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Pretty awesome heeler! Nice use of an old barrel and has a nice history to it. Is that the bung hole on your top headrest stave?
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Yeap I wanted it to be noticable so I put it up top. Thx for the accolades.
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"Ok so this is the second one thats coming right along. Should be done shortly. I had to stand up striaght for a while so I took a few pics.  "
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"I took pics from the back so I could prove that they really did come from a barrel. You can see the rusty strap marks. From this angle only one has a bung but from the front they both do and thats cause I added it to the other so they would be uniform.   "
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"This is adding the seat and it shows how I layed it out, not real mind bending if you think about it. Also you can see I added a fake bung on this one -- I just used a 1 1/4"" hole saw and just scarred the top then used a small chisel to clean out the middle. From a distance it appears uniform.  "
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"And so after 2 coats of polyurathane my old Jack Daniels whiskey barrel has a new lease on life and it should last for another year or two at least. I wont leave them out in the weather they will live on my front porch so if any of ya'll pass by and wanna give em a rock just stop on in and we'll pass around a jug!!!!!  "
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I actually have a rather large wood working shop at home so I can appreciate the work you just did. I really like the simple design that you used for the chair. It looks both comfortable and pretty! Way to go!
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Hey Heeler GREAT JOB on those chairs. Looks like you've done that kind of thing before.
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"Thx guys...being poor white trash I've always had to make my own stuff, I even made my own still. Of course I stole the ideas for the still and the chairs from the internet. You can download damn near anything today so really all you need is a little imagination and gumption to get it done. I think my next project is gonna be a parrot, ( thats right I'm gonna steal that idea too...) I dont think I have to have one to run a still but what the hell, It'll be fun and I can get some use out of it for the forseeable future anyway.
If anybody knows where to see a really cool looking parrot that I can copy plz pass on the info.
Thx again........."
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heeler, those chairs look great!
My shop is set up for metal working and between that and all the mechanicing that goes on out there I have no room for wood work. I also use it for processing the deer we harvest. My kids think the shop is just 2400 sq feet of storage space.
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