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I'm short on beer money, but have plenty of popcorn!!

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Count me in for the journey. We gonna have donuts to kick it off?

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23 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Need to print these out..sometime..

WOW! Looks like your sketchup brain cells are working overtime!

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Just a bit of "Tinkering" around with the Single Brain Cell Sketch Up.....Maybe re-size things upwards...as I have a couple 3/4" x 7-1/2" x 72"  Ash Planks...and double each dimension ?  We'll see...

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Ok..Will be sorting through a pair of 1 x 8 x 6' Ash Planks.....and see what I can rough cut to start up with..

 

Stay tuned...

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Keepsake Box Lumber supplies...

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Have a 6' slab like this, and it's 4' look alike..

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from one 10' plank....may rip the bad stuff off, and do a couple glue up with what is left...

A 1 x 6 has other issues...

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Lay it down flat?   Low-HIGH-Low.....no, it is not from a Buckeye tree...

 

Ok..have 2 pieces from a 12' plank...of 1 x 8  ( 7-3/4")  that MIGHT yield enough for the box...

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If I can work around the Live edges...

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We'll see how it all turns out....top and bottom panels may get a glue up.and a resaw...

 

Stay tuned..

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If anyone can get what's needed from those boards, it is you Steven!!

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Spent a wee bit of time today...hauled the 2 bad planks to the shop...Plan being to remove the nasty sections, and still have enough to glue up 2 panels, one for the top and one for the bottom of the box...AND..resaw them down to 5/8"Strong...

1st cut..on the longer plank..

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Got rid of this FUBAR...

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Then a couple more cuts...

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And set them aside, for now..length is around 15", or so..

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So that plank #2 can be cut down...

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A couple more cuts...2 plus that nasty looking end..headed over to join a few others...

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Next up? rip off the curves..

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Run the flat part down onto the tablesaw, and against the fence....and let the curve just flop down to the side..

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#5 had a bit of a twist going on...

One beside it, wasn't a whole lot better...

 

Reset the fence, the 4 best ones needed to be a bit thinner, like down to 5/8" thick..

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Which left these behind..about 1/8" thick...so...

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Will need to plane these flat, and straighten out the twist in the back one...

trying to get to about 7" wide.   and be trimmed down to 14" long...

 

Was a busy morning..

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Ya think?    

 

have since hauled the "good" pair of planks to the shop...we'll see what all I can mill up out of those 2..Later

 

Stay tuned..

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I am exhausted!

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