live edge slab display

[xlogger]

Kiln dried and sterilized.

X2....the only way to fly!
Xlogger...great display! But the concern is selling slabs in a timely manner...if you don't, those KD slabs will take on moisture in a non controlled environment, and bow due to their own weight, especially with other slabs against them. They are encouraged to do so when MC changes. I have used a similar system, but in a somewhat controlled environment...and only one slab per space, to minimize these risks. Cuts down on space, bid time, but warped or twisted slabs speak for themselves. It's a real challenge, I'm fighting it with ya!!!

The pic is the day I was moving them around, most of the double stack ones where waiting on me to finish the other side of the shed. But at times I do double stack them when I have several that just comes out of kiln. I do not kiln dry the cedar slabs. When I double stack them I try to put a smaller one in front. As far as a controlled environment I not planning on anything like that just to costly and at my age I'm not building anymore building.

[Den Socling]

Just for the heck of it, yesterday I contacted 5 companies that cut slabs. These were the first 5 of a Google search. Two said their slabs were kiln dried. One said their slabs were kiln dried to 15% and that they got hot enough to kill bugs but they couldn't guarantee that the slabs weren't reinfected! Two had no reply.

[Peter Drouin]

At the Fair I guy had some set up, All KD



  

  

  

  

  

 
The rack for the slabs looks good. ;D

I did not like the way they keeped the thing flat.


 
Maybe a better way, I don't know. I do think the wood is over price.

[WDH]

Me too given that most of what I see is pine, Pine Man. 

[thecfarm]

That is about all we have here,Pecan Man.  ;D
Most of my hardwood don't get no more than 2 feet across. And by that I mean out of all my hardwood only a few will get that big. The red oak might get some size,but I have to wait a couple hundred years.  :D  I can grow white pine here easy,three feet across in about 70-80 years.  :D
There is a post about beech. I had some big ones with them. But by the time you got rid of the hollow heart,I am down to a tree that is no more than a foot and half across. And there again only a few too. Rock maple will get some size to them,but I have very few on my land.

[thecfarm]

Gotta watch them people from away.  ;D  The ones from NH are the bad ones.  :D  They put homegrown on it and think it has some special powers to it.  :D They come to Maine and sell thier wares.  ;D

[Den Socling]

The design of that rack is good but I would have built it out of 1.5" square steel tube. It looks like it's ready to fall.

[AlaskaLes]

Den, I was thinking the same thing...it looks like it was built to store 1" boards...not 3" slabs.

[Okrafarmer]

Gotta watch them people from away.  ;D  The ones from NH are the bad ones.  :D  They put homegrown on it and think it has some special powers to it.  :D They come to Maine and sell thier wares.  ;D

         
Flatlanders!!!!!!!!!

[Peter Drouin]

This was different.


  

 
Don't drop your beer on the table. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Okrafarmer]

Well if they sell that stuff right next to the fur coat store, the people who drop $6,000 and up for a fur coat will also buy those things too, and feel like they got a great deal. Doesn't figure. . . .

[Den Socling]

I have a friend who does live edge furniture. http://woodrichpa.com/ He  has a whole room of stumps that they debark and sand. A lot of hand sanding at that company. The stumps make some fantastic table bases.

[Okrafarmer]

I have a friend who does live edge furniture. http://woodrichpa.com/ He  has a whole room of stumps that they debark and sand. A lot of hand sanding at that company. The stumps make some fantastic table bases.

Yes, they are beautiful, Den, it's just that some of the prices this guy in the pictures was evidently asking made my eyebrows shoot up. However, if the market bears his prices, I'm in the wrong business.  ;D

[Den Socling]

I don't see how pine slabs could be worth what he's asking. I'm sitting at an oak bar I made about 33 years ago. Yesterday, a couple friends were here watching football and we got to talking about how many years we have set around this bar. That wouldn't happen with a piece of pine. The public is very ignorant.

[Okrafarmer]

I don't see how pine slabs could be worth what he's asking. I'm sitting at an oak bar I made about 33 years ago. Yesterday, a couple friends were here watching football and we got to talking about how many years we have set around this bar. That wouldn't happen with a piece of pine. The public is very ignorant.

I agree, although it is true that there is little or no oak to mill in any part of Alaska. Birch is their standard hardwood up there. . . .

[Kbeitz]

I have a friend who does live edge furniture. http://woodrichpa.com/ He  has a whole room of stumps that they debark and sand. A lot of hand sanding at that company. The stumps make some fantastic table bases.

I use flap wheels. Makes the sanding easy.

[Den Socling]

He may also. Sounds like a good idea with stumps. I've seen only tops being sanded. There they want to keep all of the original contours so they sand by hand.

[Okrafarmer]

When I was in China I saw some really beautiful stump tables. I think they harvested stumps that grew either on a rock surface, or hard clay. All the roots spread out flat as a result, as the tree grew. Cut the stump off, intricately excavate all the little tiny rootlets, carefully remove the stump, and you have a lace-like table. They took off the little itty bitty hairy roots, but left ones down to at least half an inch diameter, maybe smaller. They painstakingly debarked the whole thing. I think $200 could have bought it, if you could have gotten it home. . . . . The maker probably spent months on it.