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I got a load of 3” thick maple and 5” thick maple. I cut the 5” into a few large bowl blanks and large spindle blanks. The 3” thick I cut a bunch of 6-1/2” bowls for my Woodcraft classes and some 14” blanks for myself. The hardest part was trying to find storage for all of it.
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First time Cutting up and Splitting a wood from a Freshly Fallen Oak.
AndrewB posted a topic in Wood Turners
So a couple of weeks ago my parents decided to have an oak tree that was leaning way too far out cut down and removed. Ran over there asked the tree cutters to save me a 4 foot chunk that was 10 to 12 inches in diameter. They had it dropped and cut the same day and by 5 pm that night wound up comin back home with a 400 to 500 pound chunk of oak tree. Weighed the back end of the subaru down quite a bit fortunately there not that far away. So I got it home dragged it out cut a chunk off normal way youd cut fire wood to see how it would look turned a bit turned it down into a bowl shape the grain is quite nice. But today I said nope I'm splittin the hole thing down the middle and savin half the time so one piece went to waste as a test piece but I still got 4 foot or so. I do not have a decent splitting maul just a little electric wen chain saw sharpened up that does pretty decent work as long as the chain is sharp and oil in the saw. But this morning I got that thing split finally. Now I can start makin bowls out of it. Did someone say make like a tree and split?
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Most people prep their boards this way. 1. Joint one face 2. Joint one edge. 3. Plane to desired thickness. 4. Rip to Width. Here is my method. 1. Joint one face 2. Mark the Jointed face so that the grain is orientated to way I need it for my project and mark in chalk my board width. 3. Band saw the chalk lines. 4. Joint once edge. 5. Plane to desired thickness 6. Rip to width. You do waste more wood but you get much better looking projects. How do you do board prep?
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A collection of articles by Woodsmith on finishing. My only caution is that "pre-stain conditioners" don't always work as advertised, or as shown in the example. I just saved you $7.95
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