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Started by Bogue Chitto, May 11, 2012, 08:55:17 PM

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Ga Mtn Man

Hey, that's cheatin'!

Danny- Do you re-seal all your boards or just the thicker slabs?

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Magicman

Beautiful is a good word, but I also like "character".  It all depends upon the project.

In the above project, exquisite comes to mind.   :)
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NWP

I've got a mantle and corbles from an old barn beam.  What is a good way to connect it to brick without having anything showing?
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qbilder

I milled a dead standing oak to get this mantle. It's 3" thick, already pretty dry & had existing cracks & such. My wife wanted a new mantle and picked this tree specifically for the job because of it's twists & knots.



  

 
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4speed

These two ERC's are at the southwest corner of our house. They have more metal in them than a scrap yard. The tops have twisted out of them due to high winds over the years. I plan to cut a live edge mantel for our new home, leaving the embedded hinges as "conversation pieces."   

  

  

 
Sorry for the poor quality of the photos. The lens on my cell phone camera is covered with saw dust and I don't know how to take it apart to clean it. :)

Charles135

WDH, Wow!  That is beautiful! 

4speed,
That will be a very nice addition and keep sake for your new house. 
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Berggie

This is an Oak mantle cut from a tree removed from the grounds of the hosptal I work at, it had to go for the expansion of the parking lot. I  milled and plained into a mantle for the new employee lounge.

  

  

 
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DR_Buck

I have one waiting to get installed on my fireplace.   4" thick 10" wide ERC 14 ft long.  Almost perfectly clear and red with very little white sap wood.
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Berggie
That is some real nice work there. The wood and stone go together very nicely.

Employee lounge?  Pretty good treatment.
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Lud

My gallery has one I did a few years ago for a friend .  The room was 13 &half feet wide and we did a 14" x4" that spanned the whole room.  Spectacular!    So there's an idea for you.  Long Mantles.  The guy's wife would touch it and say, "How did you get it so smooth?" ;D
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123maxbars

Here is a question, I have alot of slabs that are easily large enough to make a good mantle.
How dry (moisture level) should the mantle be before finishing installing? Are some of you guys installin them green right off the mill? It appears in some of these post that you can finish and install one straight off the mill, Just trying to educate myself as usual,
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WDH

Quote from: Ga Mtn Man on November 29, 2012, 08:24:22 AM
Hey, that's cheatin'!

Danny- Do you re-seal all your boards or just the thicker slabs?

Just the thick slabs that are not dry.  I suspect that they will finish the mantle with danish oil, so leaving the ends with the anchorseal for a while will not hurt anything at all.  I would prefer that the mantle be fully dry before installing.  This one has dried for over a year and a half and still has a way to go.  However, since most of the mantle has reached fiber saturation point where there is no free water in the cells, just bound water in the cell walls, the chance of twist, cup, or warp are lessened.  Also being 4" thick helps a lot too.

NWP, one way to attach is take a 1" masonary bit and drill two holes in the fireplace.  Then drill corresponding holes in the back of the mantle.  Take some 1" threaded rod and insert in the holes in the fireplace.  Then push the mantle onto the threaded rod about two thirds of the way into the mantle.  The threads create a friction fit to hold the mantle tightly to the fireplace.  If you have corbels, they can be glued on to give the look but not actually support the mantle.

Berrgie, Nice!!!

4sped, never seen a hinged mantle before  :D.  Definitely one-of-a-kind!
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NWP

Thanks WDH.  That sounds pretty easy.  My cousin tears down old barns and sells the wood.  We traded the mantel for something and then it has been sitting in the basement for a couple of years waiting to be installed.  My wife will appreciate it too. ;D
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beenthere

Quotehas reached fiber saturation point where there is no free water in the cells, just bound water in the cell walls, the chance of twist, cup, or warp are lessened.

Danny
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Doesn't movement take place below FSP when the bound water leaves the cell walls and the cells shrink?
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WDH

BT,

It is my understanding the the trickiest part of drying is getting down to the fiber saturation point.  Once there, you can speed up the drying a bit without as much chance for defect.
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Ironwood

I do some burled ones. This is a 18'er, burl in dead middle RARE, I have never seen one so long/ straight before OR since.....

Ironwood



 

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DR_Buck

Quote from: ohsoloco on May 11, 2012, 10:02:50 PM
My uncle gave me some white cedar logs a few years back.  One of the butt logs had this hanger in it.  Part of it was grown over, but it still swung freely.  That enabled me to saw around it, as close as I dared to go  ;)  I know I was cringing when I made these last few cuts  :D

Where is your sense of adventure?  I ususlly saw right through stuff like that!    :D :D :D

Ironwood -  Nice mantle!
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123maxbars

Quote from: Ironwood on November 30, 2012, 12:23:37 AM
I do some burled ones. This is a 18'er, burl in dead middle RARE, I have never seen one so long/ straight before OR since.....

Ironwood



 

That is a nice one! Got any close up shots of the burl?
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Ironwood

I dunno, need to look, pre-digital era.....


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