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  1. 08-02-2016, 3:39 PM #1
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    Playing with a $1 walnut slab

    Ok, yard sale stuff is all cleaned and put away. All but two items.
    Got one of them down to the bench today, as I wanted to joint one edge. Needed that to base the rest of the cuts off of...
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    Jointer is a Stanley No.7c, T-9. Slab is just over 50" long, and about 1-1/8" thick. Almost as long as my bench..
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    The wide end is about 16", narrow (?) end is 12" It has a bit of a cup to it..
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    Sooo, the plan is to rip the slab down to something I can work on, maybe then glue it back into a top of some sort....Slab makes my Millers Falls No.11 look downright tiny..
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    There was some decent enough shavings coming out of it, though...
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    IF and when I get this slab down, I have the other plank to start on. Might need to cut it down a bit, as it is 7' long, and 8/4"+ thick...
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    It has a lot of interesting grain to it...maybe use it for leg stock?
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    Not sure IF I will try to resaw it down a bit..
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    As it is a bit on the thick side. I doubt if I could get turning blanks out of it, a bit too swirly for that....

    Paid a dollar each for these boards, trying to find a use for them...
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  3. 08-02-2016, 4:04 PM #2
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    Oh, by the way, I paid $1 each for these boards...

    Lucky dawg!
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    Wow, I can't think of a better way to spend a dollar. Nice find.
    Bumbling forward into the unknown.
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    Maybe doing quite a bit of cutting on those two slabs.....have a "blank canvass " right now......I also have a supply of Pine, for "secondary wood" items......Single Brain Cell Sketch Up is now at work, trying to "see what is in the wood" and work out a plan to use....
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    Well...for the next week or so, all I am allowed to do is......nothing. No driving, no stairs, no heavy lifting, no shoptime. Just had a Heart Cath done yesterday, and just got home this afternoon. Got an "ALL CLEAR" for the Cardio Doc, so there wasn't any blockages to do. Of course, you all know where they stick that wire thingy in through.....

    Had someone say that slab could be used to make handles for hand saws.....
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    Very nice find, and you can't beat the price. Saw handles would be a great way to use that. You could make a whole set and have Bontz make you some plates.
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    Not sure how to make blanks for saw handles that others would want to use. Slab was flat sawn, so there are a few "Cathedrals" in the grain.

    There is also rear handles on handplanes that came be cobbled out. Then there is the 8/4 x 7' long chunk to mill down..
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    Lots of figure, and quite thick. Top, middle and bottom of the slab.....also $1.
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    Trying to figure out what to do with this slab...
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    I think it would make a fine sitting bench.
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    Ok, I have the slab cut down.....four pieces I can work with, and two with the live edge going on.

    The four pieces I can work with are now ~25" long, two are 6" wide, the other two are around 4" wide......
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    Meh. Gave one a clean up with a Stanley #5-1/2 jack plane...
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    Until both faces were close, then smoothed them out with a #4

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    Smooth and ready to joint the edges...
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    Again, using the 5-1/2. MKI Eye ball says it is straight, square suggests it is square to the faces. After jointing both edges, I think it MIGHT be S4S. Used the same square, laid out a line done the middle...

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    This was after the resaw on the bandsaw. Which I soon discovered had a less than sharp blade......yep, smoke fill the shop. Smoke? It did NOT smell like Walnut, either.....hmmm..
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    Not sure what wood this is....yet. WAS supposed to be Walnut, now I'm not so sure
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    Book matched, 1/2" thick panel. Will go ahead and work the next one down as well. Stuff looking more like Cherry? Will get a better look at the colour, after I put something on it......DNA maybe.

    So far, I have used the #7c on the intact slab, since then, it has been just two planes. The Stanley #5-1/2, T-17, and a Stanley #4, T-13. Will see how long that lasts....May set aside a chunk for a plane's rear handle, as well. have one plane that needs a new rear handle..

    Single Brain Cell Sketch Up is calling for a box to be cobbled together out of my $2 yard sale stash, should be an interesting one......Walnut? Cherry?
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    Right now, the plan is to do the other narrow board the same way. Thinking a top and a bottom for a box. Or two. The wider two boards......will get turned into the sides of the boxes. Then there is that 7' long, by 8/4 thing on the back porch to mill into ......something. I have saved the live edged sap wood, maybe make some sort of trim pieces out of them?

    In the "Old Days" I'd have done all the boards in about a day, or two........now a days, one at a time is plenty to do. Getting old is not for the weak.....
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    Taking a break for awhile. Seems there is a Brown Bat doing Air Patrols in my shop......shop in IN the basement of the house, to boot.

    Almost have those two pieces all smmoothed out, until the Bat flying by at hat level ended the session. Not sure HOW the critter got down there, either.

    Picked a pair of handsaws today....one will need a new handle.......hmmm. Could be....
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    Ok, second board has been resawn......yep, seems that slab was Cherry, after all. I had left one freshly planed slice sit a few days.....lights were bright enough to change the colours to a more Cherry flavour...might be able to do something with that...
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    Pictures, or it didn't happen....
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    Two pairs. Trying for book matched panels.
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    What I was told was Walnut, turns out to be Cherry. This is about half of the $1 slab, still have two more boards to process.....and those two are 6" wide. Might make some use of these...
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    For $1 per board you did very well!!!!
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    New bandsaw blade did not play very nice tonight..
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    Wavy, and tilted.....rather than ruin the other 6" wide plank
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    Still wavy, but I can resaw these a little bit better than the wide ones.
    Laid out two decent boards, for the sides of a box
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    I figure I can get all four sides out of these two....now, about the bottom and top?
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    Glue up into a panel, then cut in two for the top and bottom...
    Laid out a few toys..
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    Plan right now is to do finger joints. These should do the trick. I can dig out the Stanley #45 to make grooves for the bottom to sit in. Might even make a rebate or two with it, as well.
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    Had an old piece of Cherry, been floating around in the shop for a few years, maybe I can find a use for it, this time around?

    As for the wave effect boards...
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    Sitting there by itself, is the scrub plane. Might be able to scrub the waves down flat?
    Well it is a start, anyway....Cherry @ $.20 a bf? Would like to find a few more such planks....
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