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finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby olivertractor » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:08 am

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rained out for anything outside, finally finished the plaques from my last 2 Ontario bucks


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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:11 am

What type of wood did you use? Those look sweet!

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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby olivertractor » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:25 am

they're either balsam, white spruce or maybe (doubtful) black spruce
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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:33 am

The marbling on the left one is awesome. Did you use a linseed or tung oil?

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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby olivertractor » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:43 am

I ragged some regular brown stain then wiped clean couple times then finished with some poly
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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby dan » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:46 am

8-)
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Unread postby Beartown18 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:53 am

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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby Dewey » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:05 am

Look great. 8-)

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Unread postby tcop7 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:16 am

Very cool!
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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby Jeff G » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:40 am

Are you going to hang on the wall or table display?
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Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:44 am

Very nice job!

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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby Stanley » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:05 am

Looks very nice.
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Unread postby Knute78 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:15 am

Exemplary job. Good work.

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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby backstraps » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:18 am

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Re: finished plaques for last 2 bucks

Unread postby olivertractor » Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:09 am

Jeff G wrote:Are you going to hang on the wall or table display?


see I've always felt European mounts aren't totally natural (when just hanging on the wall), though love the looks of them, so I was thinking on trying to do a wall mount where they would sit naturally or stand that would sit on the mantle, piano, table, etc.??? Or I have a chunk of diamond willow that I could stack a bunch of mounts on in a room corner :think:
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