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Joey

259 posts in 713 days


604 days ago

While i was planing some cherry that i got from a local wood mill last year, I found a little surprise. I think it’s a .22 bullet, might be a .38. But i’m lucky it was a lead round and not copper or steel jacketed. My planer left it pretty smooth, and didn’t damage my knives. I know the guy who owns the mill and he does run a metal detector over the wood before cutting it. I now know what my next purchase will be.
It was about 4” to 5 ” into the wood, so i’m figuring it was shot into the tree 30+ years ago.

bullet in cherry

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

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sIKE

1094 posts in 651 days


604 days ago

Sheeze!

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

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Scott Bryan

20746 posts in 719 days


603 days ago

Wow. That is one nasty surprise.

thanks for the post.

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

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Ryan Shervill

238 posts in 710 days


603 days ago

Acually, the lead is softer than the cherry, and even copper jacket is awful close to hardwood. You won’t hurt your knives hitting most bullets (but watch out for nails!)

Thats actuallly a cool find, maybe you should work it into a box top or something!

-- If you can't set a good example, at least serve as a horrible warning... www.rarewoodcreations.com

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rikkor

11335 posts in 772 days


603 days ago

Does a metal detector pick up non-ferrous metal?

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Mario

882 posts in 949 days


603 days ago

That is cool, I did not realize that the slug was softer than the wood, Thanks Ryan. I also would love to have a metal detector.

Thanks for the post.

-- Hope Never fails

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DannyBoy

448 posts in 763 days


603 days ago

I would definitely make this “defect” a feature in a piece. Just imagine the story you could tell about it!

-- He said wood...http://hickbyassociation.blogspot.com/

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ChasHutch

56 posts in 613 days


603 days ago

Could be a great story…

“While I was building a cherry toy box for an orphanage, a crazed, masked gunman burst into my shop waving a .38 around. It was my good fortune to be planing a length of cherry wood at that exact moment. As the gunman aimed the pistol at me, demanding that I teach him how to make hand-cut dovetails, I was able to jerk the peice (safely, of course) off of the planer, swing it around baseball bat style, just as he pulled the trigger. The wood not only stopped the bullet from hitting my chest but, the recoil of the shot hitting the board pinwheeled me around and the board smacked the crazy masked man upside his head. This rendered him unconscience long enough for me to bind his hands and feet with an extension cord.” Or something like that.

-- Hutch - North Dallas, Tx - Safety First

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GaryK

9537 posts in 886 days


603 days ago

Very interesting. This is first I’ve heard of something like that.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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smoknn

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603 days ago

i can relate. i was cutting down an old hackberry tree that had grown to close to a fence. when i started cutting with my chainsaw,, i kept hitting something toward the heart of the tree just ruining my blades. so we got out a smaller 9 inch chain saw and started whittling at the trunk…..a damn metal fence post!! apparently whoever planted years ago had used it to keep the trunk straight as it grew. being left behind the tree just grew around the post!!

-- smoknn

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Chris

1469 posts in 889 days


603 days ago

I think Rikkor had the most pertinent question:

“Does a metal detector pick up non-ferrous metal?”

-- Chris

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Thos. Angle

4013 posts in 860 days


603 days ago

Will a metal detector pick up lead?

-- Thos. Angle

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Ad Marketing Guy - Bill

314 posts in 696 days


602 days ago

Makes finding a pit in your cherry take on a new meaning!!

-- Bill - - Ad-Marketing Guy, Ramsey NJ

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coronet1967

24 posts in 848 days


602 days ago

about 5 years ago i was having a poplar tree milled and in the 3rd 12 foot log there 1.5 inches of a #20 nail it was about 4 cuts in so it had been there for a while.

my sawer at the time said that he had found railroad spikes, horseshoes, and in the crotch of a walnut tree he found a model A carburator.

never know what will be in a tree they have been around a long time and have lots of history to tell

jay angel

-- "not all those who wander are lost" JRR tolken

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Joey

259 posts in 713 days


602 days ago

yes, most will pick up no ferrous. anything from iron, steel to lead silver and gold. Most hand held metal detectors work on the same principle that the long ones that people use to find jewelry, coins, and lead rounds on battlefields. ferrous just means that the metal contains iron and is magnetic.
The guy i got the cherry from uses a large metal detector like you see people using on a beach or battlefield. i watched him use it the day he milled the log for me, but i’m guessing it was just too deep in the tree to register something that small.

-- Joey, Magee, Ms http://woodnwaresms.com

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Brad_Nailor

1224 posts in 855 days


602 days ago

Thats pretty cool…I would definatley work that into the piece!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

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Quixote

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467 days ago

I remembered reading this post back in my lurking days and I thought it was pretty novel.

Until this weekend when I was planing some barn oak.

My metal detector did find the round, and I started to dig it out but then I remembered how the lead was softer… so i let it run.

It’s near the end of an eight foot piece, planed to 3/4” by 7”

Now to decide what to do with this piece…

Q

-- I don't make sawdust...I produce vast quantities of "Micro Mulch."

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SteveKorz

2030 posts in 611 days


467 days ago

This would be a fun project to watch… when you post it, make sure to liink this topic…

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

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