot itself is probably three or four inches across, maybe a
>little more. The knothole itself is probably, give or take, an inch and a
>half across.
Cool.
>So I was showing my wife my smart purchase, saying, I can cut around that
>knot, and that still leaves a whole lot of nice looking walnut to use for
>trim or small boxes or whatever. "Well, what are you going to do with that
>knot?" she says. "It's really beautiful." I made the Tim Taylor
>"Arrrrooooo?" noise, then pretty much forgot about it until she mentioned it
That's my favorite noise. (...until he gets to <ar ar ar>) ;)
>again the next day. And again a few days later. That's when I started
>trying to come up with a project, any project, that would prominently
>feature a big-ass knothole. Apart from a paperweight, I came up with
>nothing, so I'm throwing it out to the experts.
>
>Any thoughts?
Wayull, some of our pro furniture makers here have pt things in
them. Phully Laird pots acorns in clear epoxy. And Dougie Stowe
puts stones in the hollows.
You could always make it a Zen feature. Finish it without any
sanding or touchup and leaving it (w)hole.
We'd do better with a pic of said board.
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