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After all the sawing, sanding,
and molding the edges, came the finishing process. Doing things the old
way, I used black walnut hulls for the dark stain along with brass grandfather
clock type weights to create ease of movement. In addition I used my gun
stock brass inlay experience to do some fancy inlay work on the crown of
the easel. giclee giclee
Once all this was completed we went back
to the tree stump and cut out a sample to count the tree rings and age
the tree. The rings date the tree to a time when, as a sapling, it could
have been witness to the indigenous people
from this area who lost a stone arrow point near the spot where this tree
grew. The incredible art forms of this old culture still intrigue me today
and lead to a greater respect for the degree of difficulty they experienced
in producing such beauty with a minimum of tools and mediums.
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