 Welcome back to the channel everybody. Hey, we have got an outdoor project today, y'all. You remember old, old little buck that I shot earlier this year and I've been working on a few followed blogs. I've kind of gone through the process of bleaching the skull, cleaning it out. And now it is time to finally make the pedestal for this deer. And I've got some of my leftover tiger wood and we're gonna be sprucing it up and putting it on the wall today. Today's video is sponsored by Guns of Glory. What is this Guns of Glory, you may ask? Well, it is a strategic warfare game. You can download for free on iOS and Android. It takes you back in time to the land of musketeers. Yeah, you know, one for all, all for one. It is a multiplayer RTS game so you can battle your other musketeer buddies across the globe. And if you want to destroy them with your armies or your warships or any of that sort of thing, you can do that. 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And we're going to be putting this right here on this pedestal. I have never formed anything this artful in the woodcraft world yet. I got to work on some wood crates the other day with my router. A router is a tool that basically allows you to go into the wood and make different designs or make very specific cuts. So I've got a whole set of bits here. I wanna pick out one of these bits that's gonna make a cool design on the outside. Hopefully I don't screw it up too bad because this Brazilian tiger wood isn't exactly at home depot. Essentially the idea here, get it, idea. I'm gonna take this mount right here. This is on a Mesquite wood, this is one of my first bucks. And then this piece right here, which is an outline of the deer's skull. Make those measurements. By the way, I'm on baby watch duty again. While Steph is at the dentist. I'm not too comfortable about leaving you around high-powered drills, tools, and saws. So I think you're safe in here with just like the drawing up status. And we're probably gonna have to wait for mommy to get home until we start turning on the power tools because I care about your pretty little face. This is my attempt at trying to draw a symmetrical outline around this deer's skull. It's not perfectly symmetrical, but you know what, neither are all of us. We're not all perfect. My brain's a little lopsided. Now it's time to actually cut it out. I'm gonna be using a high-powered jigsaw. I'm not so sure about cutting the tiger wood with a jigsaw because it's super hard wood. We're gonna give it a shot. Turn this down to a little slower speed for cutting through hardwoods. One of these days I'm actually gonna have a workbench to do videos on, but for now, I'm using a garden holder thing that Steph has yet to utilize. That's it so far, not a bad little cut. It's kind of bogging down in the super hard part of the wood. So I might have to speed it up a little bit, try not to burn out the motor. I am somewhat impressed by the jigsaw. Looks pretty good. We're gonna have to shape up the nose, the little nose area, little bit of a booboo. That wood is awesome, beautiful. Now here comes the challenging and fun part. I'm going to take the router and I'm going to do some shaping. This is the handle for the router. The router goes in here. It's got a bit that goes in and it spins at a very high speed and it's gonna take shavings off. You can use it to plunge into the wood like a drill or you can go around the sides and make the decorations and all that fun stuff. What I'm gonna do at first is just literally try to shape it exactly the way I want it. I've done some more pencil markings to try to make the shape a little bit more symmetrical and then we'll take the decorative bits and go around the edge and make it pretty. That looks all right, a couple little boobo's, but guys, there's two tools that I have that freak me out a little bit. It's this router freehanding the router, like not using a routing table. Just handheld on that guy. That thing's just hanging there, you know. Right at about pouch level, you know what I'm saying? That's a little freaky and then the jigsaw. The jigsaw freaks me out too. Like, see you got my foot caught in the extended cord almost. It's crazy, Tasmanian devil's attached to the other end. There's no guard at the front. So you get your little digits out in front there, it's taking them off, like off with the bug spray. But that's not gonna stop me from making the Tiger Wood European Deer Mount, no sir. Little learning lesson here. Changed out bits to this flush trim bit. See that little ball bearing right there? That allows you to evenly go around the edges where I was like actually freehanding and you can see how difficult that is. I mean, wow, what a lesson there. I'm glad we can learn these things together, you know. Most people would probably research a lot of this before. Flush trim bit, really good at getting that flush. Look at that. Whereas the jigsaw just kind of made a, you know, catty-wonk-us cut where the blade was bending or whatever. Now it is time to make our decorative cut. What I'm gonna use is called a roundover bit. I've got a few of these of different sizes. I'm gonna go with the biggest one I've got in the box because I've got a big piece of wood right here. Since it's so big, I may not bring it off the wall. I may just use this piece because it sticks out kind of far already. The antler shouldn't hit the wall. So I'm gonna take this bit and this has a ball bearing on it as well. A ball bearing with a little collar and I'm gonna go all the way around this thing and see what it looks like. Decorative piece, a little nervous. I gotta raise my bit up just a hair. Check it out. Getting fancy, little boo-boo there. But other than that, that's pretty smooth, I would say. I'm pretty happy with that. That's neat. Gotta make sure that sucker's clamped good. There she is. Wow, some sawdust. Honestly, I'm pretty happy with this right here, guys. Oh my gosh, I can't even believe I did this. I did this. What the heck, I'm a rider. Wow, can't wait to go inside and show Stephanie. I've got a few boo-boos. Boil the linseed oil on there, make it all shiny and pop, just bam! I'm already proud of myself. Gosh, Dave, always be creating. Build something with your hands. Do it right, take your time. You feel good, you feel good about yourself. Gotta get OSG's thoughts. Yeah, look at my thing. You gave me this rider for Christmas. I see something is cut out over here, kind of looks like a skeleton. Yeah, you can put your face in there. That is awesome. Isn't that cool? That looks pretty professional. I don't know, I'm proud of myself. I'm quite impressed. Steph got me this thing for Christmas. And to be honest, I didn't really know what it was. That's what, it can do that, it can do that. So you can build cabinetry and stuff with it and make, that's how cabinet carpenters and stuff, that's how they do all the etching on the outside of the wood. That is really cool. Look how thick it is, that's what your tiger would? It is. So it's pretty masculine, I'm putting a pretty small deer on there, unfortunately. Impressive, babe. Switch it out one day. Looks kind of like a little alien skull. Wee! Yeah, you can cut her out, it does look like an alien skull. I gotta get back to work, the sun's going down. All right, Emmy's getting cold. All right. Meet you back for dinner. Yep, thank you, honey. Working up a hunger out here with my wood projects. I've got enough room on top to do another decorative bit. However, I don't know what I'm doing and I don't want to screw it up. So what I do feel safe about doing is taking a trimming bit and going down the other side and that'll help reduce the, such the block look that it has. Oh yeah, shazam. Now we're cooking with Crisco, ladies and gentlemen. Decorative little contour up front and then just a round little shaper in the back. Look at that, look at me go. It's time to just take an orbital sander to this guy, just shape it up, clean it up, get it nice and fine. We're gonna put a little bald linseed oil on it. Woodworking, power tools, white tail deer. Gotta love it, hit the like button. Awards anytime soon, but for my first, Euro mount, wood piece, I mean, come on. That deserves a like right there, not bad. We're gonna take some bold linseed oil right here, check that out, soak it in. Watch closely now, it's a little dull. Put some of this on here, wipe this in. Oh, look at it pop, look at it pop now. Look at the difference. That makes that tiger wood really stand out, that's beautiful. That is beautiful stuff, this is why I did not want it to go to waste, didn't want to just throw it away. Scrap wood on the side, look how beautiful that is. Come on now. Absolutely delightful y'all, tiger wood is so awesome. You put that bold linseed oil on there, it's fantastic. It's almost like lotion. You know what this would honestly look awesome as? A gun stock, tiger wood would be an awesome gun stock. Sorry, what am I thinking? Mentioning guns again, I'm sorry. So I'm gonna start by drilling some pilot holes into the skull. Made out of ourselves a little divot there. That was dumb. Well screws are long enough, two and a half inches. I'm gonna just drill a little extra pilot up at the front. This is a five sixteenths out, five sixteenths out. Fishing brain, what can I say? I'm going to drill in about halfway into this wood, give myself a little extra length. Everything I do with wood, one common thing is always the same. There's workarounds. Woo, that is really gonna spit out some wood. So I got a big vacuums. There's our little safety flag. Just about an inch right there on that one. All right, well now that we've got some bigger holes I definitely had to get the vacuum out because OSG was gonna be pissed. Get everybody, look at that. Brazilian tiger wood. That is pretty. The idea here is I've got, well three or four different areas to hang some deer mounts. There's gotta be a little nail up here. I don't think it's totally in line, but we're gonna get the idea. Goodness, all those party. Look at that trio up there. The only thing is that one is metal. I've got another project for that to make it wood as well and then we're having a true wood trio. The seat, tiger wood, maybe oak. I don't know. Thanks for hanging with me on today's video y'all. I'm gonna see you again real soon. So go ahead and subscribe right here, hit the notification so you don't miss a single video. Go ahead and tell me what you think about this thing. What would have made it better? Let's hear it down below and I'll see you on the next one.