Quickies

Truly a quickie project today.

Bought a box of wood planes at a church sale.

Washed them.

Set them out on screens to dry.

Five wooden ones and one metal.

In fair condition.

Left for errands.












 

Arrived home to find all of them gleaming in the sun.

Chucks had decided to rub them down with tung oil for me.

He is such a sweetie.

Sometimes.



 

Found in Booth W-10, Riverfront Antique Mall, North Augusta, South Carolina.

$25 each.

Perfect gift for someone. 





I'd hang them on the wall for shelf brackets.


See y'all!

Tung Oil Trees

You get your tung oil straight out of the can, Right?

Did you know how it got there?

Down one block here in Aiken, South Carolina, is a line of tung oil trees.

Back in the summer I posted a photo on Instagram of the fruit growing on the tree.

The first blush of color on the green fruit.

The photo from August shows a lot of color.

The trees stand about twenty feet high and have lovely large leaves.

The trees are mostly round in shape.

Last week I noticed the fruit had ripened and was falling to the ground.

The color is very pretty, but they quickly continue ripening ...

Until they are brown and ready for processing.

At this point the city usually comes along to gather them up before ruining the cars parked underneath. 

The fruit will split easily into three to seven pieces.

Peel off the outer husk to get ...

These hard-covered wedges.



















 

Peel the hard cover and the paper-like cover off to reveal ...

A very hard kernel.

Yes, it is covered by yet another hard shell.

I smashed it between two bricks to reveal (FINALLY!) the inner white core.

In the processing plant this would be pressed for the oil.

So now you know where your tung oil originates.

I'll never bemoan the price of tung oil again.

A whole lot of work.

Interesting facts about the tung oil tree can be found HERE.

Like "tung" is Chinese for "heart" - the leaves are heart-shaped.


See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Amaze Me Monday #187

Turquoise and Tung Oil

After shopping in the shed, Chucks, Calvin (my helper) and I got right to work cleaning, painting, and tagging things for the shop. It was a time for turquoise and tung oil for toolboxes and wooden crates.

I wanted them distressed and colorful.

As you can see Calvin got a little too distressed when the can of paint he was shaking jarred loose and paint flew everywhere.

Luckily it is my favorite color because 


I have turquoise polka dots all over the patio.

I did not have a before of the toolbox - it is a large one - needed a lot of cleaning - has neat brackets on the side to hold a pipe.

Just in case you need a pipe!

The two small crates once held machine knives and the two-sided crate is a tool caddy.

Sorry I cut the small box out of the photo.

 Here it is.

I just wanted a slap and a dash of the turquoise inside these.  

Just a punch of color.

 All day I was tung oiling everything.

I was loving the look of the turquoise against the warmth of the wood.

Plus I did want to preserve the labels and stamps on the crates.

 I love this group so-o-o-o-o much, but I promised everything pulled out of the shed would go to be sold at the antique mall.

And I kept my promise.

But, Chucks, look how cute they look sitting in the yard.  

Just imagine them filled with begonias or geraniums.

He did not budge.

So if you are in the need of a turquoise and tung oiled wooden box, go to Riverfront Antique Mall.

They are there - I promise!

I was busy again today with the cleaning and preparing.

I thought with all the storm damage, I would have some extra time before the work crew gets here to remodel the shed, but the guy came by today to say he was almost through with my neighbor's shed and will probably get to ours next week.

NEXT WEEK!?!  LIKE REALLY, NEXT WEEK!?!

I hope that is just home improvement talk for next month.

See y'all!

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A Bannister And A Pair Of Yokes

There once was a barrister and two yokels ...

No, that's not right.

There once was a bannister and two yokes!

 

All were discovered during my Shopping The Shed excursion.

Here they are - a bit rusty, a bit crusty, and a bit dry.


What to do, what to do.

Bring out the tung oil and start feeding that dried out wood.

Go over the metal parts too.

See the difference in the yoke pieces?

Well, I probably should have put them on something other than a milk crate to photograph.

But believe me there is a difference.

Look at that bannister - all rich wood with chippy white paint.

I did have to use several coats of the tung oil.

I know all of you are drooling over my nifty little what-cha-callit.

It is a heater I use for a table on the patio.







Rusty.

Crusty.

Chippy.

No, I am not including this in my cleaning spree.

Sorry!

The bannister and the yokes have departed for the booths.

More transformations of the junk, er, treasures I found while shopping in my shed coming up.

See y'all!

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