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    Default New Fly Tying Desk

    After months of contemplation and planning I have finally got my new fly tying desk. It is made out of walnut with popular as the secondary wood. It was built for me by a local cabinet maker that I discovered during my years at work.

    The walnut was collected/cut by my father and I over a span of 20 or so years. I have been holding on to this wood for a lot of years for a special project, and I think I have found it.

    The desk measures 48 inches wide by 27 inches deep. The chest of drawers is 18 inches high and contains 18 seperate drawers.

    I have attached a couple of pictures...





    Thanks for looking

    Brad
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    Hi Brad,

    That's a great looking desk! To have it made out of wood that you've saved for so long just makes it that much more of an instant airloom. What are the knobs made from or out of ? I've always liked desks that had lots of drawers or cubby holes to stick stuff in. You can never have too many. Yours look like they are almost airtight!

    Regards,
    Mark

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    That is very nice work. I hope it doesnt stay that clean for long.

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    Beautiful !
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    Could it be sent to Hawaii???????

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Vendon View Post
    Hi Brad,

    That's a great looking desk! To have it made out of wood that you've saved for so long just makes it that much more of an instant airloom. What are the knobs made from or out of ? I've always liked desks that had lots of drawers or cubby holes to stick stuff in. You can never have too many. Yours look like they are almost airtight!

    Regards,
    Mark
    Mark, the knobs are shed antler crowns.

    Brad
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    Brad,

    Great looking desk. Should be excellent as a tying desk. This is also the cleanest it will ever be.

    Larry ---sagefisher---

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    This is just spectacular. I thought it was beautiful when I saw the pictures, but now that I've read about the origins of the wood, it's even better. Just terrific!
    Hugh

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    Thanks for the pics Kaboom.


    That is truly a beautiful tying desk. Now you will have to get to work mess it up a bit lol lol

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    Hugh,

    I even slipped in a piece of walnut that my grandfather had cut at least 50 years ago. I guess you could call me a wood freak. I have gathered small pieces of walnut, maple and several other woods form all over the place. A couple of the rods I have built have reel reat spacers that came from Gates Lodge wood pile! Rusty told me that he cut the wood himself. I think it is a neet thing to use things like that in your projects. To me, it gives them more meaning.

    Although I did not have a piece of wood from my Mother's Father, I do have his old tying vice. It will have a home in one of the drawers.

    Brad
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