It's a sad wood gloat but it's wood none the less.
I was out with my neighbour looking at cherry trees in his bush. He is taking out a lot of cedars for fence posts and is going to put in a trail through that part of the bush. There were a few big cherry trees in there and wanted to know if I wanted to buy them. It was a no brainer for me as I've wanted to get my hands on some cherry for a while. One of the cherry trees even had a nice burl on the side of it. Anyways long story short he cut them down and brought them to my house this afternoon and they are FULL of CRACKS all the way through the tree. I don't see any salad bowls or any bowls for that matter in this whole tree with all the cracks. The cracks are so bad that when I cut the ends off of the logs to clean up the cut and anchorseal them the off cuts just break into three pieces. This was a living tree when he brought it down today so I don't know how it cracked so bad. He even said that the tree had a fairly soft landing as it rolled off of other trees on the way down.
Any ideas what else besides bowls I can make with this? It's lots of pen blanks if I wanted to cut them up and sell them. I guess pepper mills and such but All I want to make is bowls....my addiction is bowls :-)
Pictures attached. As you can see the one cherry log is massive. My chainsaw sits in front of it and it has a 20" bar on it.
Now I have 300.00 worth of logs in my yard and I can't even make a bowl out of them. :-(
See what I mean it's a sad wood gloat.