Todd Burch
06-27-2016, 11:47 AM
About 36" on the small end and 42" on the big end inside the bark. 9.5' long. Most slabs were around 11/4 thick. HEAVY!!! The log had a bit of a taper to it (as most do), and I did not take the time to raise the small end. That caused the pith to be about 6" different in elevation when I was cutting it. So, instead of cutting slabs that would have pith running through them, I cut the center slab to fully contain the pith. Sometime in the future, I will saw it to get quarter sawn boards from either side of the pith.
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Here's the stack with all wood from the two logs. Big stack. (Looks like I need to straighten it up a bit…!!, which I will do when I cut up the 6" thick slab)
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I also cut a nice pecan log, about the same length. Cut 16+ (kept 16) boards of 5/4 material from it, all 6" or 7" wide. (Some got sold, so I'm not certain of the exact count.) Got some nice looking boards. The pecan is the 3 layers of pink wood above the 2 middle slabs. Also got a 9/4 slab, 19" at the narrow.
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In the first picture of the red oak, I'm cutting the top crown off the log. I reclaimed 9 4/4 boards from that crown, and I got 16 5/4 boards from the bottom crown. Top 3 layers in the stack.
Someone please comment, but I think cutting at a slight taper causes more cathedral grain to be present, which in flat sawn wood, I don't mind at all.
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Here's the stack with all wood from the two logs. Big stack. (Looks like I need to straighten it up a bit…!!, which I will do when I cut up the 6" thick slab)
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I also cut a nice pecan log, about the same length. Cut 16+ (kept 16) boards of 5/4 material from it, all 6" or 7" wide. (Some got sold, so I'm not certain of the exact count.) Got some nice looking boards. The pecan is the 3 layers of pink wood above the 2 middle slabs. Also got a 9/4 slab, 19" at the narrow.
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In the first picture of the red oak, I'm cutting the top crown off the log. I reclaimed 9 4/4 boards from that crown, and I got 16 5/4 boards from the bottom crown. Top 3 layers in the stack.
Someone please comment, but I think cutting at a slight taper causes more cathedral grain to be present, which in flat sawn wood, I don't mind at all.