Tom Baugues
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A friend of mine had told me that I could have this wood if I came and cut it up and hauled it away. I looked at it about a month ago and really thought it looked like a rotted out tree stump. Well now that I have my lathe all set up and a few new tools bought I'm ready to give larger turnings a try. I didn't have any wood to "play" with so I had the day off work today and thought I would go over to my friends house and at least cut into this log...just to confirm that it was indeed rotten. Well, it was not rotten at all. In fact it is very beautiful Walnut. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to get it cut up into smaller chunks. I say smaller but some of them are still HUGE. My friend came home about the time I was done and he and his boys helped me load them into my truck. Some of this stuff is 20 inches across. I cut all this with my 16 inch Craftsman chainsaw. I tried to cut some of them into blanks but my chain saw did not like cutting with the grain like that and it became very difficult to cut. Almost impossible. I even put a brand new chain on my saw. Anyway...now I have lots of questions. How does one deal with this much wood at one time? There is no way I can rough out all this on the lathe. I will have to store most all this outside somewhere. Should I still cut it all up to get rid of all the piths? Then seal just the ends with ancorseal? Will it be ok outside with just a tarp over it? I do want to cut up a few blanks to work with on the lathe in the coming few weeks. I'm new at all this so helpful information is appreciated. I just received my DVD from Bill Grumbine today so I look forward to learning all about this large turning.
Tom
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