Post #152430 by finkdaddy on Tue, Apr 12, 2005 10:29 AM

On 2005-04-12 10:17, Benzart wrote:
FinkDaddy, this one is your best yet. You have a really great eye for design. This guy looks great. What kind of wood is he?

I'm honestly not sure. I assume it's pine, but I suppose it could be anything. It has a very light colored grain and is pretty soft. It's fairly old wood (I wouldn't doubt if it's 30 years old or more!), so it's dry and really easy to work with. It's strange stuff to stain though. The areas that are carved even with the grain hardly take the stain at all and remain almost shiney, while everything else soaks up the stain like a sponge.

I got the wood from a machine that was stored in the warehouse at work that was being thrown away. It had all these wooden rollers on it that are about a foot long. No one could tell me how long the machine was sitting there. All I know is that no one that works there now could remember the machine ever being used, and my company has been around since the '20s. It was some kind of RF heat seal machine.