What are you building with your milled wood? merged

[Cabin by the Creek]

 

[Cabin by the Creek]

 

[JTM]

I've been looking for those old sewing machine bases to use.

 

[Johnnybar]

Are most of you fellas using a heat cycle on the lumber and slabs before the projects begin or are there other options these days? I saw one guy use a salt/boric acid mixture rolled on the wet slabs but, I'm not sure if that replaces the heat cycle.

 

[grizz55chev]

All chainsaw milled wood. The beams are red fir, the deck and seats are cedar, the steps are black oak.

 

[rarefish383]

This week end was spring cleaning day, raking sticks, leaves, fire pit going. I got bored with no place to sit and drink a cold beer, so I made a new bench, Joe.

 

[rarefish383]

In the second pic you can see some of the fire wood stacked up. I had 3 cord stacked on the court in front of my house, and had to move it down by the fire pit out of sight. Look what I found on one piece of wood, Joe.

 

[agrams]

I milled a southern sugar maple a year or so ago, was so happy with the character in the slabs that I dug out some pieces from the firewood pile that were small trimmings from the tree, cut them in to sheets for veneers, and made a humidor trimmed in ebony from it:

 

[rarefish383]

Wow, that is really nice, Joe.

 

[KiwiBro]

Beautiful. Lots of work in that small box but a lovely piece, well crafted. Thanks for sharing.

Those are interesting, neat wee box hinges. I've not seen them before but need a dozen or so for upcoming projects. They look like some sort of quadrant box hinge. Do you have more details or images please? Thanks.

 

[agrams]

the hinges are side rail hinges. I order them from woodcrart. Here is the link. The only option for solid brass ones used to be brusso, but those were $35 a pop. The highpoint are just as good and cheaper. I do replace the solid brass screws with brass plated steel screws as the brass screws are so weak they break all the time.

Here is a table from the slabs in the tree. The slabs had more curl and less spalting, but still some crazy grain:

 

[KiwiBro]

TKs for that info. Lovely table too.

 

[Old Blue]

That's a beautiful display of grain ! !
What kind of finish is that on your table?

Old Blue

 

[Franny K]

It is really just to show the gypsy moth situation on June 1 2017. I know it was bad back around 1973, will have to wait until the turds are bigger to assess if it is worse now or then. I chose to use pressure treated for the four legs even though they are not ground contact rated. I also chose 6 feet long for weight considerations.

 

[steve easy]

milled this matai for a cocky, makes me laugh there was talk of cutting it for f/w cause it didn't look like much. So it was decided to make some benches and big table etc for outdoor use. Well I got call after I made the first bench, he'd fallen for the timber far to nice for outdoor use. Going to be a bookshelf and some cabinets for inside now. Saved another log from the f/w pile.

 

[Runknpap]

 

[Dustan250]

12x40 lean to for wood pellet storage and other junk. The MS 250 is getting tired.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Window trim for the shop. Cut and milled in the days following Matthew.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Here is an addition I put onto the back of my garage. All the posts and headers are chainsaw milled. I had to buy the rafters.

 

[Czech_Made]

Window trim for the shop. Cut and milled in the days following Matthew.

Nice lines on the trim.