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    Ambrosia Maple logs...

    am logs.jpgend shot am lob.jpgMy neighbor teased me about 6 weeks ago...he caught me loading my truck for arts/crafts festival and asked me if I would be interested in a Ambrosia Maple tree he had just logged. The second picture was the cutoff from the end of the log he was trying to sell me. As you can see it will probably be very streaked. Obviously I was interested so he let me take the cutoff to the show (I now use it at festivals as a conversation starter). I sometimes get more interest in the end cutoff than I do in my products! Anyway, I was originally just buying the first log but he kept finding more in the patch of woods he's logging, so finally he wound up with 981 feet total. The picture of the logs on the truck don't really show it but he said every log on the truck is just as streaked as the original.

    The log yard where he took them my daughter's boyfriend (?) owns a woodmizer and will be sawing them for me.

    From here on out it's going to be a love hate relationship. I can't wait to use them someday, in the meantime I'm dreading handling all the lumber, stickering, literally sweeping off each board (removing sawdust) to keep the mold down. If I can remember I'll try to take a few pics of the boards...

    Thanks for reading,

    Robert

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    Wow, now that is a GLOAT! Wish you were close to me and I'd help you out - in exchange for material of course!

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    Hey Robert, hope things are going good for you. Care to share what the logs cost? I've had my eye on a couple of similar logs at a local sawmill.

    Perry

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    That is awesome! I wish that I had those logs. Sticker the lumber where there is very good air flow around the stack as maple is bad to gray stain (an enzymatic oxidation reaction that occurs with high humidity and stagnant air flow).

    I bet the lumber will be beautiful, and I look forward to seeing some pics.

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    All that work and waiting is going to be absolutely worth it! Wow... nice stuff!
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    Ok, so... uhm... I am jealous!

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    Dang Robert----------- sure could of used one of those logs to turn a few bowls from. Nice gloat
    ---I may be broke---but we have plenty of wood---

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny Hamsley View Post
    That is awesome! I wish that I had those logs. Sticker the lumber where there is very good air flow around the stack as maple is bad to gray stain (an enzymatic oxidation reaction that occurs with high humidity and stagnant air flow).

    I bet the lumber will be beautiful, and I look forward to seeing some pics.
    +1. I would also advise getting some end sealer onto the ends of those logs ASAP.

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    Oh you dog! How can you live with yourself? All the old moldy wood, and you're gonna try to save it?
    Can I have some. I'll buy your dinner if you'll deliver.
    Bill
    On the other hand, I still have five fingers.

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