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Sep. 2nd, 2009 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusI raided my father's wood pile yesterday. I also obtained the 6 inch belt sander and it's bench.
Among the planks is a piece of oak. Quarter-sawn. About 1 inch thick. 24 inches wide. Six feet long. It's got a small deviation from flat down the middle, but nothing that requires excessive wood removal. I see a table top in this.
There is some cherry (surprise!), some walnut (not black), and some butternut. I also scored a couple of chunks of magnolia and a couple of pieces of osage orange. I left behind (for now) the two five inch thick chunks of the walnut. The walnut is marked "1977". It's well seasoned. I suspect that none of the wood planks are less than twenty years removed from being milled.
While I was up in New Jersey, I also stopped by to visit an old friend from high school. We've not been in contact for over 25 years. It was great to catch up and to compare notes. Since I graduated from high school, I've only seen four of my classmates. Jim likewise claims about the same number.
Among the planks is a piece of oak. Quarter-sawn. About 1 inch thick. 24 inches wide. Six feet long. It's got a small deviation from flat down the middle, but nothing that requires excessive wood removal. I see a table top in this.
There is some cherry (surprise!), some walnut (not black), and some butternut. I also scored a couple of chunks of magnolia and a couple of pieces of osage orange. I left behind (for now) the two five inch thick chunks of the walnut. The walnut is marked "1977". It's well seasoned. I suspect that none of the wood planks are less than twenty years removed from being milled.
While I was up in New Jersey, I also stopped by to visit an old friend from high school. We've not been in contact for over 25 years. It was great to catch up and to compare notes. Since I graduated from high school, I've only seen four of my classmates. Jim likewise claims about the same number.
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Date: 2009-09-02 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-02 01:27 pm (UTC)Note: this is not black walnut. It's some other variety of walnut, probably English walnut. It's reddish brown rather than purplish brown.
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