Before and after

[Don Case]

I fed the Blue Jays that planted the nut that grew into the Hazel tree that I cut to turn into a ship.
Forty years waiting and four hours cutting turned this into 107 20"x .23x .055" deck planks.

 

[Dave Stevens (Lumberyard)]

a teacher in model ship building once told me a true scratch builder plants his own tree and will harvest the wood.

 

[Dave Stevens (Lumberyard)]

that was a quote from Robert Bruckshaw who built model ships for the Smithsonian.

 

[Don Case]

I actually encouraged the suckers to make into bows but quit that and started making ships. Does that still make me a true modeler? It took 12 years to grow into 3 1/2" logs about 10' long. I grew three of them.

 

[Dave Stevens (Lumberyard)]

I actually encouraged the suckers to make into bows but quit that and started making ships. Does that still make me a true modeler? It took 12 years to grow into 3 1/2" logs about 10' long. I grew three of them.

looks like you did go far and beyond what is expected of a true woodworker
Far as i ever got was to harvest standing timber, cut it, dry it and mill it into lumber. Never tried to grow it though!

 

[Jolley Roger]

Never tried to grow it though!

I've got some boxwood growing, hopefully my great grand children will be into ship modelling!

 

[clogger]

Wasn’t that the problem with Oak Trees! Great Britain’s ship building industry 17th 18th Century hadn’t heard of sustainability! Takes at least 100 years for an Oak Tree to mature I think.