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As you know from my last post, my daughter Tracey was
getting married. And with that, I wanted to make the newlyweds something
special, but what exactly? Then it hit me, how about a nice plaque with
their wedding invitation on it. But I didn't want this plaque to be like
the ones I've made in the past, this one needed to be a little
different.
The theme for her wedding was a combination of
renaissance, medieval and whimsical, which made for some great looking
attire that many people had on (myself included). So with that theme in mind, I'm going to
make this plaque more from the renaissance period, at least that's my
plan. I starting looking at all the wood that I had
because I wanted something with some kind of decent grain, not too many
knots and it would need to be stained when I'm finished. And because I want to
use stain, black walnut was not on the species list.
Working With Wood What
I finally decided on using (believe it or not) was douglas fir. Yes,
common two by four lumber that you can get just about anywhere. Well I
had a couple of sticks laying around so I choose the sections that I
wanted and ran those through my thickness planer.
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