Daninvan
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Another gorgeous day at the beach. Ocean was calm, I was up for waterskiing but no-one was offering me a ride!
We had a couple logs set up, one we thought was box elder, the other birch. After we took a cut off the 'maple' we were saying what an unusual maple with was with all that pink in it, and funny how it had hardly any staining in it even though it had been sitting on the beach for nearly a year. finally my friend said he thought it was cherry, and my lightbulb went on . Yes, it was cherry.
We got a couple of slabs out of it before it revealed what it was really like inside! That was the end of slabbing the cherry!
The birch had some nice dark colour in it, without looking badly stained. I was happy with it, although my bowl turning buddy was not keen on it. So I got all of it.
There was also, as I had predicted last week, still a piece of big alder lying around.
I cut about a 2' cookie off the end of that piece and just for fun used a froe to split out half a dozen pieces.
Then, just as we were wrapping up a city guy came by and dropped off some walnut. Unfortunately it was too small to bother milling.
I took a few 'walnut cookies' home to use as plant stands.
OK, maxed out on 10 pics, continued below . . .
We had a couple logs set up, one we thought was box elder, the other birch. After we took a cut off the 'maple' we were saying what an unusual maple with was with all that pink in it, and funny how it had hardly any staining in it even though it had been sitting on the beach for nearly a year. finally my friend said he thought it was cherry, and my lightbulb went on . Yes, it was cherry.
We got a couple of slabs out of it before it revealed what it was really like inside! That was the end of slabbing the cherry!
The birch had some nice dark colour in it, without looking badly stained. I was happy with it, although my bowl turning buddy was not keen on it. So I got all of it.
There was also, as I had predicted last week, still a piece of big alder lying around.
I cut about a 2' cookie off the end of that piece and just for fun used a froe to split out half a dozen pieces.
Then, just as we were wrapping up a city guy came by and dropped off some walnut. Unfortunately it was too small to bother milling.
I took a few 'walnut cookies' home to use as plant stands.
OK, maxed out on 10 pics, continued below . . .