What are you building with your milled wood? merged

[295 tramp]

Thanks for all the likes. I went through 3 router bits on this project.
Hey Scheffa is that a neon ballast that you guys are using to burn those patterns?
I seen that years ago It looks cool as heck watching electricity travel across the wood.

 

[scheffa]

Still too much of a ***** to try it for yourself huh? It's amazing you even run a chainsaw. That's gotta be on the threshold of danger for you.

Thanks for all the likes. I went through 3 router bits on this project.
Hey Scheffa is that a neon ballast that you guys are using to burn those patterns?
I seen that years ago It looks cool as heck watching electricity travel across the wood.

I used a transformer from a microwave, incredibly easy to do

 

[295 tramp]

Finally finished.
Cedar poles 10 ft tall X 8 ft wide
Buried 4 ft
The chainsaw milled board is red oak 1 1/2"
Several coats of oil based poly.

 

[DTrap]

Looks great 295 tramp. Very nice work.

 

[rarefish383]

Looks good, should put a smile on the family's faces, Joe.

 

[KiwiBro]

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[295 tramp]

Nice work, good looking boards

 

[Cease232]

Here's a table I just finished. The lighting is terrible. Looks much better in person. Customer wanted it rustic so I left all the saw marks and cleaned it up with a brush sander. It's very smooth to the touch.

This was a big Doug fir that fell in a storm. I split it in half with my CSM and then squared it up on my BSM. After drying, back on the BSM to mill the parts. The legs are made with massive through tenons pegged with 1" pegs.


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[DTrap]

Looks really great. I'm hoping to make one similar to that before the end of the year.

 

[bobbobbobbob]

Lovely work particularly like the detailing.

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[KiwiBro]

Looks great. Can you please describe this joint for me? I'm not sure if those are dowels, screw caps/plugs, or something else. Maybe it's the camera angle but it appears they are too close to the top and bottom faces of the seat's cross-member/brace/rail/whatever the correct terminology is, to be dowels?

 

[KiwiBro]

Lovely work particularly like the detailing.

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Agreed. Also, if that is the customers place and some of the photos are of it in situ, it sits very well in the context of the floor and strikes a nice balance with the light. That floor and dark stained furniture can often close a room down and suck too much light but it looks like that's not an issue and is a actually a really nice fit.

 

[Cease232]

Looks great. Can you please describe this joint for me? I'm not sure if those are dowels, screw caps/plugs, or something else. Maybe it's the camera angle but it appears they are too close to the top and bottom faces of the seat's cross-member/brace/rail/whatever the correct terminology is, to be dowels?

The bench was an afterthought by the customer after the table was nearly completed. I made it happen with the cut offs remaining from milling the table. The joint your seeing is lag bolts with a dowel as a plug/cap. The photos a little deceiving regarding the location of the lag screw. There's plenty of wood there for the lag. Had to leave enough to ensure the lower stretcher didn't split out.
The table is made with true peg joinery. The tenon extends all the way through the leg and it's only secured with dowels and some glue.
Overall I'm happy with the table and do fell it looks good in the space. The lighting just makes it look a little darker than it actually is. I documented each step of the build with pics if it'll help answer any other questions. Although I've been woodworking a long time this was a learning process as I've never left anything rough sawn or with such massive joinery.

 

[KiwiBro]

Thanks. Precision joints with rough sawn stock is my kind of hair-pulling exercise. Would certainly be a challenge trying not to destroy the look by giving in to the urge to dress everything before marking out the joints or using jigs.

 

[Cease232]

Jigs were definitely my friend on this one. None of the cants were perfectly square, in fact some were very out of square. As long as the faces are flat and I referenced off the same faces every time the joints turned out great.

Here's the simple jig I made for cutting the through mortises.

Fit test.
Pretty good considering those tenons are 3" square and the mortise is 7" deep.


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[Revturbo977]

some of you guys are beyond talented. beautiful work

 

[Cease232]

Just finished this cabinet for my wife's birthday with some black walnut, Homemade hardware, hand cut dovetails, ebony drawer pulls.

Drawer fronts were cut from one piece for grain matching.
Jeremiah.

 

[rarefish383]

Very nice! How tall is it? Was having a little trouble putting it in perspective. You did a great job matching the grain, Joe.

 

[Cease232]

Very nice! How tall is it? Was having a little trouble putting it in perspective. You did a great job matching the grain, Joe.

Thanks, it's 38.5 tall, 32" wide (not including the crown).
Jeremiah


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[BobL]

Back in 2008 I milled this log


Last week I gave one of the slabs to my BIL (of BIL mill fame) and he and his son in law tuned it into a top for an outdoor table.