Lets see your Woodworking Skills

[dfkrug]

Some of my fir slabs I cut and finished for a local microbrewery tasting room.
Picked up last week. I hope to see them installed soon.

They came out nice, with "live edge" on one side, chamfered edges, and some
saw marks from the chainsaw mill.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Looks good. What type of chainsaw mill do you have?

 

[dfkrug]

Looks good. What type of chainsaw mill do you have?

Thx. Here's a photo of the guy who cut the above pieces. He did the cuts at my place, and gave me
the wood in exchange for 2 trailer loads of logs. I had to skid and load them.

His is an Alaskan Mill brand, and the saw is a Stihl MS880 120cc unit with 6-foot bar. The bar
was a bit too long for this job.

I have been building a bandsaw mill, but it has not seen much progress lately, and is maybe 10% done.

 

[robbyr]

Need some 2016 contributions.
Here's mine.

 

[robbyr]

Somehow doubled the six photos and not sure why some are sideways.

 

[EddieWalker]

Some of my fir slabs I cut and finished for a local microbrewery tasting room.
Picked up last week. I hope to see them installed soon.

They came out nice, with "live edge" on one side, chamfered edges, and some
saw marks from the chainsaw mill.

I love the look of a slab table with a live edge. Is there any trick to stop them from cracking after you cut them?

 

[dfkrug]

Is there any trick to stop them from cracking after you cut them?

I have experimented with lots of tricks. The main thing to do is slab up the logs and have them dry in
a somewhat controlled manner. The worst thing you can do is to leave them as large thick pieces (>6"), which
allows the outer parts to build up tension stresses as it dries. If you can make the inner part dry faster
than the outer part, then maybe you can reduce the checking. Maybe.

Chainsaw millers regularly slap some goop on the ends of their slabs. It is expensive stuff. I suggest
using melted wax from a candle. Again, outer drying that causes checking is much more of a problem
if you leave the logs in large pieces with removed bark.

 

[dfkrug]

Here is my anvil block, made from a log that was 2 years drying. I epoxied it all around, and
used plastic feet, since it sits outside. Sadly, the checking has opened up quite a bit. Douglas fir.

This one was free-hand cut with a chainsaw, then planed.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Checking of a large slab/timber is pretty much inevitable. On a table slab, bowties are often inlaied after a crack has developed to stop it from further movement. The wood is going to do what it wants

 

[k0ua]

Need some 2016 contributions.
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So lots of steam and a fancy jig? (to get that oak bent)