My folks cut down a birch in their front yard a couple weeks ago and saved me a 5-foot length of the trunk. Craigslist helped me find "Tom the Sawyer", about 20 minutes from the office. Made an appointment and stopped by this morning. Thirty minutes later I had three 12/4 slabs approximately 11 inches wide and 5 feet long…...pretty cool! Now I just have to let it dry, and I think I will try my hand at flattening via hand planes. Not sure what to do with the lumber just yet, but was thinking a natural edge bench seat with through-mortise/tenon joinery.
Later,
joe
My folks cut down a birch in their front yard a couple weeks ago and saved me a 5-foot length of the trunk. Craigslist helped me find "Tom the Sawyer", about 20 minutes from the office. Made an appointment and stopped by this morning. Thirty minutes later I had three 12/4 slabs approximately 11 inches wide and 5 feet long…...pretty cool! Now I just have to let it dry, and I think I will try my hand at flattening via hand planes. Not sure what to do with the lumber just yet, but was thinking a natural edge bench seat with through-mortise/tenon joinery.
Later,
joe
My folks cut down a birch in their front yard a couple weeks ago and saved me a 5-foot length of the trunk. Craigslist helped me find "Tom the Sawyer", about 20 minutes from the office. Made an appointment and stopped by this morning. Thirty minutes later I had three 12/4 slabs approximately 11 inches wide and 5 feet long…...pretty cool! Now I just have to let it dry, and I think I will try my hand at flattening via hand planes. Not sure what to do with the lumber just yet, but was thinking a natural edge bench seat with through-mortise/tenon joinery.
Later,
joe
I actually think the sawyer did a pretty good job leaving me with the majority of the log…...you can't see it from the picture, but there was a large dished out area that went nearly the entire length of this section. He skimmed it off slowly until we had two perpendicular edges to work with.
Now for the next question…...how long to dry? Currently, the slabs are stickered and resting in my garage.
My folks cut down a birch in their front yard a couple weeks ago and saved me a 5-foot length of the trunk. Craigslist helped me find "Tom the Sawyer", about 20 minutes from the office. Made an appointment and stopped by this morning. Thirty minutes later I had three 12/4 slabs approximately 11 inches wide and 5 feet long…...pretty cool! Now I just have to let it dry, and I think I will try my hand at flattening via hand planes. Not sure what to do with the lumber just yet, but was thinking a natural edge bench seat with through-mortise/tenon joinery.
Later,
joe
My folks cut down a birch in their front yard a couple weeks ago and saved me a 5-foot length of the trunk. Craigslist helped me find "Tom the Sawyer", about 20 minutes from the office. Made an appointment and stopped by this morning. Thirty minutes later I had three 12/4 slabs approximately 11 inches wide and 5 feet long…...pretty cool! Now I just have to let it dry, and I think I will try my hand at flattening via hand planes. Not sure what to do with the lumber just yet, but was thinking a natural edge bench seat with through-mortise/tenon joinery.
Later,
joe
My folks cut down a birch in their front yard a couple weeks ago and saved me a 5-foot length of the trunk. Craigslist helped me find "Tom the Sawyer", about 20 minutes from the office. Made an appointment and stopped by this morning. Thirty minutes later I had three 12/4 slabs approximately 11 inches wide and 5 feet long…...pretty cool! Now I just have to let it dry, and I think I will try my hand at flattening via hand planes. Not sure what to do with the lumber just yet, but was thinking a natural edge bench seat with through-mortise/tenon joinery.
Later,
joe
My folks cut down a birch in their front yard a couple weeks ago and saved me a 5-foot length of the trunk. Craigslist helped me find "Tom the Sawyer", about 20 minutes from the office. Made an appointment and stopped by this morning. Thirty minutes later I had three 12/4 slabs approximately 11 inches wide and 5 feet long…...pretty cool! Now I just have to let it dry, and I think I will try my hand at flattening via hand planes. Not sure what to do with the lumber just yet, but was thinking a natural edge bench seat with through-mortise/tenon joinery.
Later,
joe
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