I need some help with a birthday project

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The fourteenth my youngest grandchild will be two.

He already has every toy available.

Today I found what I believe will be the perfect present for a two year old.

Here's where I need the help.....

What do you think?
 

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The fourteenth my youngest grandchild will be two.

He already has every toy available.

Today I found what I believe will be the perfect present for a two year old.

Here's where I need the help.....

What do you think?
 
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Maybe a different point of view will help you help me.....
 

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Maybe a different point of view will help you help me.....
 
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One more shot, twelve inches in diameter and eight feet long...
 

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One more shot, twelve inches in diameter and eight feet long...
 
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It it helps the log is black walnut.

What I want to do is Sunday take it over to a friend's and have him slice it up into slabs two inches thick with his chainsaw mill.

According to the manager of the saw mill there's about forty board feet in that log.

Then I'll run the slabs through my thickness planer after I've cut them into boards on my table saw.

It's off to the mitre saw after that.

Here's the plan, wife thinks I've lost what little bit I ever had, I want to make blocks. Not a one square or rectangular or even round, all irregular shapes.

I'll sand the edges and rub the heck out of them to get a patina started.

I have a hand full of quarter inch stainless round rod about three feet long. I'm thinking quarter inch by two inch stainless pins, few of them straight, almost all bent at least to some degree.

And I want a bunch of quarter inch holes drilled into the blocks, few or less of the holes perpendicular to the surface, almost to most all at some kind of an angle.

Help me here, is it a good idea or the whimsy of a crazy man?

More importantly will there be a problem with the black walnut as far as a child chewing on it? I know the dust can be toxic to woodworkers.
 
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It it helps the log is black walnut.

What I want to do is Sunday take it over to a friend's and have him slice it up into slabs two inches thick with his chainsaw mill.

According to the manager of the saw mill there's about forty board feet in that log.

Then I'll run the slabs through my thickness planer after I've cut them into boards on my table saw.

It's off to the mitre saw after that.

Here's the plan, wife thinks I've lost what little bit I ever had, I want to make blocks. Not a one square or rectangular or even round, all irregular shapes.

I'll sand the edges and rub the heck out of them to get a patina started.

I have a hand full of quarter inch stainless round rod about three feet long. I'm thinking quarter inch by two inch stainless pins, few of them straight, almost all bent at least to some degree.

And I want a bunch of quarter inch holes drilled into the blocks, few or less of the holes perpendicular to the surface, almost to most all at some kind of an angle.

Help me here, is it a good idea or the whimsy of a crazy man?

More importantly will there be a problem with the black walnut as far as a child chewing on it? I know the dust can be toxic to woodworkers.
 
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Sounds like a fun project!
 
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Sounds like a fun project!
 

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