What are you building with your milled wood? merged
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1stgenfarmboy
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Bought a Woodland Mills a few months ago, first was a shed, used grain bin side panels for the roof, cedar poles, and a standing dead oak, then a coat of used oil and diesel fuel, my Grandpa's Saw's for a little decor.
1stgenfarmboy
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Next was a 35ft bridge over a creek between the farm and my daughter's house for the grandkids to travel back and forth, the oak boards are 2.5 thick x 18 +.
Just a little 4 cyl "Onan" diesel. I do have a 30kw back in MD I'd like to sell or get up here to Maine with a 4Bt.
hazard
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I started my milling adventure over 3 years ago when my Mother In Law was cutting down a sweet gum tree, and I asked her to ask the arborist to leave the bigger logs so that I could try to cut them up. I only had an MS250 at the time, and couldn't justify making any big purchases at the time, so I ended up freehand milling one log, and then building a jig to use with the edging mills to run on a 2x6 to mill the second log vertically, which worked much better, and was inexpensive, just slow with the small saw. Now that I've had the slabs for years, I've been able to make quite a few projects out of the sweetgum:
I built a new main desk:
the top and the legs are all made from sweet gum, the only other wood are purpleheart wedges for the through mortise and tenons joints for the legs:
I've also built a small stool for my children:
I only added padauk as a contrast for the tenon key
Before I built the main desk above, I did a prototype, building a small desk/table for when I was doing virtual teaching from the basement:
I also built an outdoor bench for our backyard from one of the slabs with purpleheart bowties:
As a quick side project, I also turned a sidewheel for my lathe:
I built a new main desk:
the top and the legs are all made from sweet gum, the only other wood are purpleheart wedges for the through mortise and tenons joints for the legs:
I've also built a small stool for my children:
I only added padauk as a contrast for the tenon key
Before I built the main desk above, I did a prototype, building a small desk/table for when I was doing virtual teaching from the basement:
I also built an outdoor bench for our backyard from one of the slabs with purpleheart bowties:
As a quick side project, I also turned a sidewheel for my lathe:
A built-in desk for my Airbnb.
There's another 16" wide piece next to the laundry machines.
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Not "built" as such but I made this for our neighbors who are moving down South. It's an image of their house on a piece of redwood from a tree that originally stood in front of their house
Made this out of a Hickory that was struck by lightening. It was my son's wedding present. I definitely some things dealing with the epoxy and drying wood properly. I made a neat epoxy river head board out of the same tree that warped and was ruined. I never dried any of the slabs properly. Milled with my 3120xp.
The gun is set up for 1000 yards. We hope Iowa opens up the late high power season again soon.
The gun is set up for 1000 yards. We hope Iowa opens up the late high power season again soon.
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Czech_Made
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12 years ago I milled this log, a common Western Australian bloodwood called Marri.
Early settlers didn't like them as they suffered badly from ring shake so timber cutters and millers left them alone.
100+ years later they discovered that some logs didn't suffer ring shake and now its a prized furniture grade timber.
This log was particularly nice because it had an unusual curly grain.
I'd forgotten I even milled this log but stumbled across it amongst my slab stash and brought a couple of slabs home and they stood in my driveway for a couple of years.
Last year SWMBO asked me for a Wool Drum Carder as a Xmas present - I took one look at one on you tube and figured I could make it.
Drum carders tease out tangled mixed up hanks of dirty wool into beautiful long "bats" of aligned wooden fibres suitable for spinning or other wood crafts.
I though that a striking type of wood might be a good use for this item and a day or so later I was re-sawing a Marri slab to make the wooden components.
And 5 months later (this is really good for me!) here it is. All made in my home shop.
Apart from a couple of custom made bronze washers, all the metal bits, including the fasteners, are 316 Stainless steel.
I already had some of the 316 and all of the fasteners in my stash but did have to buy some 2" and 1 5/8" 316 shorts.
It took me a long time to turn all the pulleys, flanges, bearing holders and locking collars, but I count myself lucky I only had to make one part (a locking collar) twice.
The Carding cloth with all those spikes was the most expensive component and cost about US$80.
Here you can see the belt drive orientation and tensioning mechanism - it's set up this way so the two drums rotate opposite to each other to help tease out the wool.
The big drum is made up like a barrel - the centre of the drum is hollow as I was going to fill it with lead shot to give it increased smoothness and added angular momentum but the timber is pretty dense anyway so it was not needed.
I deliberately did not fill any cracks or defects in the timber - just showed the wood as it is. I did have to cut around some major defects so I probably used 30% more timber than I would have otherwise.
The is the underside of the frame showing the threaded sockets into which the removable legs are screwed.
The handle and legs can easily be removed to aid storage.
Under the feed in table I added a small box to put the tools and adjustment keys into
This is what the wool looks like before (this has already been washed) ie all tangled
This is after several passes thru the carder.
I really enjoyed this project and SWMBO is already heavily using it.
Early settlers didn't like them as they suffered badly from ring shake so timber cutters and millers left them alone.
100+ years later they discovered that some logs didn't suffer ring shake and now its a prized furniture grade timber.
This log was particularly nice because it had an unusual curly grain.
I'd forgotten I even milled this log but stumbled across it amongst my slab stash and brought a couple of slabs home and they stood in my driveway for a couple of years.
Last year SWMBO asked me for a Wool Drum Carder as a Xmas present - I took one look at one on you tube and figured I could make it.
Drum carders tease out tangled mixed up hanks of dirty wool into beautiful long "bats" of aligned wooden fibres suitable for spinning or other wood crafts.
I though that a striking type of wood might be a good use for this item and a day or so later I was re-sawing a Marri slab to make the wooden components.
And 5 months later (this is really good for me!) here it is. All made in my home shop.
Apart from a couple of custom made bronze washers, all the metal bits, including the fasteners, are 316 Stainless steel.
I already had some of the 316 and all of the fasteners in my stash but did have to buy some 2" and 1 5/8" 316 shorts.
It took me a long time to turn all the pulleys, flanges, bearing holders and locking collars, but I count myself lucky I only had to make one part (a locking collar) twice.
The Carding cloth with all those spikes was the most expensive component and cost about US$80.
Here you can see the belt drive orientation and tensioning mechanism - it's set up this way so the two drums rotate opposite to each other to help tease out the wool.
The big drum is made up like a barrel - the centre of the drum is hollow as I was going to fill it with lead shot to give it increased smoothness and added angular momentum but the timber is pretty dense anyway so it was not needed.
I deliberately did not fill any cracks or defects in the timber - just showed the wood as it is. I did have to cut around some major defects so I probably used 30% more timber than I would have otherwise.
The is the underside of the frame showing the threaded sockets into which the removable legs are screwed.
The handle and legs can easily be removed to aid storage.
Under the feed in table I added a small box to put the tools and adjustment keys into
This is what the wool looks like before (this has already been washed) ie all tangled
This is after several passes thru the carder.
I really enjoyed this project and SWMBO is already heavily using it.
Nice wood. Love the quilting. Amazing home-built machine.
kimosawboy
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Front Entry Door built with milled wood..Rails and Stiles are laminated edge grain fir wrapped with 1/4” maple… Frame is old growth Fir, All live edge stuff is maple as well as the solid figured wood below the side light...
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Czech_Made
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WOW!
Nice job, really unique!
You guys are putting me to shame in the looks department (beautiful, much of it), but I'm aiming for function only at this point.
I finally got my garden work table/seed starting table built. The shorter portion to the right is for my lady, as I'm 6'3".
I'm satisfied!
I finally got my garden work table/seed starting table built. The shorter portion to the right is for my lady, as I'm 6'3".
I'm satisfied!
Wow - what a view!
stonykill
ArboristSite Guru
Wow. I can't believe a thread I started a LONG time ago is still alive.
Beautiful work everyone!
Beautiful work everyone!
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