Thread: Fireplace mantel

This I did for a paying customer. They brought me the beam
and wanted it cut to size and cleaned up and some pockets
cut for mounting blocks.

It was from a barn built around 1850 and is Douglas fir. We
checked the radius of the rings and determined the tree was
nine feet in diameter where this piece was cut, with 78 rings
in this piece the tree was around 1600 years old.

They are going to do the finish on it them selfs. I just sanded
and wire brushed all the gray weathering off. It had a big split
and was not stable so I put some one inch oak dowels through
it to hold it together.

The fireplace is eight feet wide with a four foot fire box and goes
to the top of a seventeen foot ceiling, The house is in the 5.5 million
dollar range.