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Rawge's Collection
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HERE ARE A FEW OF THE MANY CROSSES I'VE MADE |
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| 6-foot wooden cross in my flower garden outside my bedroom window. This cross was made from an old piece of wood I found and has that "old rugged cross" look. | I made this wind chime a few years ago. Recently we found a white dove that had been electrocuted and managed to nurse it back to health. After releasing it, it decided to make its new home on this cross. | I was honored to be asked to build a cross for the sanctuary in our church. My family and some friends from the youth group helped through the process. | I used some 125-year old wood that was salvaged from an old barn that had fallen down. I joined the wood with a traditional ship-lap joint. |
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| The cross is a Latin shape and is about 9-feet tall and weighs over 120 pounds. | The old wood is beautiful... | ... with many cracks, nail holes, and other pieces of its history. | Here is a picture of the cross on the sanctuary wall. |
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| I was blessed to be part of a group that built over 3,000 white crosses for a 9/11 and Iraq war memorial. | The event culminated with a day of prayer on September 11th. It was very moving to see the emotion as people walked among the crosses. | This is a Milagro (miracle) cross that I made several years ago. I bought the milagro charms from Mexico where this cross is very popular. | I built this Milagro cross a very long time ago, as I was just learning woodwork. The milagro charms are made from melted-down coins, spoons, brass fittings, old jewelry, etc. |
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| I made this wooden box for a close friend. It was made from an old shipping pallet. The box is constructed with no nails. | Of course it had to have a cross, so I carved a Latin cross on the inside of the lid | I was inspired by recent trip to Mexico, after seeing many beautiful Mexican wood crosses. To emulate their art, I carved a cross made from a rare wood, know locally as "two-by-four" | The cross is a Latin Fleuree shape. To complete the floral pattern, I carved a couple of flower rosettes. I mounted it in a heavy base made from joined 4'x4's. |
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| I added some pretty Mexican colors and it turned out nice. I probably won't be invited to any Mexican wood art shows, but I enjoyed making it. | I always wanted a rock polisher so my son and I made one - a giant one that polishes about 75 lbs of rocks at a time! The noisy machine works 24-hrs a day and takes ~ 2 months to complete. The machine turns ordinary rocks into beautiful stones. | I then use a stencil and a diamond-tipped engraver to etch a cross pattern on the rocks. The etched surface will accept paint but paints rubs right off of the perfectly smooth surface of the polished rock. | Once painted and re-buffed, they look nice. I give the rocks away to kids and they really loves them. I've used them at Sunday school and kids love to take them home. I saw one little girl about a month after I gave her one and she still had it in her pocket! |
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| These three crosses are for the Easter production at our church. They are so big, I had to build them in the yard. | The tallest cross is 12 feet and the others are 10 feet. They will represent the 3 crosses at Mount Golgotha | Each cross has a small pedestal for someone to stand on during the production and large spikes bent so that their hands can rest inside to give the illusion of spikes through their palms. | We found an old cross in our church attic . It was probably something put together for a production of some sort. I decided to try to rebuild it into something for Easter with traditional Easter colors. |
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| My son and Steven, a close friend helped rebuild it. We replaced the bad wood, reinforced the remaining wood, painted it and added a yellow trim. | We mounted it onto a stepped base with brown vinyl and decorative tacks to hide the heavy wood platform. It looks really nice! | This is the finished cross in the foyer of our sanctuary. It will look nice outdoors at the sunrise service. | My son and I made a kite for our church's annual kite-flying day and picnic. It was made from recycled materials (old disposable tablecloth, fishing line, old wood, etc) and it actually flew!! |
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| I made this cross for the youth group at our church. They have services in an old warehouse. Their group is called Route 1 Ministries - it's not just a destination, but a journey. I made a wooden cross and covered it in old license plates from all over the US. | This is a wooden box I made for Floresta, one of my favorite ministries. It is made from re-claimed wood and has a cross and Psalm 24 scripture engraved inside. Visit www.floresta.org | ||
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