Show Off Your Lumber Stash


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Yes Ken a walnut cabinet for the shop. It's only the sides of the door, drawer front and edge banding for an accent. The vast majority of it is baltic birch. I am doing my wall hanging plane and tool cabinet in homage to H.O. Studley so thought a fancy wood for the door and drawers would be an advertisement to visitors (and potential customers) to the shop.

I hope we will be getting lots of pics of this build!

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Yes Ken a walnut cabinet for the shop. It's only the sides of the door, drawer front and edge banding for an accent. The vast majority of it is baltic birch. I am doing my wall hanging plane and tool cabinet in homage to H.O. Studley so thought a fancy wood for the door and drawers would be an advertisement to visitors (and potential customers) to the shop.

Terry, great idea!

I wanna see too. Post it.

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Um lets see,  I have 

300 bf of american elm in 3.5" thick slabs, maybe 10 feet long, 1 tree

600 bf of kansas walnut in 2.5" thick slabs (drying) 2 trees

300 bf of quarter sawn sycamore. 1 tree

book matched pair of 2.5" warted oak slabs (diseased tree)  Really cool looking.

Lots of alder that was free from a job I was working at and the architect ordered a semi truck too much of really cool mouldings, casing, etc.  responsible for getting me into wood working and smoking salt.

50 bf of figured walnut shorts.

a few board feet of padauk, purple heart, jatoba.

 

For my next sawmill run, I have an on the list

300 bf hickory, 1 tree,

300 bf ash, 1 tree,

300 bf quarter sawn sycamore, 1 tree.

300 bf osage 1 tree.

 

And hopefully a kiln in the works in the next few months, otherwise it will have to just air dry.

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I am in the middle of a shop reorg so my stash is a little dangerous right now.

Two small apple slabs

A 4/4x14"x8' piece of figured maple (this is the off cut, I have a longer clear piece in the stack)

Other random stuff:

A whole bunch of cherry. Mostly 6/4 and 8/4. Some really dense 4/4 with lots of black gum pockets.

50bd ft of Ash.

Two bookmatched hard maple slabs (5/4)

Some flame birch

Some figured oak

2 sticks of CVG doug fir

2 sticks of really nice 8/4 quarter sawn red oak

3 teak deck boards left over from an outside project

One thing I have learned as a board hoarder. I never pays to buy random figured 4/4 boards. As nice as they look it is hard to fit into a project. If buying something on impulse, get 8/4 stock.

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Mike, Is the 1st pic the apple slabs?

 

Yes, I don't know what I am going to make with them.   Maybe a bench like this for our kitchen table.  If so I will not use the live edges.  I have a couple live edges pieces in my house already.  

 

That is the other thing I have learned about being a board hoarder.  Live edges look cool at the lumberyard, but you really can't fill a house with the stuff unless your taste is really modern (i.e. mostly metal and concrete furniture with a few wood pieces) or really rustic.  for most transitional type homes you can squeeze in a live edge or two before it starts to look out of place.  

 

 

http://www.finewoodworking.com/woodworking-plans/article/a-bench-that-fits-every-room.aspx

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Wish I had actual lumber stash. At the moment I'm a project by project lumber user sadly

 

That's not a bad thing.

Although my photography groups like to show off pics of their lens collections ... an empty camera bag is seen as an orphan of sorts.

Alas, it never ends.

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A before and after.  My pile of wood on top of my TS and outfeed table.  It's about as organized as it was before, where it was just stacked on top of some shelving units.

 

The after is the new rack I built - 2x4 vertical supports with 1/2" galv pipe to hold up the lumber.  I've seen similar plans before, but this is based on article I just saw in the "Storage Solutions" I just got from PWW.

 

From the top, I have some air dried ash and oak I got from a coworker, a little cherry and walnut, some hard maple, various figured woods (mostly quilted and curly maples), and then assorted pieces of oak, jatoba, monkeywood and some off-cuts.  Somewhere in there are a few pieces of bubinga and zebrawood.

 

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I have been woodworking for about 3 years, and currently don't have much of a stash.  I have a good friend and woodworking mentor who is also a wood hound.  Today, Bob and I started to "harvest" a sweet gum tree that a friend had cut down.  We will share the fruits of our labor.  It will probably take 3 or 4 days to get the wood to Bob's basement.

 

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I think I am off to a good start.

 

 

 

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Nice color ! Seems like I heard Sweet gum grain can be sorta spiral. Could be mistaken....

 

I have some other sweet gum that has an unusual grain.  I will post a picture tomorrow.

 

...... And there you go with that Bob guy again

 

Here's a pic of one corner of one room in his basement.

 

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I woke up this morning feeling like I spent yesterday chopping down a tree...

 

Today's challenge is splitting the the rest of the big logs, and getting 2 of them into Bob's truck.  This whole project will take 5 or 6 days.  I may go back to buying lumber after this is all over.

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A friend brought his freight trailer up last weekend packed with sawn oak boards for me. He'd had some work done on his castle (house) and these were the left over bits he brought me. I guess I have a few more oak projects to build in the next year or so :)

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Day 2 as a lumberjack...

 

This morning...Bob and I headed out to process and haul more of the sweet gum tree.

 

When we first arrived at the job site, we noticed that the core was noticeably lighter in color as the tree is already starting to dry.

 

Here's a picture:

 

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The challenge was to get the first 2 halves into the truck.  A 3 person job, but there were only 2 of us.

 

It took over an hour and a half, lots of grunting, groaning, straining, and resting. And we finally got them into the truck.

 

Number 1 in the truck...

 

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Number 2 in the truck...

 

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We then sawed the next log in half.  We did a much better job of sawing.  The color of this section is even sweeter...

 

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Tomorrow, there will be 3 of us.

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I looked it up, sweet gum does have a habit of twisting as it dries. Good luck, the color sure is nice.

 

Yes, not expecting long & wide planks.  Expecting to get boards suitable for accent pieces, or special purpose, like the front brace of a shelf, like the picture below.

 

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Here's an 8/4 8" x 3 feet board that I plan use to build a small keepsake box.

 

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Here's a 2" x 2" x 4 feet board that I will use as a shelf front.

 

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The grain pattern is awesome.

 

 

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