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My girlfriend’s dog of 13 years passed away not too long ago. When she got the bad news from the vet, she had asked that I build her a grave marker. Well, I had been looking for a small project that used all wood joinery so two birds with one stone and all that. The wood used was bald cypress from a local sawmill. Not sure why my images always get rotated when I post them… :shrug:
Layout:
Roughly cut pieces:
Partial assembly:
Instead of draw boring with wooden pegs, Japanese joinery sometimes uses these tapered keys that lock in the drawbars. They’re called shachi-sen and are made of a harder wood than the parent material. These were from scraps of Osage Orange.
And the finishing touches; my first try at carving wasn’t terrible but really nothing to brag about.
Looks very good! The pup would be proud.
Really cool! I’m sure she was blown away with what you did. Very nice work
great job, also sorry for your loss…..
Dude that came really nice man! Sorry to hear about UR girlfriends dog…
sorry about ur dog. but u did a great job on the cross it looks really nice.
Sorry for you and your girlfriend. Dogs are really important to people like us. Jason is right, the little guy would’ve been proud!
Sorry about the loss of your pet. The cross did turn out really good.