Walnut Slabs: Good Deal or Not?

[Coop]

You may want to consider some 4/4 or 5/4 in case you get tired of tables. I made that mistake but not with the volume you're talking about. It's disheartening running a 6/4 slab thru the planer to get to 1" or 3/4"

[Pondhockey]

3 hours ago, K Cooper said:

You may want to consider some 4/4 or 5/4 in case you get tired of tables. I made that mistake but not with the volume you're talking about. It's disheartening running a 6/4 slab thru the planer to get to 1" or 3/4"

Yup.  My first project involved taking a 2 1/2 inch slab down to 1 1/4.  That's a lot of chips from a lot of good wood.  I don't happen to know a local mill that can re-saw slabs, though.

[Brendon_t]

On 2/19/2017 at 1:51 PM, Eric. said:

It should go without saying by now that not all wood is created equal - despite popular belief and wishful thinking among the masses...I mean who knows how those slabs were handled in the kiln?  But you can't buy firewood for that cheap, so yeah, it's a damn good deal either way.  Let's hope they don't crumble to pieces when you cut into them because someone nuked them from the inside out.

Can you speak some more to what you've seen from improperly kiln dried stock like that?

I know about the drying off the cells and enhancement of that brittle feeling but I can't figure out how you could essentially turn it into mush with low long heat.

[Eric.]

Can you speak some more to what you've seen from improperly kiln dried stock like that?

I know about the drying off the cells and enhancement of that brittle feeling but I can't figure out how you could essentially turn it into mush with low long heat.

 

Google "case hardening lumber."

 

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