jjjaworski
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Since I am planning on retiring in October, I started to go through the mass of wood we harvested from the grounds people at the University I work at. Some were specimen trees and others were wind or bug damage.
We had chainsawed blanks and sealed them with anchor seal since they were still green. I had to laugh when I saw dates from 07/2008 ; 06/2008 ; 09/2006 and 07/2010.
I have been cutting up Mesquite , Arizona Ash , Mimbres Walnut ( NM species ) , Box Elder , Chinese Pistachio , Pecan , Sycamore and some curly Palo Verde.
Also some larger branch wood from Oleander and Aspen.
Mostly pen blank stock but some larger blocks for boxes / pepper mills. I tried to get as many bowl blanks first but checking was an issue. This was especially true with the Mesquite and the common wind checking it tends to get.
I was very surprised at the curl in the Palo Verde when I started to cut into it. I hope to turn a quick pen from it over the weekend.
Also cut into a burl section of the walnut.
It did keep me busy during Spring Break and it helped clean up the shop. I am pretty sure that my replacement would just toss it so felt compelled to save as much as I could.
Since I will have much more than I can ever use up I expect to post some for trade or sale ( eventually .. since I am getting lazy in my old age ).
We had chainsawed blanks and sealed them with anchor seal since they were still green. I had to laugh when I saw dates from 07/2008 ; 06/2008 ; 09/2006 and 07/2010.
I have been cutting up Mesquite , Arizona Ash , Mimbres Walnut ( NM species ) , Box Elder , Chinese Pistachio , Pecan , Sycamore and some curly Palo Verde.
Also some larger branch wood from Oleander and Aspen.
Mostly pen blank stock but some larger blocks for boxes / pepper mills. I tried to get as many bowl blanks first but checking was an issue. This was especially true with the Mesquite and the common wind checking it tends to get.
I was very surprised at the curl in the Palo Verde when I started to cut into it. I hope to turn a quick pen from it over the weekend.
Also cut into a burl section of the walnut.
It did keep me busy during Spring Break and it helped clean up the shop. I am pretty sure that my replacement would just toss it so felt compelled to save as much as I could.
Since I will have much more than I can ever use up I expect to post some for trade or sale ( eventually .. since I am getting lazy in my old age ).
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