W.Y.
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Here is my start at dissecting the first and the smallest piece I got from Bruce (gofer) yesterday.
I was pleased to see so much red streaking in it . It was hard to determine which angles to cut at to harvest the most useful pieces while keeping in mind what each piece will eventually be made into once on the lathe. .
As can be seen in the largest cut piece on the left , the log was decayed in the center. But Hey . . I am sure not complaining . I was able to work all around it and save some real nice usable pieces.
I will work on the second one with all the burls in the same manner and then I am going to seal all the pieces with anchorseal until I get around to turning them.
As for the longer logs , Bruce already had a few of those sealed on the ends and I think I will double seal them and let them sit until spring because I have about 30 bowl blanks all cut out and sealed from another batch of logs he dropped off here at an earlier date. I just checked where I have then stored and no cracks at all so they are good to turn any time now.
Then I cut up the other one that had the burls on the outside. It was only decayed about 18" from one end . The rest was nice and solid with some awesome red streaking. I cut it into lengths and then halved them as close to the pith as possible to make some very nice bowl blanks .
The burls were mostly on the surface but a few of them went into the sap wood a little ways as well . Any burls salvaged will be big enough for pen blanks.
I was pleased to see so much red streaking in it . It was hard to determine which angles to cut at to harvest the most useful pieces while keeping in mind what each piece will eventually be made into once on the lathe. .
As can be seen in the largest cut piece on the left , the log was decayed in the center. But Hey . . I am sure not complaining . I was able to work all around it and save some real nice usable pieces.
I will work on the second one with all the burls in the same manner and then I am going to seal all the pieces with anchorseal until I get around to turning them.
As for the longer logs , Bruce already had a few of those sealed on the ends and I think I will double seal them and let them sit until spring because I have about 30 bowl blanks all cut out and sealed from another batch of logs he dropped off here at an earlier date. I just checked where I have then stored and no cracks at all so they are good to turn any time now.
Then I cut up the other one that had the burls on the outside. It was only decayed about 18" from one end . The rest was nice and solid with some awesome red streaking. I cut it into lengths and then halved them as close to the pith as possible to make some very nice bowl blanks .
The burls were mostly on the surface but a few of them went into the sap wood a little ways as well . Any burls salvaged will be big enough for pen blanks.