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    From Gate to Plaque

    Some of you may remember the picture frame I made for my lease land owner from an old wooden gate I saved out of an old fence row on the lease. Here is the gate and the picture frame.
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    I wanted a plaque to mount my best buck from my lease.
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    So, I took a board from the gate, and removed all the nails.
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    Sketched and cut out a pattern.
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      #3
      I didn't have enough board width so I cut a square edge on the board and glued and clamped three together. This is weathered cedar and has some cracks all the way through it so I needed to put a backer board on it to hopefully prevent it "falling apart".
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        #4
        Glue is all dried. Used a belt sander with 80 then 120 grit and sanded the front.
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        Used the cut out to see what it might look like.
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        Used a drill to get a good round finish to the "notches".
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        Crud! Still had a piece try to fall off, Super Glue is amazing stuff!
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          #5
          I forgot to mention I used my band saw to cut this out and my bench top belt sander to finish the edges.
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          I then used a 1/4" quarter round router bit and made a shallow pass around it. After routering it I did one more all around sanding.
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          Then sprayed with Gloss urethane. Letting it cure over night and I'll try to finish it tomorrow. There is a pretty good early morning topwater bite right now so I'm fishing in the morning.
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            #6
            Nice

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              #7
              Looks real nice, cool project.

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                #8
                Looks really great...but tell me why you take real nice weathered wood and try to make it look like New wood. I really like the weathered look.

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                  #9
                  Very nice

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                    #10
                    Nice work!

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                      #11
                      great work!

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                        #12
                        Looks good!

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                          #13
                          Real nice work.

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                            #14
                            Nice work!

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                              #15
                              Really nice job. I might have to do something like this myself.

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