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Long time ago store bought picnic tables were made with the lumber from ages old Redwood trees. They were great in the weather and pretty much bug resistant. In my 20s I would see them out at the curb on trash day because they were falling apart. The wood was still good except where metal fasteners were used. The wood turned black and deteriorated where they were placed. I brought many of them home and salvaged them. 15 or more years ago I made a bunch of acorn shaped birdhouses and gave them as Christmas presents. Recently I came across the scraps from then and decided to add them to my little bowl collection. The number of growth rings is just amazing. I counted 24 in a one inch span and when I think of how big some of those trees were I can only imagine how long they took to grow. These bowls are three inch in diameter. Used WOP to finish them and they sucked it up like paper towels. The finish passed all the way through to the outside in spots when I put the first coat on the inside. The birdhouses have six inch diameter bodies with eight inch diameter White Cedar caps and nine inches high.
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Got these built Saturday. Ran out of TimberLOK screws. That's the big black screw heads you see. Used D/W screws to finish it. They'll be replaced when The new stock of TimberLOKs arrive. TIMBERLOK
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I just saw a news report that people are poaching the burls growing on the Redwood trees in California. Here is a related item from the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/poachers-attack-beloved-elders-of-california-its-redwoods.html?_r=0 I can't believe that the money grubbing bastards would stoop so low. Please be careful where you buy your burl wood.
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Today's project was making 1200' of used redwood bevel siding into 1200' of new bevel siding. They wan to end up with at least 700 feet after the decorator gets done picking for color. Started as 6" wide ended @3.5" wide. This siding was new about 10 years ago. I don't know where they got it but it must have been very expensive. Vertical grain, clear heart. It is going to be used to cover a shed on an estate. So far we have only found one nail, amazingly enough before we hit it. Since our molder doesn't have tilting feed works we are doing all the work on saws and shapers. The straight line rip saw took two passes to get the center part out so no nail holes would end up showing. Then we made a tilted table for the planer to take all the parts to the same thickness, didn't work well. So we put them through the Gomad tilt shaper to take 1/4" off the face. 1/4" X 3 1/2" turned to shavings in one pass. The pieces that were odd thicknesses went through the widebelt on a carrier to take them down to the same. Then all went through the SAC shaper to put a 1/2" radius on the bottom edge. We decided to put them through the 12/14" table saw with a dado blade to make the notch along the bottom edge. 5 passes through power fed machines. Took two of us most of the day. We now have a nice pile of redwood garden stakes taken from the thick edge. This is one of those things I really hate to see done. But at least part of it got saved. This is for the same people that had us make 35,000' of sapele T&G, clear, quartered and then painted it grey. Crime!
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From the album: Pens
Side 2 from a slightly different angle. -
From the album: Pens
Side one of this awesome pen. I finished it to a medium gloss with CA, because I wanted it to have a look and feel of more like wood than glass.
