1134 days ago
by woodchips |
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Hello fellow LJ’s,
i just wanted to share this amazing find with ya’ll since we all (more or less) share the same love of wood. A rancher pushed over this enormous bois d’arc tree to make way for a fence (of all things) anyway he gave a buddy and me free range to cut as much of it as we wanted to. I was overjoyed and so far this is all I’ve gotten to the sawmill but there is much more to come. one of the huge benefits to living in deep east Texas is there are saw...
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1215 days ago
by degoose |
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Here is a few short videos of the Torque Workcentre making light work of dressing a slab of Eucalyptus..
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This slab was fairly hard and around 16 inches by 30 inches..even though this is a small slab by any standard the principle is the same and as you can see it only takes minutes.. so if the slab were bigger it would still not take any great amount of time to flatten and smooth it…
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1346 days ago
by Gary |
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A coffee table, we need a coffee table. Hmmm?
This project, which is nearing completion, is a coffee table.No big thing typically. A set of legs, a few rips on the table saw, a little glue,some mortise and tenons and Bob’s your uncle.
Not quite this time. I didn’t want to make “another table.”
More than that, I wanted to build something where the timbers I wanted to use dictated the design.Well, partially—there was a height constraint which needed to be ...
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1375 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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While looking through old Flickr sets, I realized I never made public one in which I slabbed one of the huge Eucalyptus logs I wrestled home from a craigslist ad. The largest of them is over 230lbs. I chose the smallest – probably around 80-100lbs, because I was desperate to see what lurked inside. I have at least a dozen of these things, so I could sacrifice one enormous beast to curiosity, though that said, I did immediately seal up the ends with a few inches worth of Anchorseal, and ...
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1432 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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As a home hobbyist in a big city, not working as much in BF as in “oh look, a log!” I decided to keep things simple on myself and go with KD DF for stickering my slabs. I have a bunch of really old, really dry stuff, and in fact tried to build some finger-jointed frames for another project I’d like to post about someday, but dropping one only a foot to the ground caused all 4 corners to shatter. It’s that dry. I figure that means it’ll be fairly inert, though who...
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1436 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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I promise not to start posting every log I resaw (lest my blog becoming nothing but!), but I think folks interested in resawing, or copying the jig I just made might like to see some more samples.
First, I forgot I got some shots of this (before giving it away as a gift to a coworker girl who wants to paint on it like a canvas), but here’s some of that first log of Ficus microcarpa, resawn to veneer-like thinness:
It’s about 1/16”-3/32” thick on one end, ...
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1736 days ago
by frank |
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Rockin’ Maple
....i believe in you,
hypertrophy in wood art,
nascence comes with laughter….
—by flp
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1785 days ago
by frank |
7 comments »
Druthers of Wood
....esoteric, rar-i-fied forms for wood art,realms of vision….—by flp
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1792 days ago
by frank |
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The Beauty of a Soul in Wood
….into the fire of your eye, ran the character of the wood, and who was there to welcome my goings, but the burnished steel of i….
—-my going was but a sweetness of golden syrup, and from the tap ran gallons of sap, so what was i a doing collecting, when the springs of spring sprung ambrosia….
....that was then till in my now of days, i milled your sapwood looking for slabs, and in the soul of your heartwood you still held more...
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2004 days ago
by frank |
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Stone and Wood
....study deep and go within, for in these inwards of stone and wood, beats the heart of my love’s in-flame, where naught but wight’s such as i can go for peace-full respite….
—-sing forth the study of my soul, i go a caroling within the depths of these here woods, while none there is that crosses my path as fair weathered fiend, but the arrow that flees to it’s point of yonder destiny….
—-why sitting here just now in mornings ...
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