Christmas Gift from Scrap

amazing ideas to say the least.

Pretty darn awesome Patriot! Wish I had the knack to craft such things. My wife has all that talent. lol.

Good stuff! An thanks for sharing!

Sirscrapalot - The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. - Elbert Hubbard

Nice cutting board. What kind of fish do you catch that use that size of cutting board. An emery board would work for most of the fish I catch.

Originally Posted by Patriot76

Nice cutting board. What kind of fish do you catch that use that size of cutting board. An emery board would work for most of the fish I catch.

It's only just shy of 6" across. I didn't measure length, so I'm going to guess 36". It's nice and heavy so It shouldn't move around much.
should be well suited for walleye and crappie, my grandpa's fish of choice.

Would do just fine for perch and any other panfish too. Gotta remember that you flip the filet out so it becomes twice as long

sealed with semi gloss poly clear coat, 4 good coats after cleaning it up and sanding it a little to bring some "luster" back into it.

P76- Nice work. Interesting stuff. How many horse shoe-y things do you think you have in the house??

P.S. Is your MiL's cattle East or West River?? I'm assuming probably west. I don't see too many brands East River.

Patriot all good stuff and not scrap anymore. I think I like that re purposing approach as much as scraping.

Wow such talent on this board ^.^

After Dakotarog's post a walk around the cabin was in order. The first picture is our choice of curtain rods. They are made out of four horse shoes, one as the base and another cut in half as a hook. Reebar is used as the rod.



This is a mirror made from barn wood and an old closet door mirror with Conchos and lace from an old saddle.



This is a mirror framed by an old horse collar. Can you tell the wife loves mirrors? She should because she looks good in them.

A little perspective on the curtain rods. This is one of many quilted pieces that hang around the place with the same design as the curtain rods.

Originally Posted by Metalbestos

Is the harnes used for the wine rack also a horse collar ? I have a few of them that could find a new life . Love the pictures
You have a beautiful home

The wine rack in post #1 is actually four Hames welded upside down. In post # 12 the collar mirror shows the Hames as they were used on the collar by draft horses. The original Hames were made of wood and hard to come by. The horse collar mirror was not an original idea, but one borrowed from others. A horse collar mirror with wooden Hames goes for as much as $ 1,500 on ebay.

Disclaimer: I do not claim to be the originator of any of these gifts, many of these ideas were borrowed from others. In the old days farmers and ranchers did not have T.V. and would spend their evenings creating such things for practical and artistic reasons.

Early it was stated that this has been a Christmas tradition for 26 years. The wife informed me it has been a tradition for over 30 years. To prove it she took me on a tour to show me some of the other presents. How time flies when you are having fun.

This is a picture of our welcome sign. The support is oil field pipe and the welcome sign was commercially made using a plasma cutter at the machine shop where I worked for a year. The cross brace is an old yoke from a horse drawn plow harness. The original design used old machinery chain and milk cans. These were replaced with the rope and buckets last year.

This is the cabin mailbox made out of an old water pump handle and the weather vane on top can be barely seen against the back drop of the hills. The next picture shows the outline of the weather vane against the cabin. A plasma cutter and computer program was used to make the weather vane. The machine shop allows me to borrow their equipment for special projects.

The mailbox itself was covered by a professional with pictures of the family and our favorite horses.

The other mailbox in the picture was abandoned by neighbors several years ago.

Some simple projects early in the tradition included hat racks and belt racks. The first picture shows the basic horseshoe design for gun racks, curtain rods, coat hooks and hat racks.



The next two pictures shows hat racks made from horseshoes and rebar.





Next simple design for cap rack because you never have enough room to hang your cap.





And last a belt rack using horseshoes and regular rivets, nothing fancy but serves the purpose.