Sweet Gum milling

[BlackCoffin]

Took my brothers tree down a few weeks back and have been chipping away and milling it into live edge boards and finished it off today with a fireplace mantle on the bottom section. Very rare in our neck of the woods and turned out great.

 

[rarefish383]

That's going to be a pretty mantle. My Dad said when he was a kid, the little wooden spoons, that came with a card board cup of ice cream were made out of Gum?

 

[Brent Nowell]

Took my brothers tree down a few weeks back and have been chipping away and milling it into live edge boards and finished it off today with a fireplace mantle on the bottom section. Very rare in our neck of the woods and turned out great.
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That sir is one hell of an edger.
Do you find the shavings fly back up and into the rollers path, throwing out the squarness of your cut?

 

[BlackCoffin]

Haha thank you! I made it with parts from work so other than time it cost me nothing. All stainless and the weight helps with stability. They do fly in front of it and pile up. I only have to back off and clear then 3-4 times per cut so really not too bad. The rollers make it glide along very nicely too.