I have been working on building a found wood resawing jig akin to the one on Wood magazine's web video for turning Hurricane Ike deadfall into usable lumber. I decided to grab a smallish (8" diameter at the fat end) beech that had to be taken out due to storm damage. I felled the remainder of the tree the week after the storm, limbed it, at left it in my yard. Tonight the bottom 3' of that tree got run through the resaw jig. I learned some things tonight.
#1. Don't use screws that are too short.
#2. That funny green stuff on the outside means a BIG bonus on the inside....
Now this was not sitting in mud, but rather coated with leaves etc... more or less stickered up off the ground.
When I sliced that puppy open, you could see plain as day it had already spalted...
So I slabbed off 2 8/4 ~6" x 36" long boards, and now have them air drying in the shop....
This stuff is GORGEOUS! I figure I am gonna have to resaw the 8/4 into 2 @ ~ 4/4 so I have enough to face, and edge joint it down to 3/4", do a glue up of them to build up a set of 18" boards to build the display box for LOML's bouquet, garter, tiara etc...
#1. Don't use screws that are too short.
#2. That funny green stuff on the outside means a BIG bonus on the inside....
Now this was not sitting in mud, but rather coated with leaves etc... more or less stickered up off the ground.
When I sliced that puppy open, you could see plain as day it had already spalted...
So I slabbed off 2 8/4 ~6" x 36" long boards, and now have them air drying in the shop....
This stuff is GORGEOUS! I figure I am gonna have to resaw the 8/4 into 2 @ ~ 4/4 so I have enough to face, and edge joint it down to 3/4", do a glue up of them to build up a set of 18" boards to build the display box for LOML's bouquet, garter, tiara etc...
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