Anyone good with woodworking?

[Vintagebikelover24]

My father is a collector of old baseball cards and there's these three that he displays proudly on the dining room buffet. These three cards are from 1909 and are cigarette cards of a famous double-play trio, Tinkers, Evers, Chance of the Chicago Cubs. He has these displayed with a plastic stand that is used for decorative plates and whatnot. For Christmas I would like to get a stand made and a plaque that is placed on the stand with the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon". If anyone has a skill with creating cool things with wood please let me know. I will draw something up and post it here soon. I will pay with cash or bicycle parts. I'm not looking to spend more than $20-25 for the wooden base though. PM me if you're interested in working something out.

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

Here is my sketch

 

[Oak Tree]

This stand is really small, smaller than 1/2 of an 8X11 piece of paper. Is that too small for 3 cards?

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

The card are only about an inch wide themselves. All three are in a card holder that is about 6"-6.5" X 4"

 

[jlr551CFD]

Do you need it one solid piece of wood? What type of wood?

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

Whatever gets it done makes me happy lol. I just want it to be stained and lacquered and look nice.

 

[jlr551CFD]

When would you need it?

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

I would like it in my hands before Christmas.

 

[jlr551CFD]

I like projects... Let me mess around in the garage tomorrow, see what I can come up with. What color stain/wood grain are you thinking?

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

Id like it to match the piece of furniture that it will be presented on. I don't know the color off of the top of my head. I'll ask my dad

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

here's the buffet and here are the cards

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

i hope you can match the color off of that

 

[patman73]

red oak ?

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

I believe its a maple. The table has a card underneath that says maple and that's a matching set with the buffet.

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

I like projects... Let me mess around in the garage tomorrow, see what I can come up with. What color stain/wood grain are you thinking?

Hey jlr551CFD, did you come up with anything?

 

[jlr551CFD]

I did! I'm at work today... Let me take some pics tomorrow!

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

OOOO I'm excited

 

[jlr551CFD]

Front view

 

[jlr551CFD]

Side view

 

[jlr551CFD]