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Permalink Reply by Rob Gregg on November 30, 2010 at 19:20

Hey there Bill, those suggestions read like my Christmas wish list. LOL! I checked out your website, very cool stuff!! My wife and I have been building custom cabinets and furniture most of our adult lives. Our mainstay has always been kitchen and bath cabinets but we've built quite a few display cases and collectibles cabinets over the years. I build almost all of 'em from scratch nowadays. But in the early days one of our biggest sellers were old converted console TV cabinets from the 50's, 60's and 70's. After gutting them, we'd build matching and/or contrasting doors and drawers for 'em. We built a pretty good reputation on those ol' cabinets and folks used to bring over their old TV's and hire us to revamp them into a variety of different uses. (chests of drawers, sideboards, liquor cabinets, etc...) Some of those TV's, especially the ones from the late 60's-early 70's were not only big, but some were down right fancy. I don't come across too many of those ol' TV's anymore, but still have one that I converted several years ago for myself with shallow drawers. All my other "personal" display cabinets, I've built from 120 year old barnboard. My wife and I actually tore that old barn down ourselves and I've been kinda stubborn about hoarding it for my own use. Most of it was quartersawn Chestnut and as you probably know, that stuff is very hard to come by these days. Anyway, for what it's worth. I know a good display cabinet when I see it and I believe you've got 'er down to a fine art. Hope ya sell a million of 'em. Rob

Bill Harvey said:

Howdy Rob,
Thanks for your post. I've said it before, the best thing a body can give a collector is not necessarily a collectible item, but instead something to support the collection. Good for your wife! Scrubby pads & oil are a great example. May I suggest adding an assortment of steel wool, a small can of turps, small bottle of ammonia cleanser, and some cotton rags.
Someone suggested cardboard boxes a few days ago. Not as silly as it sounds. If you have enough of any-dang-collectible, it might be worth the time to drop into a packaging store and see how far $25 would go in nice, clean, perfectly / identically sized, cardboard boxes.
And I'm slammed thru the end of the year and can't do a thing about it, so I feel it's OK to remind one & all that I make some pretty terrific gifts for knife collectors at www.home-museum.com.
Bill

Bill Harvey said:

Hi Knife-Folks,

I do a web newsletter about this time of year for giving gifts to collectors. Can I ask what kind of gifts you have gotten in support of your knife collecting that really made your day? Not knives, but generic stuff that might appeal to collectors of all stripes.

And thank you all for the recent birthday felicitations.

Bill

Permalink Reply by Bill Harvey on November 30, 2010 at 20:43

Dun'know what pits are, but I love 'em little cigar boxes too. Bought a mess of them -alas, innocent of cigars- from Neptune Cigars, (http://www.neptunecigar.com/), for about fi'ty cents each. Plan to addr feets (little wooden knobs) and knobs (turned brass) as openers and given them as Christmas gifts.
Bill

Permalink Reply by Bill Harvey on November 30, 2010 at 20:54

Howdy Rob,

A whiile back I came across a GOB who fixed organs. He had a mess of quarter sawn oak he was looking to get rid of. Beautiful stuff, but quarter sawn chesnut ?!? Must be beautiful. No such thing here in Colorado, but we do have a mess of beetle killed lodge pole pine. Pretty enough I guess (blue colored !) if you like pine. (I don't.) And you don't need it more'n about 6" wide. Colorado is essentially a desert and wood has to come on a truck. Barn-wood has to come that'a way too. (Seems to me that about 40 years ago, my family got a TV from one set or other of grandparents and it had two doors. Pretty amaizing for it's day. I've seen some od these re-worked TV cabinets. (As fish bowls?) From the day cabinet making was a craft -rather'n programming a CNC machine.

Anyway, thanks for your kind words re. my humble efforts at making sawdust.

Permalink Reply by Rob Gregg on November 30, 2010 at 21:37

I know whatcha mean Bill! I'm still old school, no CNC machines in my shop and I still actually use joinery and very few mechanical fastners. It's the way my Grandad taught me to build 'em and if it was good enough for him, it's good enough for me. Anyway, American Chestnut is extinct now but looked very similar to White Oak. (it used to be called "poor mans oak") Back in the day when it was plentiful, there were alot of the old barns here in the Ozarks built with it. It was almost as weather and bug resistant as White Oak but only about 1/4 the cost. Back then, the timbers came from very old growth forests and typically the growth rings are no more than 1/32"-1/16" apart. It gives the lumber a look you just don't get with the controlled forest timbers you see nowadays. It is beautiful stuff and I have my sights set on 2 other barns but the owners just ain't quite ready to give 'em up yet. I'd trade 'em a good ol' Barlow knife for 'em. LOL! Maybe someday. Take care, Rob.

Bill Harvey said:

Howdy Rob,

A whiile back I came across a GOB who fixed organs. He had a mess of quarter sawn oak he was looking to get rid of. Beautiful stuff, but quarter sawn chesnut ?!? Must be beautiful. No such thing here in Colorado, but we do have a mess of beetle killed lodge pole pine. Pretty enough I guess (blue colored !) if you like pine. (I don't.) And you don't need it more'n about 6" wide. Colorado is essentially a desert and wood has to come on a truck. Barn-wood has to come that'a way too. (Seems to me that about 40 years ago, my family got a TV from one set or other of grandparents and it had two doors. Pretty amaizing for it's day. I've seen some od these re-worked TV cabinets. (As fish bowls?) From the day cabinet making was a craft -rather'n programming a CNC machine.

Anyway, thanks for your kind words re. my humble efforts at making sawdust.

Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on November 30, 2010 at 23:36

Peach Pits, brother Bill.

Can't make much else, (can't cut a straight line. LOL).

Bill Harvey said:

Dun'know what pits are, but I love 'em little cigar boxes too. Bought a mess of them -alas, innocent of cigars- from Neptune Cigars, (http://www.neptunecigar.com/), for about fi'ty cents each. Plan to addr feets (little wooden knobs) and knobs (turned brass) as openers and given them as Christmas gifts.
Bill

Permalink Reply by Gerald Hines on December 1, 2010 at 0:56

Dang this thread has taken a weird turn, to talking about collecting stuff.

Permalink Reply by Bill Harvey on December 1, 2010 at 6:31

Sweet Jasus JJ! With your own little hands? That's some fussy-tiny work. If I can't make something with my table saw or by banging on it w/ a hammer -it ain't getting made.

Permalink Reply by Rob Gregg on December 1, 2010 at 6:37

I may be wrong, but I can imagine Miss Ruth and her "Lady" friends are collectors too. Not too sure if Me, Bill or anyone else could build a display case or cabinet to house the things they collect though. LOL! And I'm not real sure I even want to think about their Christmas list of accesories that would go along with their hobby. :-) Nuff said?

Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on December 1, 2010 at 12:14

Yep. I can't build much of nothing. My father-in-law tried to teach me some, but I'm almost incapable of cutting a straight line.

Bill Harvey said:

Sweet Jasus JJ! With your own little hands? That's some fussy-tiny work. If I can't make something with my table saw or by banging on it w/ a hammer -it ain't getting made.

Permalink Reply by Gerald Hines on December 1, 2010 at 14:39

Well you know she just wanted to be friends. lol

Don Reeves said:

its Ruth's NEGATIVE aura acting upon these misguided passages

Gerald Hines said:

Dang this thread has taken a weird turn, to talking about collecting stuff.

Permalink Reply by Bill Harvey on December 1, 2010 at 16:14

Have to ask -and I know I'm talking to a knife guy, but truth to tell, does Mr. Dremel figure into peach pit carving? And ain't they ever loving hard -'em pits?
B

Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on December 1, 2010 at 23:20

I've visited with Mr. Dremel before. Still have to from time to time (especially when havin to clean out the inside of a black walnut), but I like the relaxation that comes with using the knife. My carving bag has anywhere from 7 - 10 pocket knives (no fancy "carvin" knives here) and 3 different sizes of files, along with my diamond cards for sharpening. Like Rob said the outher day, guess I'm a bit "old school" too.

Bill Harvey said:

Have to ask -and I know I'm talking to a knife guy, but truth to tell, does Mr. Dremel figure into peach pit carving? And ain't they ever loving hard -'em pits?
B

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