Future table and..?

[dustyjay]

I can't take credit for sawing this, though I did fell it, skid with horses, and deliver to the mill. This was Months ago. Truthfully, I'd just about forgotten about these logs and this project.

I had to go over to the mill yesterday. Nobody was in the office, so I walked out to watch Ken mill. Watch and learn. My first sense was the smell of oak- I love that smell. Then I get to watch Ken mill a super nice, big cant of oak, sawing off wide boards, then 8/4 to get a heartwood post. In this 5 minutes of sawing I got a fair amount of mill envy, and oak envy too "Some lucky SOB's getting some nice oak!"  I said to myself. It was the last log so I helped Ken clean up and hung out to chat.


  

 

This is my forgotten oak! I'm the lucky SOB! 8) What a nice feeling that was. I'll be making a trestle table (with a twist). I think there's enough left over that I might make my kitchen cabinets out of it. Some of the boards are 15" wide 5/4 or 6/4 I think, carefully stacked and stickered today.

I'll put up more pictures when I get it home and start opening the bundle. I'm not sure when I'll get to building the furniture. ANy other suggestions of what to use this for?

[beenthere]

bug cant of ok,

Had me going there for a while... ;D

[dustyjay]

bug cant of ok,

Had me going there for a while... ;D

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[m wood]

Oh boy DJ, your fittin right in  :D. UHHH ,yes there might be some oak left after making your table .  very nice forgotten oak you got there.

[dustyjay]

Not great pics from a camera phone, but here's some wide oak. It's on the bottom of the pile, and will be sealed on the ends tomorrow. I hope to avoid too much cupping.


  

  

  

 

[sandhills]

That's gonna be one big table!  If I was you I'd just plan on building it in place  :D

[Lud]

Good looking stock!  Wide boards like that can make some great chests.  Cut an end, then front, then other end and then back so the grain wraps around.  Size it by what a single plank can make the lid.

Danny can probably tell you how to do it with dovetails! 8)