Curly redwood!

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Last week, Rick Beale dropped off a bunch of wood in my driveway at 2:00 in the morning while on his way to the airport. What a crazy thing to wake up in the morning and have a load of curly redwood waiting in front of my garage!
Im not sure what Im going to do with it yet, there are some beautiful pieces here.

There are two I like the best. I think I want to make something that shows off the bark on this big piece.

And this monster. Ive never had such a huge chunk of redwood. Or any other wood for that matter. I dont want to saw it into boards...its too cool like this. Just need to come up with something substantial. Milling it is going to be tricky. I might decide to turn pieces of it. Ideas?
Thanks again Rick!

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Redwood hanging planters

Here are a couple of hanging planters I made using two redwood boards. My local lumberyard sells six foot "fence boards" in a couple different widths. I used one 8 inch wide board for each of these planters. The great thing about those boards is that they are pretty cheap. Each one cost a little over $6.00.
I can tell you this, it was a lot of repetitive cutting! I guess the key is just to work out some sort of assembly line and keep organized.

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Scroll saw box and more on the redwood

Ive basically been puttering in my shop today with no clear idea of a project to make. I decided to try and make the worlds tiniest band saw box. Well, maybe no record, but its a pretty good exercise using my scroll saw, not a band saw. So I guess its technically a scroll saw box. I just finished gluing it up. Later Ill sand it and finish it. Heres the rough box:

And the drawer:

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I want to do something with this cool chunk of redwood. If you have any ideas, let me know. Have any of you carved large chunks into something? Im thinking about getting an angle grinder and giving it a shot on this.

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Wood bits

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