I actually won something!
Wow!! I'm still kind of pinching myself. :)
I'm that guy who always enters the raffles, 50-50's and giveaways like this but never seems to win so this is great. :D
This will be my first real piece of wood and now I have the pressure of actually making something with it to show you all!! Definetly something to think about for this newbie!! :eek:
A huge thanks to Shiraz and Grizzly for donating the wood for the giveaway.
A second huge thanks to Glenn, Keith and the other mods and admins that make SMC such a great, and friendly, place to be for both the noob like me, and the experienced experts, hobbiests and professional woodworkers that post here!!
First ideas for this wood are to create a panel for a small table top of some kind to show off it's grain.
I've got the table saw, just picked up a used Dewalt lunch box planer and am on the hunt for a good deal on a jointer to be able to work with rough cut wood like this.
Now to find someone with a bandsaw near me that I can use to cut this up into pieces for a panel glue up or something.
I promise pics and details of everything I do with this gorgeous hunk of prime wood.