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My father passed away last year on May 3rd at the age of 93. One of the events most affecting his life was his service in the Korean War. When my sister assembled his uniform jersey to display at his memorial service, we discovered he has a Bronze Star ribbon that he evidently earned in Korea. His experience there traumatized him and he suffered from nightmares for the early part of his marriage to my mother. But gradually the nearness of the trauma he experienced diminished, until he watched the constant news coverage of the January 6th insurrection, which triggered long-suppressed memories of his time in the Army.He was proud of his service, and it was my honor to take him on one of the Honor flights to Washington DC, where he and a number of veterans were able to visit the memorials specific to their conflicts and their branches of the service.And because of his service, he was entitled, and received military honors at his memorial service.So, I was unsure what to do with the flag from his military honors and the uniform jersey. I was also a bit conflicted as to what these items might have really meant to him -- unfortunately, he is no longer here so that I might ask him. I decided to make a couple of cabinets to house them, and designed them with the assistance of Wendy Maruyama and Matt Hutton. It's been a big effort as I have struggled to do justice to these items which certainly have a lot of meaning to me and possibly had to my father. So, here's the result.The cabinets are made of mahogany with crotch African mahogany veneered door panels. The quarter round mouldings have embedded American flag icons made from maple, bubinga, and ebony. The back panel is veneered with Santos rosewood.Dad, I hope that you would approve.?
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What a great way to honor his service. Beautiful work, I am sure he would approve.
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On Jun 15, 2022, at 15:18, habacomike via groups.io <habacomike@...> wrote:
? My father passed away last year on May 3rd at the age of 93. One of the events most affecting his life was his service in the Korean War. When my sister assembled his uniform jersey to display at his memorial service, we discovered he has a Bronze Star ribbon that he evidently earned in Korea. His experience there traumatized him and he suffered from nightmares for the early part of his marriage to my mother. But gradually the nearness of the trauma he experienced diminished, until he watched the constant news coverage of the January 6th insurrection, which triggered long-suppressed memories of his time in the Army.He was proud of his service, and it was my honor to take him on one of the Honor flights to Washington DC, where he and a number of veterans were able to visit the memorials specific to their conflicts and their branches of the service.And because of his service, he was entitled, and received military honors at his memorial service.So, I was unsure what to do with the flag from his military honors and the uniform jersey. I was also a bit conflicted as to what these items might have really meant to him -- unfortunately, he is no longer here so that I might ask him. I decided to make a couple of cabinets to house them, and designed them with the assistance of Wendy Maruyama and Matt Hutton. It's been a big effort as I have struggled to do justice to these items which certainly have a lot of meaning to me and possibly had to my father. So, here's the result.The cabinets are made of mahogany with crotch African mahogany veneered door panels. The quarter round mouldings have embedded American flag icons made from maple, bubinga, and ebony. The back panel is veneered with Santos rosewood.Dad, I hope that you would approve.?
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Hi Mike,
A great way to honor your Dad and we are grateful for his service. Good job on design and execution. The flags in opposing directions on the 2 cabinets caught my attention. Obviously, intentional as it would have been easier to make it one way. Is this done due to flag display rules? Only thing that came to my mind is that we are looking at the same flag from two directions.
Take care.
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On Jun 15, 2022, at 6:18 PM, habacomike via groups.io <habacomike@...> wrote: ? My father passed away last year on May 3rd at the age of 93. One of the events most affecting his life was his service in the Korean War. When my sister assembled his uniform jersey to display at his memorial service, we discovered he has a Bronze Star ribbon that he evidently earned in Korea. His experience there traumatized him and he suffered from nightmares for the early part of his marriage to my mother. But gradually the nearness of the trauma he experienced diminished, until he watched the constant news coverage of the January 6th insurrection, which triggered long-suppressed memories of his time in the Army.He was proud of his service, and it was my honor to take him on one of the Honor flights to Washington DC, where he and a number of veterans were able to visit the memorials specific to their conflicts and their branches of the service.And because of his service, he was entitled, and received military honors at his memorial service.So, I was unsure what to do with the flag from his military honors and the uniform jersey. I was also a bit conflicted as to what these items might have really meant to him -- unfortunately, he is no longer here so that I might ask him. I decided to make a couple of cabinets to house them, and designed them with the assistance of Wendy Maruyama and Matt Hutton. It's been a big effort as I have struggled to do justice to these items which certainly have a lot of meaning to me and possibly had to my father. So, here's the result.The cabinets are made of mahogany with crotch African mahogany veneered door panels. The quarter round mouldings have embedded American flag icons made from maple, bubinga, and ebony. The back panel is veneered with Santos rosewood.Dad, I hope that you would approve.?
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I ran, it’s an artifact of the mechanism of making the mouldings. ?I glued up the long stripes and the short stripes separately. I then glued up flag blanks approximately 55mm deep, then glued a moulding blank by surrounding the flag blank with blocks of mahogany and capped and bottomed that with a strip of mahogany. The result was a flat sandwich roughly 55 mm wide. ?I the ran both sides through the shaper with a 20mm bead on both faces of the blanks so one face resulted in the field on the right and the other face had the field on the left. ?I the ripped a quarter round from each side of the blank by tilting my bandsaw table to 45 degrees, freeing the first cut, reversing the cut, and finish with a quarter round.
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On Jun 15, 2022, at 4:49 PM, imranindiana <imranindiana@...> wrote:
? Hi Mike,
A great way to honor your Dad and we are grateful for his service. Good job on design and execution. The flags in opposing directions on the 2 cabinets caught my attention. Obviously, intentional as it would have been easier to make it one way. Is this done due to flag display rules? Only thing that came to my mind is that we are looking at the same flag from two directions.
Take care. Imran
On Jun 15, 2022, at 6:18 PM, habacomike via groups.io <habacomike@...> wrote:
? My father passed away last year on May 3rd at the age of 93. One of the events most affecting his life was his service in the Korean War. When my sister assembled his uniform jersey to display at his memorial service, we discovered he has a Bronze Star ribbon that he evidently earned in Korea. His experience there traumatized him and he suffered from nightmares for the early part of his marriage to my mother. But gradually the nearness of the trauma he experienced diminished, until he watched the constant news coverage of the January 6th insurrection, which triggered long-suppressed memories of his time in the Army.He was proud of his service, and it was my honor to take him on one of the Honor flights to Washington DC, where he and a number of veterans were able to visit the memorials specific to their conflicts and their branches of the service.And because of his service, he was entitled, and received military honors at his memorial service.So, I was unsure what to do with the flag from his military honors and the uniform jersey. I was also a bit conflicted as to what these items might have really meant to him -- unfortunately, he is no longer here so that I might ask him. I decided to make a couple of cabinets to house them, and designed them with the assistance of Wendy Maruyama and Matt Hutton. It's been a big effort as I have struggled to do justice to these items which certainly have a lot of meaning to me and possibly had to my father. So, here's the result.The cabinets are made of mahogany with crotch African mahogany veneered door panels. The quarter round mouldings have embedded American flag icons made from maple, bubinga, and ebony. The back panel is veneered with Santos rosewood.Dad, I hope that you would approve.?
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The cabinets are beautiful. He must have been a special person. I hope he felt thanked for his service. Thank you for sharing.
eduardo
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On Jun 15, 2022, at 6:31 PM, habacomike via groups.io <habacomike@...> wrote:
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Superb work, and a credit to his memory.
Allen
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Mike, Thanks for the explanation.
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On Jun 15, 2022, at 7:31 PM, habacomike via groups.io <habacomike@...> wrote: ? I ran, it’s an artifact of the mechanism of making the mouldings. ?I glued up the long stripes and the short stripes separately. I then glued up flag blanks approximately 55mm deep, then glued a moulding blank by surrounding the flag blank with blocks of mahogany and capped and bottomed that with a strip of mahogany. The result was a flat sandwich roughly 55 mm wide. ?I the ran both sides through the shaper with a 20mm bead on both faces of the blanks so one face resulted in the field on the right and the other face had the field on the left. ?I the ripped a quarter round from each side of the blank by tilting my bandsaw table to 45 degrees, freeing the first cut, reversing the cut, and finish with a quarter round.
Mike
On Jun 15, 2022, at 4:49 PM, imranindiana <imranindiana@...> wrote:
? Hi Mike,
A great way to honor your Dad and we are grateful for his service. Good job on design and execution. The flags in opposing directions on the 2 cabinets caught my attention. Obviously, intentional as it would have been easier to make it one way. Is this done due to flag display rules? Only thing that came to my mind is that we are looking at the same flag from two directions.
Take care. Imran
On Jun 15, 2022, at 6:18 PM, habacomike via groups.io <habacomike@...> wrote:
? My father passed away last year on May 3rd at the age of 93. One of the events most affecting his life was his service in the Korean War. When my sister assembled his uniform jersey to display at his memorial service, we discovered he has a Bronze Star ribbon that he evidently earned in Korea. His experience there traumatized him and he suffered from nightmares for the early part of his marriage to my mother. But gradually the nearness of the trauma he experienced diminished, until he watched the constant news coverage of the January 6th insurrection, which triggered long-suppressed memories of his time in the Army.He was proud of his service, and it was my honor to take him on one of the Honor flights to Washington DC, where he and a number of veterans were able to visit the memorials specific to their conflicts and their branches of the service.And because of his service, he was entitled, and received military honors at his memorial service.So, I was unsure what to do with the flag from his military honors and the uniform jersey. I was also a bit conflicted as to what these items might have really meant to him -- unfortunately, he is no longer here so that I might ask him. I decided to make a couple of cabinets to house them, and designed them with the assistance of Wendy Maruyama and Matt Hutton. It's been a big effort as I have struggled to do justice to these items which certainly have a lot of meaning to me and possibly had to my father. So, here's the result.The cabinets are made of mahogany with crotch African mahogany veneered door panels. The quarter round mouldings have embedded American flag icons made from maple, bubinga, and ebony. The back panel is veneered with Santos rosewood.Dad, I hope that you would approve.?
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Lovely work Mike, and thank you for sharing your father's story.
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Tom Gensmer
Heritage Home Renewals, LLC
Minneapolis, MN
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Outstanding work Mike! I believe your father would appreciate and approve.
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Mark Foster
imran
Allen Akin
Tom Gensmer