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Re: A Use for Slabs
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2009, 08:25:00 am »
If I know I'm getting into a clear log (especially pine) I'll take a heavy slab, flip it 90 degrees and cut 4/4 QS trim boards out of it.  I can get 15-20 really nice, straight grain boards out of a big log, and they look fantastic when clear finished.
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Re: A Use for Slabs
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2009, 07:42:27 pm »
Awwwww!  Slabs ain't good fer hardly nuthin. ;D
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Re: A Use for Slabs
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2009, 09:31:16 pm »
Quote from: Slabs on December 02, 2009, 07:42:27 pm
Awwwww!  Slabs ain't good fer hardly nuthin. ;D

Ha! Don't listen to him. He knows just what to do with em'. You aught to see his wood working shop and his house and his wood bin and his planer, his shaper and ....
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Re: A Use for Slabs
« Reply #23 on: December 03, 2009, 07:55:29 pm »

Ha! Don't listen to him. He knows just what to do with em'. You aught to see his wood working shop and his house and his wood bin and his planer, his shaper and ....
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I meant ME Olen.
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Re: A Use for Slabs
« Reply #24 on: December 03, 2009, 08:28:07 pm »
Yea, I know.  ;)
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