This Birdseye maple picture frame is pretty basic but the story behind it is worth telling...
My friend Bruce in the back row with a beard owns a logging operation where I used to live and they bought a sawmill a few years ago to go along with the logging. So last fall when I went up to pick up the material to build my sons kitchen he gave me a stick of birdseye maple and asked me to build something he could look at.
Bruce and I were dive partners on the local sheriff underwater search and rescue team and know each other like brothers and are always teasing each other about something, so....I at first thought I'd make a Chevy bowtie out of the stick of B/E and put a mirror in it. That way I made him something he could look at. Did I mention he and I have a strong rivalry between Chevy and Ford? A Chevy bowtie mirror would be of no use to him.
Sadly last fall Bruce's father Carroll passed away just before hunting season, I decided that there could be no other use for that stick of B/E except to make this picture frame. I asked Bruce's wife to help me out and find a picture of Carroll (without Bruce knowing) so I could put this frame together complete with picture. It was a bonus that she had one of Bruce with his dad Carroll and son Perry all together.
Bruce is coming for a visit this Sunday, I think he is in for a surprise.
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Originally Posted by Jim Dunn
What an absolutely wonderful gesture and you done real nice on the frame, as well. BE Maple is one of my most favorite woods to use and seems to enhance most any project. Yours is certainly no exception. 
