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Madrone Shrine

Ajahn Nyaniko with Eric, who helped fell the Madrone

The Madrone

Where the shrine came from

Chainsaw milling the madrone tree

Taking madrone to the kiln

Madrone in back of truck

From the kiln

Shaping with a sawzall

Rough shaping with files

Roughly cut slabs

Decision to be made

Routing the edge

Andy and Tahn Jivako

Making plugs for larger holes

Routing the joint

Routing the joint

Action shot

Shaping the spline

Installing the splines

Applying the glue

Shrine glued together

Starting to wet sand the bottom

Wet sanding tutorial

Wet sanding bottom and edges

Finished bottom of shrine

Wet sanding edges

Wet sand working the edges

Top, first coat of oil

Top figuring after first coat of oil

Starting to wet sand the top

Top with one coat of oil, showing rear of shrine

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