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Charles Parott and grandson show off some hand made mallets made from laminating scrap wood then finishing with oil.
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| Ramona Darden showed some toys crafted by her and the "Friday Night" splinter group. Ramona credits her friend, Martha, for the cute paint decorations. The pigtails are weedeater lines that have been twisted, wound then heated. | 
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Tommy also made this box to display a Ruger. A "bang-up" job
he did, I'd say.
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Raymond Music will certainly manage to "scrape by" with these fine handmade planes. He used bodark, purple heart, walnut, and mulberry. Raymond spoke of his clever re-design to accomodate "unplanned" blade dimensions -- some would say "adding character" to the piece. |
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May Texas stars shine upon you as Denis Muras shows off stars of oak and mahogany crafted by his father. Denis constructed this shelf plus a second shelf for a kindergarten class from one sheet of playwood -- um--- I mean plywood. |
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| Steve Singleton showed club members how to "rock" the day away in this classic rocker of mesquite. Five coats of wipe-on polyurethane finished the project. |
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Eugene Borden opens the lid to his blanket chest of cherry with walnut edging and a cedar-lined bottom. Two coats of Danish oil top off the project. The lid mechanism is a slow- close device to protect tiny hands -- as well as adult hands too. The design came from Fine Woodworking magazine. |
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