Here are a few of our Christmas presents finally finished today.
The oak birdhouse is actually a box, a gift for my 89-year-old father-in-law with a roof to protect his backyard wee ones from the raindrops. Oak is kiln dried laminated scrap block from a local mill factory. Top is laminated cherry post from my carpenter son-in-law. The woodburned design hides the joint for the box bottom, done as such so that the house can be cleaned each season. Hook is an antenna wire guide.
Ornament is for our best-ever neighbors who are moving out of state (sniff-sniff). It's a box that the LOML suggested filling with a few mini-photos of our nuclear family so our friends will always remember us at Christmas. It's made from kiln-dried laminated cherry from son-in-law.
Both were finished with 2-3 coats of Bush Oil and Beall buffed. Red and green in the ornament woodburned strip came from Prismacolor alcohol-based markers.
Suggestions for improvement of future pieces seriously encouraged.
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