Black Acacia...First time milling for me. #2: Saturday....The first day of milling

good posting. nice photos

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Hey, that wood looks heavy…:-)

-- ....next big purchase is wood for the next project, Mark

try not to cut it too short

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those first long cuts are absolutely beautiful…. Gonna make some outrageous funiture

And don’t forget to paint the ends so it doesnt dry too fast.

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Wow, it really has some fabulous figure to it.

-- Maplewood, MN

The wood is gorgeous. I am sure that it is going to make some beautiful furniture.

Thanks for the post Steffen.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Ahhh – the chainsaw milling experience! You diggin it? Hard work!

From the photos in the last entry, I’d say you have a bit more work ahead of you!

How thick did you cut those slabs? 4” or so? What’s your plan for the wood? What will you build down the line? It’s not all turning stock, is it???

Are you going to cut other thicknesses?

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

Dorje,

Yeah…lots of work ahead. This first slab was 5” however we are going to cut them 16/4 in the batch. I am cutting them thicker to save time for the guy cutting them. Not sure what I’m going to build but tables of all sorts come to mind. I’ve thought about an entry or sofa table with cherry or walnut legs and frame with a top and drawer fronts made out of this material.

As for other thicknesses I’ll take that up later but not with the chain saw mill. You loose a lot of wood with that thing.

-- Steffen

New user here – I’ve just finished milling a 13’ section of black acacia into 3/4” boards for flooring a ways south of Oakland. Wonderful stuff, but hard on tools. It’s 2 years down and has been at 1” for 18 months of that, so it’s pretty dry. If you cut it on the quarter, you’ll get ray-flake very much like cherry – it’s absolutely iridescent, and a light oil finish brings out all the depth.

I poached some of it to build a small bedfoot chest, along with some scrap walnut from a guy who was milling on Sunol Grade in South Fremont CA.

It also turns beautifully and polishes to a high luster. Be careful, though, when cutting it on a tablesaw – it has a lot of stress in the wood and tends to want to close up the cut. Make certain to have a splitter on the saw, or else you’ll burn wood and blade quite a bit.

MattH

And evidently img src doesn’t work for posting photos.. Hmmm.

Use the insert image button and paste in the link to the photo there.

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Here’s a link to the blanket chest w/ black acacia frame & scrap walnut panels.