Watcha Makin'?

[firefighter ontheside]

I have some nice elm for sale.  It is very pretty as you point out.  There has not been one person even express an interest.  I guess people are like elm...what is that...I've never seen it at Lowes...it must not be any good.  I'll have to come up with a project for it for myself.

[WDH]

The wavy bands of latewood pores really create beautiful grain in the sawn lumber.  It is unique and gives elm this distinctive look.  It is easy to recognize on a flatsawn board once you know what it looks like, but it is much easier to see on the endgrain. The wavy bands of latewood pores are easy to see even without magnification.  Look at the first few endgrain pics on this link to see these wavy bands. 

American elm

[tule peak timber]

Made a color sample yesterday for a customer this morning. Brown....

 

[Crusarius]

Is that one still very rough or is the grain just that pronounced it looks like it has depth?

[tule peak timber]

It is a box beam sample worked with kutzall bits, wire wheel, Arbortech bits, and nylox. Sealed , sanded , colored, sanded, second color applied, skip sanded, and rubbed with hardwax oil.
 It is rough looking but very smooth for ease in dusting. Rough sawn pine referenced from the inside for a tight joint. The outside is anything but flat.

[aigheadish]

WDH- the site you linked to is pretty amazing!

[Crusarius]

I may have to try messing around with something like that. I like the rough look with smooth feel and easy clean.

[firefighter ontheside]

I did some assembly on the to be blue bookcase.  It has a menagerie of wood that I had laying around.  That's the way it is when its for my house.  It will still look nice, but its good to use up some stuff I have laying around.  


 

 

[WDH]

WDH- the site you linked to is pretty amazing!

If you are interested in wood ID, it is the best site on the web for excellent pictures and descriptions.  The detail is very good and is what you need to be able to see the pore structure, etc of the various woods.  It is very challenging most times when someone here posts a pic of wood they want identified and the pic is taken from 14.62 feet and the end grain was cut with a chainsaw with a chain that has not been sharpened for 46.93 years :D.

[doc henderson]

Fire fighter.  Plane a nice piece of elm and put a finish on it.  even just oil.  describe it as a "domestic exotic hardwood".  A local couple on vacation somewhere almost paid thousands for a table.  and they had to ask 3 times to find out that the very exciting wood grained table was made out of elm.

[doc henderson]

that wood was treated like junk and sat uncovered in a stickered stack for years on the driveway.  no rot and planed nice.  some loss of thickness due to some edge wave.  color and density still nice.  

[aigheadish]

I spent some time yesterday looking around that site, WDH, and now have it bookmarked, the only better thing I could see/want it having were bark and leaf pictures too. Some of that wood is amazing though, I can't imagine I'd ever get my hands on a lot of it and I'd probably be too scared to try anything with it if I had it. 

[WDH]

One of the best sites for bark and leaf pics is here:

https://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/factsheets.cfm

[firefighter ontheside]

I sprayed polycrylic on the bookcase yesterday and installed it in the bedroom this morning.  Had the store color the poly for me.  We just slowly added some blue and then a little black until the color smeared on a sample piece seemed right.  Spraying the colored poly was a little troublesome, especially on the wide area of the back of the case.  With overlapping sprays I would get light and dark areas.  It was fine for my house, but I wouldn't be happy for a customer project.  If it would stay wet for long enough I could blend it ok with a brush, but that wasn't happening yesterday.  It was 95 deg.  Anyway I'm happy with the color and how it looks in the room.


 

[doc henderson]

when I spray I like to run off the end of a piece.  it can be tough in small tight spots.  I know the shelves come out, but it is easy to accumulate in the corners etc.  it looks great.  that is why I did a bush on, wipe off on my wife's shoe shelf.

[Old Greenhorn]

This may sound like a cheap shot, but it's not. For something planned as 'blue', that looks awfully green. It looks great between the blue and wood wall, but it looks kinda green. 
 Nicely done though and an interesting point about overlapping spray passes. I wouldn't have thought of that ahead of time.

[firefighter ontheside]

Might look a little green in the photo due to lighting.  

[doc henderson]

If you start adding stain or color to the finish you are asking for trouble.  i never liked the stain and sealer all in one.  sanding sealer for grain.  stain for color then surface finish for protection.  just remember his handle is "old GREEN horn"  for goodness sake.  and if he was a KSU fan, he would wear brown on game day.   8) 8) 8)

[WV Sawmiller]

   As a follow up to my picture display rack here is it in use yesterday and today at the Lumberjack Festival at Twin Falls State Park near Saulsville WV.


As far as sales the event was largely a bust with 2- 55 daily mile rounds (220 miles for clarity). Rain today helped drive off what should have been a bigger crowd than yesterday. Lots of people looked at the pictures but I only sold $49 worth of my wife's photos and they were all the small ones and no takers for the big ones. I sold a couple of benches, a planter, a couple of crates and an engraved RO slab. My big sale today was going to take his back to a remote cabin in the UP.

   The rack worked pretty good but I think I will add another "shelf" on top and build a wide shelf on the bottom to display the bigger pictures next time I do something like this.

[tule peak timber]

A simple bar top today from rotten cedar.

 

 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Do I spy a Fish Camp in that second photo?

[Old Greenhorn]

I saw the fish camp too as well as the update in the other thread. Man that thing is gonna be like a vacation condo/spa!

 Rob you are the king of the finishes. If I ever pulled one off that looked like that I believe I would celebrate excessively all night!

[tule peak timber]

This a seal coat of bar top epoxy, so a couple of more coats and UV protection to go yet. A price point project from junk wood. If I could get a customer for every piece of junk wood here on site, I think I would need to be 2-300 years old.
I stopped throwing away stuff years ago and just stack it on the acreage and sure enough someone comes along and claim some of it as their treasure.
As far as the fish camp; the real challenge is convincing my wife and granddaughter to live within the 8' pick up truck bed. Without bloodshed. ;D

[Nebraska]

Exterior poly?  UV protection how so? @tule peak timber 

[tule peak timber]

We are doing the bottom with table top epoxy today so as to "balance" the finish schedule and totally seal the piece up. The UV top coat will be Awlcraft 2000 clear. A couple of other tables in the finish room were sprayed this morning with the same top coat and should be ready for buff out this coming week. I like to bunch the projects for spraying at the same time because of the prep and mess 
 Meanwhile I'm whacking out some rustic storm shutters for a customer.The UV topcoat on the shudders will be GF Exterior 450.