What are you building with your milled wood? merged

[stipes]

Looks great!!!!

I built this table for my brother just before Christmas.

This is a dumb question and forgive me for askin,,,but what finish do you use to keep the bark from breaking,,peeling off??? Poly????

 

[Can8ianTimber]

Nice! How big is that? Looks pretty big.

That is pretty cool. I have never seen one where they left the bark on. my slabs usually have part of the bark fall off and then it looks funny to only have partial bark live edge.

 

[aquan8tor]

Aggie, that's a beauty of a table!! Sweet work!

Well, I've never made a live edge table with bark on it, but I do make a lot of natural edge bowls with bark. Wish I had pics to share. I use a LOT of superglue. It comes in 16 or 32oz bottles marketed at woodturners. I like "starbond". Occasionally I don't really need it, if the tree is cut in the winter for example. The sap being down makes the bark fit "tighter" due to lower hydrostatic pressure in the trunk. in any case, the bark needs to be relatively porous for the superglue to soak in. Although it is the only glue that will stick to wet green wood, it needs repeat applications as the bark dries to ensure that it will stay attached.

Just a word to the wise: cyanoacrylate glue (superglue) releases toxic fumes. I have a full face respirator for sanding dust, which comes in handy--it will really burn your eyes, and could give you permanent damage. Make sure you do it outside or in front of an exhaust fan. If you feel funny, GET OUTSIDE! Epoxy is just as toxic, but messier! I like the ease and speed of CA glue. Plus you can use accelerator and make it cure in a few seconds, no matter whether you use thin or thick viscosity.

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Nice! How big is that? Looks pretty big.

It's not all that big. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 feet roughly.

This is a dumb question and forgive me for askin,,,but what finish do you use to keep the bark from breaking,,peeling off??? Poly????

My brother actually finished this. I just built it for him. He used tung oil & wipe on poly.

That is pretty cool. I have never seen one where they left the bark on. my slabs usually have part of the bark fall off and then it looks funny to only have partial bark live edge.

This was knocked over in the winter and the bark is pretty well stuck but there is always a chance it will work loose over time with seasonal movement. As aquan8tor said, CA glue and epoxy will fix it if it does.

 

[Daniel P.]

Here is a link to our lodge, we milled all the beams out of cottonwood, the cabinets out of oak, some vanities out of walnut, insides of closets out of red cedar and the porches out of cedar. Built the whole place ourselves, my dad my mom and I. We bought the flooring, pine paneling, log cabin siding and wall studs, the rest was milled.

http://www.kansaswhitetailturkeyhunts.com/retreat.htm

 

[mtngun]

Daniel P., I especially like your cordwood bar.

 

[irishcountry]

Holy crap lots of nice projects guys!!! I second the cordwood bar nice touch!!

 

[BobL]

Just a word to the wise: cyanoacrylate glue (superglue) releases toxic fumes. I have a full face respirator for sanding dust, which comes in handy--it will really burn your eyes, and could give you permanent damage. Make sure you do it outside or in front of an exhaust fan. If you feel funny, GET OUTSIDE! Epoxy is just as toxic, but messier! I like the ease and speed of CA glue. Plus you can use accelerator and make it cure in a few seconds, no matter whether you use thin or thick viscosity.

About 10 years ago I came close to poisoning myself using epoxy 2 pack finish. I was finishing an Oregon benchtop and wearing plastic gloves but the brush kept dropping hairs which are impossible to pick up wearing plastic gloves. So I took my left hand glove off and use it to pick up the hairs. After about 15 minutes the tips of my fingers on both hands started to tingle and by the time I stopped my mouth had started to tingle and was feeling a bit nauseated so I knew something was wrong.

I ran the local poisons centre and together we worked out - using the MSDS sheet for the product - that I was not going to die but and that someone should just watch me and take me to hospital if I started feeling worse. It was 11 pm at night and the only other person at home was my sleeping 16 year old son so I woke him up to tell him what was happening - he just went back to sleep! Anyway within an hour the tingling had gone and I was feeling OK.

 

[irishcountry]

Thats scary glad it went away!!!!

 

[BobL]

Thats scary glad it went away!!!!

Yeah - I have experienced the same finger and mouth tingling (but not the accompanying nausea) twice before.

Once was when I was stupid enough to try foogo fish!!! Apparently that is normal and is why they do it?

The other time was when I ate too much of this killer chinese chilli sauce - it also had bucket loads of corriander seeds in it so the sensation on the tongue was something like sucking on a lemon after having a 1000 small cuts made in your tongue.

 

[Eddie39]

WOW!!!! That's a really fine place you built sir ,rep for that ..!!!

 

[tomtrees58]

some red oak this week

 

[tomtrees58]

 

[Eddie39]

it certainly doesn't look like you have a shortage of hardwood in your area that's for sure

 

[tomtrees58]

it certainly doesn't look like you have a shortage of hardwood in your area that's for sure

all hardwood here not to much pine just oaks

 

[Eddie39]

your very lucky to have that much hardwood .some people have all the luck tom

 

[tomtrees58]

thanks the oaks here are 125 to 180' and some are 5 to 8' dba

 

[tomtrees58]

its the luck of the irish

 

[Eddie39]

Stop showing me photos of all that oak tom LOL
Bit ironic to they call the county i live in the broad leaf county as it used to be covered with oak trees people even used to wear an oak leaf on there coat on certain days of the year i would have liked to have seen that only problem being chainsaws wouldn't have been invented then

 

[tomtrees58]

Stop showing me photos of all that oak tom LOL love my oaks tom trees /duffy