The Woodshop Shed

Oven Squirrels

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Made a bunch of oven squirrels using some boards I had in my shop.Wood used was maple from Lowes, what I think is cocobolo but the sticker was unreadable after spending near a decade on a shelf and getting mostly worn away. The smell when I was sanding it made me think of when I was doing pens and other turnings out of cocobolo. I also have one made of pear from some logs a friend gave me and I milled into rough boards after his ornamental pear tree got taken out in a snow storm in Oct 2021.There is also a squirrel made of oak that came from my firewood pile about 10 years ago that was cut into a rough board and only recently milled into a finished piece of wood.I also have some squirrels made of what could probably be called spalted maple. The maple literally grew in the swamp behind my house and was dying thanks to the amount of water in the ground and was in danger of hitting the barn in the back. We cut down the maple trees which maybe 5-6 inches in diameter and I had been playing with milling rough stock from logs on the bandsaw. Those got stacked and forgotten about for about 10 years. The boards I have left have the insect holes and the coloring on some of them squirrels show where the wood starting to go soft and rot from the inside of the tree. Tried my best to stabilize with some thin superglue on the spots that seemed more punky.The finish is Odie's Wood butter rubbed in, let sit for 2 hours, and then buffed out.

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