Covid creation and other tasks
Submitted by sunshine on Wed, 2020-05-13 15:32
Didn't totally waste my time whilst observing isolation protocols, mounted a 1.2 metre saw fish saw on a piece of feature banksia and also started repainting the interior of the house. The latter is not something I enjoy.
NB. The sawfish saw is around fifty years old, got caught in a pro Barra fishermen's net out of Derby and regretfully died but I thought I should do it justice
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Faulkner Family
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Bigger the painting stuff.
Bigger the painting stuff. Saw looks good on the wood. Well done
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
jighead
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Nice mate the saw looks great. I reckon that would look good on the wall.
sea-kem
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The saw in perfect
The saw in perfect condition, nice mount Gordon will look awesome on a wall.
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SeperateKnob
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Wow nice! that looks like a
Wow nice! that looks like a huge saw. Do you know how big the rest of it was?
sunshine
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Sorry but no
The saw was passed onto me by a good mate who spent a lot of time back in the late 60's early 70's at Cape Levique.
The saw measured 1.23 metres and I have always wondered the same. I was also given a tiny one, again perfect, which is perhaps 150mm long and the saw is as sharp as. Have seen large saw fish in the Kimberleys but nothing even close to the mounted one
scano
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Great minds think alike
I home taxidermied a marlin bill (it was never going to release well and we used all the fillets etc). It came up pretty sweet and I managed to score a really nice feature piece of wood to mount it from a Carmel / Kalamunda based wood workshop. Came up a treat, wish I could work out how to post a damn pic.
sea-kem
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Use IMGUR Scano. Create an
Use IMGUR Scano. Create an account, load your images. Use the BBcode from the selections on the right hand side and also select large thumbnail for best size to fit on here.
Love the West!
Rick
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Ideas
Cheers for that, now gives me an idea what to with the saw i have been moving from place to place over quite a few years.
Did you treat or coat the saw ?
Mine still in really good nick, but often wondered, if it would be ok with a like a coat of clear lacquer.
Thanks
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sunshine
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The saw is totally untreated
Sanded the banksia all the way down to 440 grit ....smooth as a babies.....then Matt finished with a spray epoxy varnish to really bring out the grain. The wood came from a guy in Baldivis, his shed holds some of the best feature timbers i have ever seen all at good prices.
Rick
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thanks mate
Baldivis just down the road, may have to get creative
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