497 days ago
by Dorje |
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Be forewarned: What follows is not the most interesting content, but I’m just trying to document the steps of this process…
I had an ounce of time yesterday afternoon (less than an hour) so I cut up the stock to rough dimensions. I was nervous about this after finding out just how hard Jatoba really is. Very hard wood. Wasn’t sure me little Crapsman (cast iron top contractors saw w/ belt driven 1hp motor) was gonna do the trick, but boy am I proud of it! The pieces w...
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301 days ago
by GaryK |
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Last week while I was in California I stopped by at a place I used to get wood.I was just going to look until I found this canarywood. All of the canarywood I haveseen before has been straight grain kinda plain looking.
Here is 17bf I had shipped back home. $5.99 a BF.
The flash washes out the color, and without the flash it’s dark. So I included both.It’s kind of hard to get a true sense of what it looks like in a picture but I think youwill get the idea. Almost all the col...
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372 days ago
by Dorje |
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At the end of this short video you’ll see me look up at Mike. If you listen closely you can hear the saw hit some more metal…....
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At some point after the next few cuts we hit our 3rd and 4th nails within the same board:........
But, look what we have here!........
Here’s a shot of the “scene” at this point (there’s a few board feet of sawdust):........
We’ll finish up the sawing in the next installment…We uncovered a real gem just a bit ...
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375 days ago
by Dorje |
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On the same cold, crisp, gorgeous day in Sunny Seattle…the next thing we did was mount a 2×12x12 to the top of the 1st half of the maple log as a guide board to establish our first flat face from which we could continue to cut with just the chainsaw mill. The 2×12 had 2×2 runners screwed on to it to keep it flat and a wee bit more ridgid. One hooked over the edge, while the other was inset a few inches to “shim” the board to “level” it out (all ...
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441 days ago
by Karson |
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Hooker Furniture in Martinsville, VA is going out of business and over 480,000 BD Ft of lumber is up for auction.
Here is the web site
I receive e-mails every so ofter for furniture mfgs auctions. This one has more lumber than I’ve seen on ony of them.
There’s cherry, qtr sawn white oak, popular, maple, pine etc. Opening bids are around $1000 for 5,000 Bd ft.
Auction closed Sept 24-28 2007.
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388 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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Continued from a previous post Scoooore! Maple quarter log sections/bowl blanks.
Nice fall day. Scraped windows and removed old glazing. With the Honeydew list project out of the way, it’s on to fun! The original logs were big enough that I was able to get two natural edge face grain blanks and five end grain blanks, none with pith to contend with. And I got some nice wedges for future chainsawing, and likely some pen blanks, as well. I’ll keep a photoblog as these bowls unfol...
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69 days ago
by Keith Cruickshank |
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I just finished editing my most recent video—this one featuring Boston-based furniture maker John Fox. I was fortunate to be able to capture this unique, inside look at his wood selection process. (5 Minute Video)
Video Link Here:
John Reed Fox: How a Master Artisan Selects Wood
In this video, I was able to film master furniture maker John Fox collaborate with fine-hardwood dealers, Rick and Brian Hearne, as he searches from among Hearne Hardwood’s 1,000,000 board feet of to...
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404 days ago
by Dekker |
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I made yet another trip to my local lumberyard (30km, 19miles), and decided I needed some more variety in my wood selection at home. I really wanted to find some spalted maple (I have fallen in love with the look of the stuff), but they did not have any (only poor samples of spalted ash).
In the end, I picked up some Bloodwood and some beautiful bird’s eye maple. The bird’s eye is something I’ve been wanting to work with, having seen some really great examples in the LJ g...
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381 days ago
by Peter O |
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A discussion about free wood led to some conversation about barn lumber. We have an old barn that came with this place, and I thought I’d share some of our efforts to keep it standing. This is not a majestic old barn built by a well-to-do country gentleman. This was built by a poor depression-era farmer out of whatever he could cobble together. Despite our efforts to keep it standing, we often have people stop by to “offer” to tear it down for us if we let them have the ...
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272 days ago
by Damian Penney |
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Made another trip to PALS for the rest of the lumber, and seeing as my lumber rack isn’t wide enough most of it is on the floor or just propped up at the moment. Here’s all the 8/4 stock waiting to be butchered.
I ran all my stock through Cutlist Plus and here’s what it came up with, not too much waste which is nice (and I’ll use whatever is left over eventually anyway)
You can click the Cutlist Pic for a bigger view. Some parts are doubled up because I n...
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