In response to Karson’s wood find on cedar lumber, this is an example of some cedar lumber I found about 6 years ago. A gentleman advertised that he had some cedar lumber for sale. I called him and got directions to his place. When I got there the lumber looked like this picture.
The gentleman told me that he had cut the cedar 30 years ago and it had been stored in his attic. He decided to get it down and sell it. He took it out of his attic and put it on the back porch. But before he got around to putting it in the paper for sale, his cats and dogs got to doing there #1 duty on it and boy did it smell. The wood was so black you couldn’t tell it was actually cedar until you scratched it with a knife and got some of the darkness off.
I finally agreed to buy it for $45.00 and loaded it up on my pickup. It almost filled the back of my truck when we got it loaded. We headed back to the shop and unloaded it and I just had to see what it was like so I headed to the planer.
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After planing it and seeing what it looked like I made 2 cedar chests for my Step-daughter and my step-sons wife and here is what they looked like.
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So do not judge the look of the lumber before you see what is under the weathered look.
-- A man can never have enough tools
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motthunter
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posted 89 days ago
nice wood… looks great
-- making sawdust....
SteveKorz
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posted 89 days ago
Great project… I luv a good lumber find…
-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 88 days ago
Hi Cabinetmaster;
Looks like a great buy!
Nice job on the chests.
What did you do to your finger? Hard to work with it like that.
I have noticed that whenever I hurt a finger or anything else for that matter, I will bang that body part into everything.
Hope it heals fast.
Lee
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cabinetmaster
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posted 88 days ago
I have a tendency to get a little close to a saw blade once in a while. That was 6 years ago that picture was taken. So far I have kept away from the blades.
-- A man can never have enough tools
ScaryDAve
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posted 88 days ago
Yeah ceder is a great wood. It will gray a lot over time but all ya gotta do is cut, plane or sand down into it a little and it comes right back. I live in a ceder forest and there are big old but cut logs just layin around the forest because they have rot spots in the center that the ceder mills won’t buy from the cutters. They can look like complete hell on the outside but once you cut them open they are just as beautiful as anything freshly cut.
I have a 50 inch circular saw mill I am building and once it’s up an runin I am sure I’ll have plenty of pictures to share. They will all be eastern, red, aromatic, ceder.
-- If at first you don't succeed, slam it on the ground, kick it across the shop, blast it with a shotgun, tell the kids to cut it up for firewood, turn up the music an try try again.
Karson
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posted 88 days ago
Beautiful looking chests. Cedar is a miracle wood. Fron the outside to the pink, red and yellow streaks.
I made puzzles from cedar for people for about 3-4 years and I never finished them. Everyone likes to pick them up and smell them.
-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
cabinetmaster
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posted 87 days ago
Thanks Dave, I want to know how I can get some of that Cedar for some cedar bowls.
-- A man can never have enough tools