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WELCOME! From Michigan. :welcome2:
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The first one the light colored tall one I’m still working on. I still have some sanding to do on it. The dark one is actually a cedar railroad tie that used to be part of a railroad back in the 1800s that ran through an area that they ended up damming up the river and filling it up. So the railroad track is still under the lake but a few years ago when it dried up, I went out there and found this piece. It was one of the ties and it had been eroded in a beautiful way It had all these indentations in it And then I did a lot of sanding and carving on it to get it to where it is now and then I filled certain areas in with the black resin, and the interesting thing is whenever I sand on it I can smell the creosote coming from the railroad tie.
 
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Cedarman said:
The first one the light colored tall one I’m still working on. I still have some sanding to do on it. The dark one is actually a cedar railroad tie that used to be part of a railroad back in the 1800s that ran through an area that they ended up damming up the river and filling it up. So the railroad track is still under the lake but a few years ago when it dried up, I went out there and found this piece. It was one of the ties and it had been eroded in a beautiful way It had all these indentations in it And then I did a lot of sanding and carving on it to get it to where it is now and then I filled certain areas in with the black resin, and the interesting thing is whenever I sand on it I can smell the creosote coming from the railroad tie.
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Welcome, amd nice work! And great story on the dark piece, but it begs the question... does it need to drift to be called driftwood?
 
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Welcome from Crossville TN. I have made a couple shelves using driftwood bases and have a knife handle from a piece of scrap Osage driftwood. Did a couple table bases from cedar stump drifts. Not anything to write home about but it was fun.
 
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