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milkmansdaughter said:
@CrealCritter, I've got an odd question for you. I don't know much about wood costs, or labor involved in these, but some friends and I have been having a conversation about simple caskets. Could you look at these for me, and tell me if these are marked excessively high for a "green" certification, or is that really an honest fair price? It seems crazy high for a simple rectangular pine box. Maybe I'm the crazy one. http://www.naturescasket.com/
I'd love your opinion!
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Kind of a morbid question... but my honest opinion for something like that shouldn't be very much at al. Perhaps the biggest peice of woodworking is the handles.
 
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Great stuff! Thanks for all the pics.

I was in Scotland once, traveling in rural areas. They had some old stone buildings (including castles) in villages. I remember seeing carvings... and also painted decorations on ceilings in castles — with very similar sorts of design work.

I knew it was Celtic, of course, and I believed at the time that it was all done by Scottish artists and craftsmen. But who knows? The wealthy Scots may have hired Irish artists.
 
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Finding more pictures of stuff I've made over the years. Here is a deck I built for my daughter who is left handed. It's made of bird peck white oak, the bottom rail carvings are supposed to be a dogwood flower. It's a girl's desk so I tried to soften it up with flower carvings. My "softening" skills are not all that susessful, I might add, but the desk is still better than made in china :)

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Better than made in China indeed! Beautiful work in a quality piece of furniture. Love it!
 
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Beautiful work, CC! And one that won't fall apart when you pick it up to move it. That desk is one that can be passed down for many years.
 
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More old pics... My wife has a "thing" for pine so when I remodeled her 12' x 16' kitchen, I built her cabinets out of quartersawn southern yellow pine that I cut on my sawmill and kiln dried, then milled in my wood shop. Yep and trim to match (she love me long time for that!) This was a complete teardown to the studs with new electric, plumbing, windows, sheetrock, paint, etc...

Pics are of the work in progress. Ofcourse my wife wanted the stove in the corner :rolleyes: so I had to get creative with the wall framing, which carried over into the cabinets.

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