So anyway, when I was last in the shop I left off here… an unfinished urn…
And there it sat… and sat… never to be finished???
Older Brother Steve is gone now… and at peace. He’ll have no use for it…
Younger Brother Scott called and asked me to give him a hand, moving furniture and things out of Steve’s place a couple of weeks ago… I arrived a little early, in the rain, feeling a little low… But, whatever your beliefs, you have to admit that sometimes, the world sends you a happy message… The sun found the rim of the clouds while I waited for Scott, in front of Steve’s house…
Later that week, Scott phoned again, wondering if I would help him to drop a few small trees up at a “Friend of his” Cottage up in Maine… I said sure… maybe it would spark some interest in me to do some woodworking…
And so we went up to York Beach, where he revealed that the Cottage was HIS!!!
The recent events in my Family have made him start rethinking his own future… He and his Fiance decided to pull the trigger on this place and I couldn’t be happier for them!! A place for them to enjoy in their Golden Years…
And we really did take down 4-5 trees too!! We did a bunch of raking as well…
It was pretty nice wood too, some Red and White Oak and another that I think was Gray Birch… I probably should have taken some home, but I have plenty to play with, and no room to store it to dry anyway…
As you can tell I’ve been feeling a little morose and discouraged… The first sides that I had joined of the urn, what seems so long ago, were looser than my norm, and I was feeling like I had lost my touch…
But the siren’s call of the wood was finally heard again by me this week and I ventured back into my shop… There waiting, was Steve’s unfinished and unnecessary urn. I’m going to build it, if for no other reason than to get it off the top of the pile in the shop, or perhaps the pile in my mind…
So at last, on Wednesday, I got back to work…
It only took 40 minutes, and the joints were nice and tight, the way we like them… If you notice, I left “extra” wood on the top and bottom… I want to cut some sort of detail there…
In searching through my stockpile I couldn’t find anything wide enough for the top and bottom, so I hopped in the car (God Help Me, but I love driving!) and took a trip up to the folk’s to scrounge around… Came back with a couple of Drawer sides that my Dad had been saving… I gave them a quick rough sanding with the belt sander to see what I have and it appears to be White Oak… These should do the trick…
Now I just have to cut them to size… and fit them…
And Brother Scott wants me to make him a sign for their Cottage…
It sure sounds like Fun to me… :)