Let's go a-driftwooding!

Pulled this Walnut stump out of the drink yesterday, still pretty waterlogged. A new batch of driftwood floated in over the last few days. Trying to get these to a dry location so they can air out.

This other chunk of Walnut I just found this morning, it's way wet. Took everything I had to pull it above the high tide line.

I'm going to leave the one on the dolly here, and wrastle the stump back to my 240.

1/4 rainbow...

I had made it about 200 yards from the river at this point, over the roughest terrain, sweating holiday calories from every pore. I had to take several 10 minute breaks getting this thing back to the car. Took me two hours just to retrieve this stump.

Holiday Happenings!

Mother Oregon's farewell sunrise...

Flying over the Cascades!

My little sister's farmhouse in the country where she lives with Steve, an awesome drummer and an awesome dude who rocks drums with Immolation.

Getting ready to get in the car on Christmas Day to see all my family that I have not seen in forever!

There were some really awesome pieces of down birch and walnut on the property, two cool little lakes, and streams and deer.

Crazy old trailer decrepit and abandoned in the woods..

 Good snowfall the night before I left! Her place is in Geauga County so it's totally snowbelt action.

Back home in Portland, old pilings and fog on the river.

Forest park.

Puddle pictures...

Fog and BNSF.

Columbia River Gorge on New Years Day.

A devil on Angel's Rest...

Angel's Rest.

Shou-Sugi-Ban Reclaimed Douglas Fir Side Table. Sold.

So the Shou-Sugi-Ban technique is basically moderately burning the outer surface of a resinous wood, there is an art to it. I only utilized that on the outer facing surfaces on this piece.

American Zen Master Bench from American Hickory and Ripple Grain Douglas Fir. Sold.

Snappy little red oak piping down the middle.

Great grain in this super hard American Hickory.

The ripple grain doug fir.

Live Edge Walnut Magnetic Knife Racks. All Sold.

I've created a few more of these, as the myrtle version I had posted on my etsy site went viral last week. Two of these sold this morning. Actually, this one was the first to sell, no small wonder as the grain has the most WOW! of all of them.

Most of these are 16" long, height varies from 4 to 5 ".  

I created a channel in the backside of the piece to embed the magnets( I used ceramic Ferrite block magnets),  then  refilled the open space with more tight fitting pieces of walnut, which are glued into place for maximum strength.