Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:03 pm
Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:27 am
Pablo wrote:Almost forgot - for sure is this WRC?
Got the walnut. Is the littlest one fir?
Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:03 am
PMB wrote:Pablo wrote:Almost forgot - for sure is this WRC?
Got the walnut. Is the littlest one fir?
Yes, WRC, despite the tendency towards a honey-colored heartwood.
I think you said you wanted a small piece of Walnut but wanted to make sure that you had options in case the walnut wasn't enough, so I shotgunned your order. I don't remember which pieces exactly... Just tried to cover possibilities.
Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:13 am
Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:49 am
Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:25 am
Sun Sep 16, 2018 10:53 am
Pablo wrote:Is this fir:
sportsdad60 wrote:^^ Nice!
I'll start working my wood sometime in Oct/Nov. Too many summer projects to finish up this month and a fishing trip to Northern MN is on the docket.
Papa-Charlie wrote:Would love to build a reloading table from one of those slabs when we get our retirement home in Oregon as well. Grew up in Tillamook, hoping to end up in the area again.
Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:14 am
Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:17 am
Pablo wrote:Rough sanded cedar (WRC):
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Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:40 am
PMB wrote:Pablo wrote:Rough sanded cedar (WRC):
This one has me scratching my head.
It looks like that piece doesn't have any heartwood, but by ring count it certainly does. The color will show better after it is oiled and finished. The colors are richer, darker, more "contrast" when they are still green, and they recover that contrast (and more) when finished certain ways.
Is the other side of that slab just as "weak" in contrast?
I'll have a batch of cedar through the mill in a month or so to compare, although it is not green either. Soldier Citizen Mike came over and helped me and my sons drop a couple of westward leaning Cedars hanging over my workshop right as a westward blowing storm arrived. That was a few years ago, and the logs have aged on the log deck since.
Cedars have a very wide variety of characteristics, even to rot resistance. Color, grain, strength, flex - can all be different between two trees of the same variety, depending on the type and wetness of soil as well as the common differences in sun/shade patterns.
Cedars that grow up in certain types of swampy soil are not rot-resistant... Some seem to rot even faster than Douglas Fir.
Douglas Fir is one of the most underappreciated rot-resistant woods there is. I think that this is because it is such a common tree, and because it is used so much for framing lumber that we're accustomed to using it for its strength and covering it up with drywall.
Cut well and finished right, it can be every bit as attractive, beautiful as the hardwoods. But we're used to seeing that grain in 2x6s, so... => "commonplace." Medullary rays may be more striking in Oaks and such, and Black Walnut may have nicer "natural" colors, but thick slabs of Doug Fir are the bee's knees and underappreciated. IMHO.
Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:45 am
Sinus211 wrote:How are you guys planning to de-bark the slabs without damaging the live edge?
Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:14 pm
Sinus211 wrote:How are you guys planning to de-bark the slabs without damaging the live edge?
Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:23 pm
dreadi wrote:Sinus211 wrote:How are you guys planning to de-bark the slabs without damaging the live edge?
I don't. I just leave all the bark on.
Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:57 pm
PMB wrote:...but thick slabs of Doug Fir are the bee's knees and underappreciated. IMHO.
Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:56 pm