How should I cut this??

[Andy Bryant]

A friend got a hold of this chunk of walnut with the idea that we could get some useful pieces out of it. It looks to be half of a round cut off. Any suggestions on what it could be used for and how best to cut/resaw it? It is about 2' on the long axis. The pictures are the four sides rotated clockwise. If I cut it lengthwise I'm going to end up with planks of endgrain.

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[Jim Becker]

None of your links are resolving, so it's hard to provide an opinion.

[Andy Bryant]

Should be fixed now.

Thanks.

[Lee Schierer]

To get any usable wood, unless you want some turning blanks, you need to cut parallel to the grain which is going to give you really short pieces. You need a really large band saw to do that with that piece of wood.

[Andy Bryant]

That's what I was afraid of. I turn pens but not bowls. I know i could get a 100 pen blanks out of it. Maybe some interesting castings from that middle section. Maybe this is an excuse to try turning a bowl.