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General Category => Brag Forum => Topic started by: Old Crow on March 04, 2013, 09:35:48 pm
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Made myself a little humorous sign for my workshop. 1/8 inch Hickory plywood finished with Tung Oil. Will probably frame it with tobacco sticks.
Don R
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Very Cool, I like it!
Tommy T
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing it with us... are you going to make a frame for it?
DW
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nice piece Don thanks for sharing
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Nice work Don!
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Very nice Don ...Pete
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Looks nice
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Nice work don, if you give it a walking stick then it's the spitting image of me lol
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Nice work, I like it. Thanks for posting. :)
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Nice job, Very Cool, you have a very interesting way of working, thanks for sharing
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He looks good in that hat. Thanksfor letting us have a look
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That is one fine sign!! A+
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Nice one Don. like it.
Roly
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Looks greate, i like it.
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Nice job on the "self portrait" Don.
Pete
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:) Love it.
Marg
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I like the Ole Bird, but I am fain to ask - what are tobacco sticks?
Thanks for posting the pic - I like it.
Al
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very nice job, like the pattern.
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I like the Ole Bird, but I am fain to ask - what are tobacco sticks?
Thanks for posting the pic - I like it.
Al
Al, This will explain what tobacco sticks are:
Back in the olden days, when smoking tobacco was fashionable, lots of it was produced here in Tennessee, but now that there isn't much demand for it, tobacco farmers are going out of business and many of the old tobacco barns stand empty and derelict.
Many of the barns contain thousands of tobacco sticks which have laid there for many years.
Tobacco sticks were made on the farm , by hand by splitting local logs into sticks, each about 50 or 55 inches long and about 1.5 inches square. Some were pointed on one or both ends. At tobacco harvest time, the sticks were hauled to the fields and stuck in the ground along the rows of tobacco. As the leaves were harvested, they were hung or impaled or tied onto the sticks and when the sticks were full of leaves, they were hauled to the barn and hung on racks for drying.
The sticks were all produced from locally grown trees such as Yellow Poplar, Oak, Maple,Hickory, Chestnut, etc.
I buy up these old sticks from the families of the farmers, who are very happy to sell them, and run them through my planer to clean them up.
In their raw state, they look like any other old, dirty stick of wood but after they are cleaned up, they are actually quite beautiful. I use them to make hiking staffs, tables and now, frames
http://oldcrowtobaccosticks.webs.com/
Don R
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Cool Plaque ... ;D
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Thank you Don. After your explanation and viewing the website, I have a much better understanding.
Keep up the fine work and thanks for helping educate an old man.
Al
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Very Cool. Love it!