Danny Thompson
05-28-2009, 10:13 PM
I just spent the last hour and a half cutting and laying out stickers . . .
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=119437&d=1243563211
FOR THE 250 BOARD FEET OF 5/4 WALNUT I JUST RECEIVED AS A GIFT!!!!
GOTCHA!
Credit goes to my now favorite FIL who, along with his his brother, felled a couple of walnut trees growing on his farm in rural Alabama. They took the logs to a sawmill in SC TN who cut it to size and kiln dried it. The brother (uncle-in-law?) took his pick of about a dozen boards for a corner hutch project, my brother in law picked a half dozen more to put away for a rainy day, and the rest was given to me.
He says that now I'm set for Christmas, birthday, or whatever presents for the next 75 years.
Whatever the reason, I'm pretty happy about it.
Most boards are 6-9" wide. Okay, so not all of it is the cleanest in the world--lots of live edges, plenty of knots, and four or five 11' branch boards that dried in what approximates the arc of a rocking chair runner. Even so, I'm set for Walnut for some time to come.
Has anyone built a real woodworking bench out of 5/4?
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=119437&d=1243563211
FOR THE 250 BOARD FEET OF 5/4 WALNUT I JUST RECEIVED AS A GIFT!!!!
GOTCHA!
Credit goes to my now favorite FIL who, along with his his brother, felled a couple of walnut trees growing on his farm in rural Alabama. They took the logs to a sawmill in SC TN who cut it to size and kiln dried it. The brother (uncle-in-law?) took his pick of about a dozen boards for a corner hutch project, my brother in law picked a half dozen more to put away for a rainy day, and the rest was given to me.
He says that now I'm set for Christmas, birthday, or whatever presents for the next 75 years.
Whatever the reason, I'm pretty happy about it.
Most boards are 6-9" wide. Okay, so not all of it is the cleanest in the world--lots of live edges, plenty of knots, and four or five 11' branch boards that dried in what approximates the arc of a rocking chair runner. Even so, I'm set for Walnut for some time to come.
Has anyone built a real woodworking bench out of 5/4?