Walnut that will not make it to the fire place!

[smokinj]

41X20X 2-1/2

 

[Cate68]

Glad to hear that! What a beautiful piece of wood...what are your plans for it?

 

[Thistle]

+1 Now thats what I'm talkin' about! :coolsmile:

 

[Danno77]

not another table. what's this for? Dry bar? or maybe a coffee table.

 

[smokinj]

This is my first board every for sale.....

 

[Willman]

Nice slab. Was it milled with your chain saw mill? Did you run it through a planer ? I see you got a bid on it already. Good luck.
Will

 

[smokinj]

Nice slab. Was it milled with your chain saw mill? Did you run it through a planer ? I see you got a bid on it already. Good luck.
Will

Yes chainsaw. Hand planed and sanded. Not many planners out there that wide. I have some black walnut that will go 25inch wide 8 foot long and 3 inchs thick. Those will be bar tops and fire place mantels.

 

[Dune]

Nice slab. Was it milled with your chain saw mill? Did you run it through a planer ? I see you got a bid on it already. Good luck.
Will

Yes chainsaw. Hand planed and sanded. Not many planners out there that wide. I have some black walnut that will go 25inch wide 8 foot long and 3 inchs thick. Those will be bar tops and fire place mantels.

I have a 24" Yates. There should be a sawmill somewhere that could plane 20 inches.

 

[smokinj]

Nice slab. Was it milled with your chain saw mill? Did you run it through a planer ? I see you got a bid on it already. Good luck.
Will

Yes chainsaw. Hand planed and sanded. Not many planners out there that wide. I have some black walnut that will go 25inch wide 8 foot long and 3 inchs thick. Those will be bar tops and fire place mantels.

I have a 24" Yates. There should be a sawmill somewhere that could plane 20 inches.

There maybe, but growing up in a cabinet shop I make pretty quick work of it. That slab busted down to 180 grit both sides 3 hours.

 

[Mmaul]

It makes really nice furniture. Same Tree.

 

[raybonz]

Talk about beautiful slab wood! Man that is some pretty wood grain! I sometimes think that some of the best looking oak I have seen has been burned in my woodstove..

Ray

 

[Mmaul]

I think the same thing sometimes.

 

[smokinj]

I think the same thing sometimes.

Its an awesome slab. Next bar tops and mantels. +2 some really nice pieces have come off the splitter. Todd is grabing scraps and making fire place benchs off the same log.

 

[Mmaul]

That will look nice, I still have about 9 3-4 foot trunk section of walnut at my house I need to

 

[smokinj]

That will look nice, I still have about 9 3-4 foot trunk section of walnut at my house I need to

Everything I have outside is frozen soild to the ground...

 

[Mmaul]

my trunks are on pallets I bet I can remove them. you need them?

 

[mayhem]

This sort of thing makes me want to invest in one of those chainsaw home sawmills and start making tables or something. I have some nice trees on my lot, some trunks in the 18-24" range...make some nice planks and put them together to make a tabletop. How cool would that be to have a table I made myself out of trees from my own yard?

Or to make my own 6x6 building frame posts for a wood shed or garage or whatever?

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Looks great Jay!

I haven't sold anything on the bay. But can you expand your listing by adding bar top, mantel, etc?

Billy

 

[offroadaudio]

Don't burn tomorrows furniture today!

Hey Smoke'n - question for you

I recently built some stairs in the house and have not put on finish treds and risers yet. After a lot of grading in the yard, it looks like I'll be loosing several large black walnut trees. I'm wondering if I should use that wood as my stair finish. In your experience - what might be the best way to make this happen:

Cut and take logs to the mill and have them cut and kiln dry

Have someone with a portable mill come to the site?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

 

[smokinj]

Looks great Jay!

I haven't sold anything on the bay. But can you expand your listing by adding bar top, mantel, etc?

Billy

Yes Billy, I tryed to milling Tuesday I have a really nice long black walnut. I landed on my back hard pulling on that peavy..lol
Also be doing buther blocks, rolling pins, lath blanks,mantel, bar tops and Guitar blanks.

 

[smokinj]

Don't burn tomorrows furniture today!

Hey Smoke'n - question for you

I recently built some stairs in the house and have not put on finish treds and risers yet. After a lot of grading in the yard, it looks like I'll be loosing several large black walnut trees. I'm wondering if I should use that wood as my stair finish. In your experience - what might be the best way to make this happen:

Cut and take logs to the mill and have them cut and kiln dry

Have someone with a portable mill come to the site?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Depends on how quick you need them?

 

[offroadaudio]

Well we've been using the sub treds for about a year now - so what's another year right!?
I assume your point is, the mill could kiln dry in 30 days
If it's milled on site and stacked - we're talking a year or so?

 

[smokinj]

Well we've been using the sub treds for about a year now - so what's another year right!?
I assume your point is, the mill could kiln dry in 30 days
If it's milled on site and stacked - we're talking a year or so?

For stairs if you milled it at 2-1/4 inchs cut your treads out and wax the ends good(melted candle wax) I would place them right away. I would also use a finnish wax on the flat surface for a couple years. Then you could strip it easy and do something else later.

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Ouch! That will really jar ya. I broke my peavy last fall and ended up taking three steps back and ended up on my butt.

Billy

 

[smokinj]

Ouch! That will really jar ya. I broke my peavy last fall and ended up taking three steps back and ended up on my butt.

Billy

Yea I seen that handle bending a little the the hook rip the bark off. That 3 step thing you got a sec. to think before you see the stars.lol