What are you building with your milled wood? merged

[sachsmo]

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Built a playhouse for the kids out of sycamore and hemlock. I am building a door and windows out of some beech I milled and kiln dryed last year. Here is a couple pics of a piece I am planning for the door.

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[sachsmo]

Sycamore is sure purty wood!
My bud who was wood chuckin' since he was a kid, and swears he will never burn wood again.

He always said "Sycamore ain't good fer nuthin"".

I find it nice stuff, pretty light too. (when dry)

But as firewood, he is right on!

Keep postin' up them pics, most everything posted before is gone, and according to the guru, "it's gone because of the hack"

 

[tjbier]

Walnut top 1 1/2" and 100+yr old pine from and old barn for the base. 5x5" legs.
It's all clear coated but I am going to sand the top down some and hit it with more clear.

 

[Fallguy1960]

That is a excellent looking table. It well be a fine resting place for your Christmas goose.

 

[Laird]

My first project was this kiln which I finished up in July. I'm currently working on a run-in shed for our horses and will post pics when done. Next project is to plane down the load of Tulip Poplar in the kiln and put up a wood ceiling in the living room, but I won't be starting that till after the 1st of the year.

 

[tjbier]

Looks cool laird.
Keep us informed on how it works.. how long of boards can you fit in there

 

[huskyhank]

I am jealous of that kiln.

 

[Laird]

Looks cool laird.
Keep us informed on how it works.. how long of boards can you fit in there

10' right now, which is the max log length for my LT10. I'll probably build another one to handle 16' boards after I get a bed extension for the mill.

 

[tjbier]

So will you run a dehumidifier in there or whats the plan for it?
How long do you expect a load of wood to dry, 30,60 days ect?

 

[Laird]

So will you run a dehumidifier in there or whats the plan for it?
How long do you expect a load of wood to dry, 30,60 days ect?

No dehumidifier, it's heated and air is circulated by solar power only. I've only done one load so far and it was air dried down to 15%-20% moisture before it went into the kiln. Took another 6 weeks to get it down to 7%, but that's Tulip Poplar. Oak would take significantly longer. It all depends on the time of year, the wood being dried, the thickness, and how long it was air dried before it goes into the kiln.

 

[Stihl 041S]

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Do Lad. This is where you hang out.

Hello from the fight thread.

 

[Pfin]

Birch (3") and Oak (2.5"). This was a Christmas present I made for my mother and step-father. Inlayed with rocks from various locations around the world that are significant to them. My first tree to finished project on something of this size. I had the wife take a pic of the inlay and photo shop the locations of the rocks onto it which we gave them with the bench.

 

[Fallguy1960]

Very nice, I like the that you left some of the saw marks on the edge of the seat.

 

[jrhannum]

Pfin: side-shot pic, please

We'd like to see how you crafted the bench-ends (didja put in thru-bolts?) -- a bugaboo for we who make benches, so I buy/use Polly Products recycled-plastics

 

[kimosawboy]

I was able to finish this desk for the wife just in time for Xmas. Materials are Fir, Cedar, Maple and unfortunately I had to use some mahogany doorsking ply for the writing surface and the rear of the main carcass.

 

[sachsmo]

Speaking of Sycamore,

think this old dead standing one is what gave me the milling bug.

That and the fact an old boy in flat ash Indiana really doesn't need a (or 10) 100 cc saws!

Hear tell some folks call it "snakewood" I can sure see why.




After seeing what is inside a 'trash' tree, I have forever looked at trees differently.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Sycamore has beautiful grain if quarter sawed

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[Pfin]

Pfin: side-shot pic, please

We'd like to see how you crafted the bench-ends (didja put in thru-bolts?) -- a bugaboo for we who make benches, so I buy/use Polly Products recycled-plastics

I will likely not be able to get a side shot of the bench in the near future. I'm a newbie bench builder with plans for several more (different designs) so if you have pointers feel free to let me know. I used 4" coated lag screws to hold the oak trim pieces to the birch, every 5-6 inches. The oak is rounded over and sanded flush with the birch on the ends. The only crack mitigation I used was a butterfly spline... more decoration than anything. No thru-bolts or Flitchsavers. I air dried both the birch and oak for about a year, followed by kiln drying (self-made kiln), then another month of sitting out of the kiln before any shaping took place. We'll see how it ages. Thanks!

 

[jrhannum]

Bench-end crafting

I like a simple bench-end which won't break and doesn't compete with the beauty of the seat and back pieces (and doesn't eat too many hours of my time), thus the Polly Plastics. I have considered crafting a pair from a large (30 x 50) piece which has a few year's of drying yet to go. See the pic.