Some nice Black Walnut slabs

[Shawn Curry]

My BIL had a massive 4' diameter Black Walnut cut down in his yard earlier this year. I've been cutting up the firewood for them in my free time and hauling saw logs back to my house. I finally got the chance to do a little bit of milling. This log was one of the branches.



I had to take 2 2" slabs off of it before my dad could even lift it with the FEL. I also had to make a freehand cut along one edge so I could fit my 24" mill around it. After I got it home, I cleaned and squared up the freehand edge. I also tried to remove the heart of the log and most of the lightning damage in the first slab.

 

[Shawn Curry]

Here are the rest of the slabs. Still have a little more milling to do.

 

[Brushpile]

You could sure make a couple fine banjo necks outta one of those slabs.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Nice looking boards and nice straight cuts.
I like your firewood pile in the background too.
John

 

[Runknpap]

Looks good.

 

[john taliaferro]

Nice looking boards and nice straight cuts.
I like your firewood pile in the background too.
John

I was drooling over the FEL

 

[huskyhank]

Nice, nice, nice!
Thanks for posting this.

 

[Joel D'Angelo]

Coming from a cabinetmaker watch limb wood use. It tends to move more when drying unpredictably than a nice straight trunk section.

 

[Shawn Curry]

Coming from a cabinetmaker watch limb wood use. It tends to move more when drying unpredictably than a nice straight trunk section.

Yeah, I am a little worried about them cracking or twisting too much at the crotch end especially. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of straight stuff to be had in this tree - it was a massive yardbird - 4' at the stump. I've got these ones stickered in my garage. There's going to be a lot of slabs like these, hopefully a few of them dry out nicely.

 

[Dave Boyt]

Real eye candy... until I got to the photo of the main stem. That's going to be real interesting to mill. Should be worth it, though. Thanks for sharing.

 

[IanB22]

Nice slabs....keep it up!

 

[Old Blue]

I would love to see what the inside of that stem looks like. Please come back and share some more when you slice that baby up!

Old Blue
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[BigOakAdot]

Looks great. I really like the way the crotch turned out. Are you milling with that 261?

 

[Shawn Curry]

Looks great. I really like the way the crotch turned out. Are you milling with that 261?

Thanks! Haha - no I was just using it that day and put it there for size reference. It's ported, but I'm not sure if it would put enough oil on the bar... I used the 661 that you can see in a couple of the pics.

I would love to see what the inside of that stem looks like. Please come back and share some more when you slice that baby up!

Sure thing! I'm pretty excited about it too. Just gotta get my hands on an 090...

 

[Bryce c tyrrell]

Beautiful coloring.

 

[pwoller]

Walnut dries really nice. You'll get a ton of nice slabs when its all said and done.

 

[Weltall]

Perfect rifle stock material. Very nice!

 

[czar800]

Looks like a lot of fun! You got really nice slabs.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Perfect rifle stock material. Very nice!

"Perfect" rifle stock blanks are AT LEAST 2-1/2" thick, 2-3/4" is even better... Zero defects, the proper denseness and the grain running in the RIGHT direction in the right places... MUCH harder than you may think...

Lower grade rifle stocks are much easier...

SR

 

[amberg]

Wow! that is a nice one, keep up the good work.