11 days ago
by Scott Bryan |
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Over the weekend I went to an auction that had 600 bf of cherry, 400 bf of walnut and 400 bf of oak for sale. I wasn’t sure how I was going to get it all back into the shop or where I would even put it if I won the wood but I thought it would be great to work on getting a wood stash that would start to rival that of Karson and Larry.
When the wood was auctioned needless to say I did not win any of it. The guy that bought most of it never put his card down and so the wood went for m...
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107 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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I can’t believe it’s been just over 3 weeks already since I picked this stuff up. This year is cruising past me. I saw an ad one morning – only a few minutes old – for a very large pile of scrap wood, mostly superior-grade alder, but with a mix of some other things in there, like plywood, and walnut. I wrestled internally for a bit. Do I really need more wood? The answer, it turned out, was yes. I wrote, mentioned I was a budding woodworker, and would love to find uses...
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128 days ago
by degoose |
17 comments »
Karson my good friend.You asked me if here in the land downunder we had any branches.Let me tell a little story.. Once upon a time a few years ago a fellow I know came upon an accident.. a semi trailer [18 wheeler in your parlance] had run off the road and hit a tree.. the tree was a Moreton Bay Fig….[ficus macrophylla]The truck was a write-off but the only damage sustained by the tree was that one of the branches had broken off.My friend,,,being a resourceful bloke…turned up wi...
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219 days ago
by Karson |
24 comments »
Last Thursday I visited one of my local sawmills and I posted my Wood Gloat of the Day.
There is a preface to that story: On Feb 12, of 2007 I visited that same sawmill and these three logs were laying in the yard.
I found the mill owner and told him that that I wanted him to saw those logs for me. He said that he was going to keep them.
I told him to don’t trim the edges of the boards. leave them on the board so that you could have natural edges if you wanted them.
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220 days ago
by Karson |
33 comments »
Last thursday I stopped by the local Sawmill. I wasn’t looking for anything, just a social visit. I think that he’s running into finincial problems. The reason I say that is the lack of logs in the lot and the lack of piles of sawn wood in the yard.
He is not usually at the mill in the recent times I’ve visited. But, he was there this day. He shut down the mill and came over to talk. We chatted for a few minutes and then he asked if I wanted to buy that pile of maple over...
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