It's Boy Scout week at the Taggart home. Every year, the Occoneechee Council Relationships Committee (J. Taggart, Chair) hosts a banquet for each boy in the Council who earned the religious award of his particular denomination during the prior year. This year, the banquet will be held at the Cary 1st/2nd Ward building. A few years ago, we were looking for something we could give the boys, and we decided to give them a plaque with Friberg's "Prayer at Valley Forge" affixed. Not having any money, we wondered if we could make them ourselves. Turns out we could. We plane the wood. We cut it to specific dimensions. We rout the edge. We sand it. We etch the words "Duty to God" in it (well, actually, someone with a lazer machine does that). We glue the picture on it and apply a few coats of clear finish. Not bad, eh?
The wood this year was rough cut cherry and black walnut.
My favorite tool: The DeWalt compound Miter
By the time we got to the sanding phase, we had a pretty good system going.
We finished about 80 plaques in about 3 hours. Wesley wasn't much help, but everyone else was great!
The finished product (last year's model).
2 comments:
Curious: Did the boys who are not LDS get a different inscription?
Very nice! Did I ever tell you that in my "other Life" I was invited to Arnold Friberg's home for an unveiling of his painting of the First Vision. I saw the original Valley Forge painting on Mr. Friberg's wall. Hi Ben!!!
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