Lumber Making #9: The Second Half

Why aren’t you guys using a metal detector?

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

newbies…and don’t own one -

yet?

I was really surprised that the chain didn’t suffer too badly…nothing a chain sharpening of five passes or so couldn’t solve.

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Do you have a metal detector to use???

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

You guys are going to have some beautiful wood. With all of the work already put in and the work still to come – it won’t be free wood, but Wow should make some great projects.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Go git ‘em boys!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

gorgeous wood indeed… makes it all worth while, doesn’t it ..

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Dorje – This has been cool to watch. That’s a pretty sweet rig you guys have got there.

-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!

Hi Dorje,

The owner of Hearne Hardwoods is a friend of mine. He won’t consider cutting a tree from a neighborhood due to the potential of finding nails, and he does have a metal detector. People are always posting lost dog flyers on trees with 60 penny nails.

I guess the cost of one of his blades is somewhat higher than your’s.

I don’t know what the odds of finding spalted lumber like that is, but you sure hit the jackpot with this one!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

No kidding. That’s some beautiful wood. At least the resale value of the wood will allow ya to buy a new chain…and a metal detector too!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

That is some beautful wood. Those nails are why the sawyers won’t touch urban wood. You are doing a great job keep it up.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Thanks y’all – I knew going into this, that there would be great potential of hitting some nails…but, because this tree was off the road and behind houses, I figured it wouldn’t be covered in ‘em! I think we got really lucky, to run into only 4 nails in this thing. And, don’t you worry…when it comes time to cut this on the bandsaw/tablesaw, a metal detector will be at the ready…Who knows what we missed!

I’ll try to post the last installment tonight or tomorrow!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Dorje,

I got some Black Walnut from behind a house that had been cut down and had the lagrer pieces slabed and then slabed some of the smaller pieces myself. I ran across a pulley that was inbedded in one piece. It was about 1/3rd or the way in the log. I now have a metal detector….

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Oh my word – must have forgotten the laundry!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Beautiful wood. I remember hearing a story of a guy had a tree like you have and he cut the wood into 12 X 12” blocks about 3 ” thick. He stacked it all in his pickup and went to the parking lot at Woodcraft. He sold every bit of it to people walking in and out of woodcraft.

I assume he was not a woodworker but a wood sawyer.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Karson – the story sounds very plausible! Just wait til you see the other patterns in here! I’ll have to post the next installment! I think I can work on that NOW!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA