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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #40 on: July 16, 2007, 01:52:04 am »
Thank you all very much,

I am almost certain i know what Maple type it is, but i don't want to be presumptuous. The bark and texture of the wood are very familiar to me.
I believe i have cut the same type before with nice curl figure in it.

Junkyard, I have seen pens turned from Lilac and one of the Sumacs. You are right they are beautiful. Lilac smells wonderful when it is dried out and burned on a fire. If i see someone cutting some down i always ask for some.

Junkyard, i think most of us are naturally curious about different woods and figures in wood. Although sometimes curiosity gets the best of me. Don't ask me how i know...OK, i must confess. Several days ago i wasted a whole bunch of time and energy cutting up a huge Maple crotch hoping for some spalting, nice figure, etc. What i got was mostly a bunch of punky stuff with a couple of huge holes in it.
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #41 on: July 24, 2007, 11:05:08 pm »
This is the best "water mark" blistered soft /hard maple I have seen around these parts. This one is soft.
 

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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #42 on: July 25, 2007, 01:13:07 pm »
Here is an unusual one. I brought it up in the urban forestry section cause it was a yard tree. Red bud burl log (more burl than log  :D)

 

I sliced some 20-30 pound burls off of it, here are some of them. I should not have cropped the 5 gallon bucket out of the picture, it gave some scale. They are nice sized.

 

And some baby ones too.

 

I got three 5 gallon buckets of babies (size of a Big Mac- to the size of an apple pie) I cut one of the babies into pen blanks.

 

I turned a little scrap, there is alot of eyes/figure even in that tiny piece.

 

I sawed a few live edge slabs, they are small, but cool. I think a small table or something from them would be sweet.

 

I cut a few funky bookmatches too.

 

After all the pretty stuff was off I still has a 12" square cant...but the center was rotted out on one end and the thing is short. I pulled a couple boards and left it, I may saw on it some more. If I was needing 3-4 foot boards.

 
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #43 on: July 25, 2007, 06:36:27 pm »
Real nice Daren.  That is cool.  i"ve never seen a red bud like that!
Thanks everyone for posting pics.  Its great to see.  My stuff is all pretty plain, i gotta get some of that exotic looking stuff.
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #44 on: July 25, 2007, 06:42:24 pm »
Daren,
That turned piece looks like Thuya burl.  It sure is pretty. :)
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #45 on: July 25, 2007, 07:20:03 pm »
NNNNNNNNNice Daren. Reid
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #46 on: July 26, 2007, 02:46:14 pm »
Now that is what i'm talking about! Nice posts. There is some crazy figure out there. You guys rock! Reid that lower picture borders on what i'd call quilted figure.
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #47 on: August 03, 2007, 11:23:32 pm »
This may not be the all time fav,...

but its DanG close:


You would know that the customer is wanting plain vanilla Sweetgum for horse stall wood and my
logs come up with this yucky stuff.   

(Yuk, yuk, yuk)   ;D

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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #48 on: August 05, 2007, 11:16:07 pm »
That is some beautiful sweetgum. I have only cut one sweetgum before that was about 20 inches in diameter and 10 feet long. It was nice, but nothing like that. I'm not surprised it's going in a horse barn. I have seen a few barns that are nicer than peoples houses. I hope the horses appreciate it. LOL
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #49 on: August 06, 2007, 03:07:30 pm »
That's horrible, Phil.  Come on up to Athens and I'll trade you some creamy white sweetgum logs straight up for that ugly, mottled junk. ;D
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #50 on: August 07, 2007, 04:50:07 pm »
Very nice SG, Phil.
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Re: What are the most beautiful and unusual logs you have ever cut?
« Reply #51 on: August 07, 2007, 05:38:34 pm »
About that too-pretty SG going to the horse stables, er...,
 :-\
Well, ya see there were two trailers there for the lumber, uh....

One trailer was headed for the customer's horse barn and the
previously mentioned stall construction.  The other trailer was
to be taken back to my place.

Now we all know that you can't let green figured heart SG be
nailed up to dry too fast.  It would be just toooo likely to split
and warp.  Not enough restraint to keep it flat and too much air.
That would not be right for the customer, now would it ? !!

Sap wood to the customer's trailer and heart wood to MINE! ;)
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Even so, some of the pretty stuff is going to dress up the tops
of some of his stall rail system - at least until the horses gnaw it.

Phil L.                             P.S.   I cut 12 logs from 18" to 30" and
                                              every one of them had from 9" to
                                              18" of the good stuff.    Glad I had
                                              more than enough logs!                                         
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