Repurposing a small Cedar tree

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BrianBDH

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You know how you see something and think "I can do something with that!"

Four weeks ago I had a dead cedar tree standing in the woods behind my house. Not large, maybe 5-6 inch diameter at the base.
Three weeks ago my son cut down the cedar because he had just sharpened his chain saw and wanted to test it. I saw it laying there and that it wasn't rotten. That's when the thought struck me. So I cut it into two lengths of about 7 feet and threw it under the porch.
Two weeks ago I had a couple of hours and an idea of what to make. So pulled out the little cedar "log" and used my table saw to "mill" it and shape it. Three hours later (and some hooks from HD) and I had a new great smelling coat rack for my office.

I know it's not heirloom quality, but I made it from a tree! Which is pretty cool to me.

Sorry about the skewed picture.


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Clay
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What a wonderful idea! I have some smaller trees that need clearing around the shed outback this winter. I'll have to try my hand at something similar with those. A friend down the road has a small mill. We'll see what we can get out of them and then put it up to dry.
 
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Steve Martin

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Good job! That's how our ancestors did things. If you make benches, this sized cedar makes great legs, especially if you have a shave ores and draw knife. Keep up the good work.
 
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Bruce Swanson
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Very wise use of a dead tree. You have a treen piece! See the first part of the attached article. Treen is a thing, a word describing a thing, that many of us indulge in. Enjoy your treen!






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Nineteenth century carved walnut treen snuff box


Treen, literally "of a tree" is a generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of wood. Treen is distinct from furniture, such as chairs, and cabinetry, as well as clocks and cupboards.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] Before the late 17th-century, when silver, pewter, and ceramics were introduced for tableware, most small household items, boxes and tableware were carved from wood. Today, treen is highly collectable for its beautiful patina and tactile appeal.
Anything from wooden plates and bowls, snuff boxes and needle cases, spoons and stay busks to shoehorns and chopping boards can be classed as treen. Domestic and agricultural wooden tools are also usually classed with treen.
Before the advent of cheap metal wares in industrialized societies, and later plastic, wood played a much greater part as the raw material for common objects. Turning and carving were the key manufacturing techniques. The selection of wood species was important, and close-grained native hardwoods such as box, beech and sycamore were particularly favoured, with occasional use of exotics, such as lignum vitae for mallet heads.
Wooden objects have survived relatively less well than those of metal or stone, and their study by archaeologists and historians has been somewhat neglected until recently. Their strongly functional and undecorated forms have, however, been highly regarded by designers and collectors.
The scholarly study of treen was greatly advanced by Edward Pinto (1901–1972), who started collecting in his childhood and wrote a definitive book on the subject. In 1965, when Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery purchased his collection, it contained over 7,000 items.
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  • Pinto, Edward (1949). Treen or small Woodware.
  • Pinto, Edward (1961). Wooden Bygones Of Smoking And Snuff Taking.
  • Pinto, Edward (1962). The Craftsman in Wood.
  • Pinto, Edward (1970). Tunbridge and Scottish Souvenir Woodware.
  • Levi, Jonathan; Young, Robert (1998). Treen for the Table. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-284-4.
  • Burrroughs, Katrina. Treen, Homes and Antiques, http://www.homesandantiques.com/feature/treen
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