What's everybody's favorite wood to mill?

[300zx_tt]

So as the title states, whats everybody's favorite wood to mill? Just curious to see what everyone else prefers... I personally like white oak and maple. I just like the colors and figuring most of the slabs I mill have. Makes for some good looking stuff! What do you all like to mill the best?

 

[Brian72]

Walnut. Such a beautiful wood and smells great too! Red oak really looks great too.

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[BlackCoffin]

Only had the opportunity to mill a few, plum and maple are the most rewarding to open up. Some old alder isn’t too far behind.

Maple


Plum


Alder

 

[Matt Dalman]

Awe man they're all so nice, but I gotta say I really enjoy Ash. Some wild color too, nice grain, and a great live edge! But of course the walnut is hands down gorgeous.

Image is from a top cut off ash turned into a coat rack by my wife! Couldn't find any images of a rough cut piece tonight

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[Brian72]

Awe man they're all so nice, but I gotta say I really enjoy Ash. Some wild color too, nice grain, and a great live edge! But of course the walnut is hands down gorgeous.

Image is from a top cut off ash turned into a coat rack by my wife! Couldn't find any images of a rough cut piece tonight

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I agree. Every log is just so unique. Our Ash here in PA is just about wiped out from the emerald ash beetle so we run a bunch at my buddy's mill. Really is a sad sight. I'm surprised more effort isn't being made to harvest and use what's standing.

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[Brian72]

Box Elder is really nice with the pink in the grain too. I made some recipe boxes for my girlfriend and her sisters last year and they loved them.

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[Brian72]

Catalpa has a really unique grain and the more limbs and knots, the more wild the grain.

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[rarefish383]

45 degree wood, mill just sliiiides right through, Joe.

 

[grizz55chev]

Live edge incense cedar, chainsaw milled. The counter top and bar top are all from the same log, try and find the joint between the 2 pieces that make up the counter top. This project was 4 years ago and it's holding up well.

 

[300zx_tt]

White oak I milled on a rainy Saturday, love this stuff, and it smells amazing.

 

[JRoland]

So far I have only milled a couple logs.
California black oak (Quercus kelloggii), Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), and Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana).
The Sugar pine is my favorite so far.

 

[ML12]

My favourite has to be Western Red Cedar. It smells so good when you mill it. Its soft as anything though so anything you build with it has to be protected. Birch and big leaf maple are also favourites.



I know this isn't a milling photo, but we did mill this log with the CSM after bucking off the flare.

 

[rarefish383]

I like milling Oak because I love the smell of fresh cut Oak. I milled a Dawn Redwood a year or two back, that was the most fun I ever had milling. Got 20 some 10/4 boards out of 3 logs and the saw never showed a sign of getting dull, till I hit a nail in the last cut. I guess that's better than hitting it in the first cut. The Redwood was so soft I had a hard time keeping up with the mill going down hill, Joe.

 

[BobL]

I love em all.

 

[300zx_tt]

The rest of that white oak log I finished up milling today.