Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
I made this as a gift for my nephew this year. This was his second year deer hunting and he finally had the opportunity in the youth gun season to take a couple does. He was mighty proud of them (and got the full experience of getting to butcher them) so I wanted to give him a nice way to display some of his pictures. Don't know if you can tell but in the very center of the frame I put the casing of one of the 44mag shells that he used to bag one of the deer. I finished the frame with golden oak stain and two coats of poly. I wrapped the gift before I thought to take a picture of it but it now has a backing and glass in it Interesting note on the wood. In the woods behind my house is a very old fallen down barn/shed. As fortune would have it when the thing fell the roof covered much of the wood. We purchased that property from my wife's grandmother and she says the building was down when she came into the family over 60 years ago. With the assumption that the building back then may have lasted 30 years or so (just a guess but there are barns in my area that are well over 100 years old) then we guess the building was possible built around the time of the depression. The oak I salvaged was old and moss covered but cleaned up really nice. I'd love to eventually make a guitar or mandolin from it but for now I think this piece will be appreciated in its second life