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Father's Day AC Sled gift |
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AC7060IL ![]() Orange Level ![]() Joined: 19 Aug 2012 Location: central IL Points: 3499 |
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Back in 1988, my Dad hand built this old time wooden sled for me for a christmas present. It's middle board was painted a reddish-orange then. We (our 4 kids, their friends, plus my wife & I) all sledded many a hills & snow drifts with it. So, decades took their toll, kids grew up, & it became a rustic christmas decoration near our front door. It needed refinished.
To my surprise this morning as a Father's Day gift, my loving wife presented what you see below to me. She & her step-Dad, refinished it. My step-father in law sanded it, did some wood filler, & sealed it. My wife painted the orange board & did the AC logo by hand. Step-father in law did the lettering. He used to do door letter painting back in his high school years (late 1930s-1940s). ![]() A little old lettering with the newer logo. ![]() |
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allisorange ![]() Silver Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Location: perkins, michig Points: 381 |
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Very nice job. keep it inside.
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acd21man ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Jan 2010 Location: tn Points: 831 |
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That's very nice and thoughtful. I never understood how those worked . Around here we have to use one that doesn't have those runners our snow must be different
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darrel in ND ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Location: Hebron, ND Points: 8692 |
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Now ole Shameless will be chomping at the bit to fire up his snow machine, so you can try that out. It sure does look nice. Darrel
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Rog(NCWI) ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Aniwa.WI Points: 243 |
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That is a neat sled. I wish I would of kept my first sled. Although it had steel runners I used it a lot sliding down the town road hills. My cousin had one like that, that his dad built.
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shameless dude ![]() Orange Level ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 Apr 2017 Location: east NE Points: 13607 |
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that is cool! yep...I am itching to brings that machine out...but there's still time yets!
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