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Started by Jeff, October 01, 2003, 04:35:13 PM

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Jeff

Remember that auction I talked about in a thread called roads to the forum? Well, this is a pile of large, air dried, (well, they were dry), white pine cookies that corley5 bid on for me. I said buy them if you can get them cheap.

He bought the whole pallet load for 5 bucks!  I just took this picture, wonderful Michigan weather eh?

I am looking forward to making a few tables.

Just call me the midget doctor.
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Ezekiel 22:30

EZ

I made alot of them tables, put 50 grit paper on the drum sander and instance table, all I had to do was put legs on. Have'nt used the old girl for 2 yrs now. :-[
EZ

RavioliKid

Those look great, Jeff! In fact, they almost look like a sculpture just stacked up there.

 8)
RavioliKid

Jeff

All I got to sand them is a belt sander and elbow grease. :-/
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Ezekiel 22:30

Fla._Deadheader

  That's how we do it ;) ;) ;) :D :D :D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Jeff

yea, but I got it easier. You aint got all that white lubricant to use like we got here.
Just call me the midget doctor.
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Fla._Deadheader

  That's OK. We will fight it with dry wood ::) ::) ::) ;D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

biziedizie

  Cool Jeff, looks like what I have stacked but mine are kinda longer. Wanna see who can make the coolest table and have everyone be the judge??? ;D
 

      Steve

Jeff

Lets see your pile first. :D
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Fla._Deadheader

  You guys wanna do this, Do ya REALLY wanna do this ;D :D :D :D :D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Jeff

You cant play. :D

Actually, I cant compete with bizzy either when it comes to materials. Now, if we all started with equal materials, I think I could KICK YER BUTTS. ;D ;)
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Fla._Deadheader

All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

biziedizie

  I'm game 8) Seen that pic of my deck table??? Kinda nice hey :) That's just a proto type ;D Gotta bunch more slabs and I want to white wash one before I finish it 8)
  Either way I want to see what you can do 8) I to use a belt sander so the competition is the same, except I don't have snow ;D ;D


     Steve

Jeff

I already have examples on here somewhere.
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

biziedizie

  Post the pics Jeff as I've never seen them :o


    Steve

Jeff

Just call me the midget doctor.
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

RavioliKid

Oohhh! Jeff!  :o

Those are gorgeous!
 :)
RavioliKid

ronwood

Nice looking tables Jeff   ;)
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biziedizie

 :) Very nice looking tables :)
  That second one, what kinda wood is that???


     Steve

Texas Ranger

Jeff broke the rules allready, one of the tables, is a bench. 8)
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

Fla._Deadheader

  Keen eye, Staples. That's probably why he wouldn't let me play 8) :D :D :D :D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Stephen_Wiley

Show us the pics, Deadheader - your in the game now !  8)
" If I were two faced, do you think I would be wearing this one?"   Abe Lincoln

Jeff

Wrongo there Mr Staples, it was a bench till we set it in front of the sofa. That makes it a table.

Bizzie, thats red maple. What we refer to as soft maple. It was just an everyday slab I brought home cause it was about the right thickness. :D We chip thousands like it every week.
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Texas Ranger

Hmm, don't make me go back where you showed this bench before, and called it a bench, for your 'somebody' wedding party.  Or graduation.  You can call it a table if you like, but WE KNOW BETTER!   ;D  ;D  ;D  8)  8)  8)
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

Jeff

Quoteit was a bench till we set it in front of the sofa
;D
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

shopteacher

Very, very nice work Jeff.  The first one reminds me of a toadstool. I don't think you'd have trouble selling them and if you say that second one is a table, them by gummy it's a table.
Proud owner of a LT40HDSE25, Corley Circle mill, JD 450C, JD 8875, MF 1240E
Tilt Bed Truck  and well equipted wood shop.

Jeff

God made these tables. I just sanded them and stood em up.
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Jeff

Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Texas Ranger

Jeff, like you idea about who made the materials.  I do a little turning and carving, my wife asks how I get the ideas.  My standard answer is " I just look and see what God put inside, and release it".

Drives her nuts.
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

Bigdogpc

I thought this was a competition?  Whar's the other guy's pixs?  Great looking tables/bench Jeff.

Jeff

Started this project this week. This big ol' white pine cookie had a seam in it. It rolls into the center of the heart. I am hoping this defect will keep this table from spliting. I would think that seem will act as a stress relief point and simply widedn more rather then break open some where else.

Any ideas on how to tackle the process of smoothing off all that end grain?


Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Haytrader

Don,

I thought of a story after you sayin "you just release it".
I grew up with Stan Herd, the land mural artist. He once did the Indian Santana on a quarter section. One of his uncles here is somwhat of a comedian and when another local asked how in the world did Stan know how to do that, the uncle said.............."Well, that's the easy part, he just goes out there and mows everything that doesn't look like an Indian."

 :)  :)  :)

Haytrader

ARKANSAWYER

   Can I play?  can I huh can I huh?   I will bring it in and put it in front of the couch.
ARKANSAWYER


ARKANSAWYER

Jeff

I saw that one down with Wanda.  I started putting on just 3 legs. Ya dont need a bandmill to get them to set level that way. ;D
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Minnesota_boy

I like the idea of a bench with 3 legs.  You can tip them over 3 different directions!  :D
I eat a high-fiber diet.  Lots of sawdust!

pappy

Here's my slab table, a tad large fer in front of the couch though. she's a 10 footer   ;)





except fer the middle pieces on the table top all the other parts have at least one live edge.
"And if we live, we shall go again, for the enchantment which falls upon those who have gone into the woodland is never broken."

"Down the Allagash."  by; Henry Withee

Jeff

Cool!  I cant find the pics of my picnic table on here. Thought I had posted them once.
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Jeff

I have almost completed the table in post 30. I used a woodburned to burn in thelines for the checker board and now am using different layers and colors of stain to finish it up. It may recieve a glass top so you can actually play on it. THe seam in it would make it difficult for checkers or chess without it.


Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Tom

That's a very colorful throw-rug the table is sitting on, Jeff.  Is that a Michiganner classic? :)

Jeff

Yep, if ya need directions I can tell ya how to make one sorta like it.
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

L. Wakefield

   The real speshul stuff in a throw rug like that is the binding material to keep the parts together. Some have used oatmeal to good effect.  lw
L. Wakefield, owner and operator of the beastly truck Heretik, that refuses to stay between the lines when parking

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