Customer's projects pictures thread

fluidpowerpro · December 16, 2021, 11:32:00 PM

Recently had someone ask me to cut some Red Oak blocks he could use as anvil bases. I was happy when he sent me pictures of the finished product. I love anvils...

Walnut Beast · December 16, 2021, 11:54:42 PM

That looks Awesome 💪

kelLOGg · December 17, 2021, 06:37:25 AM

Customer/neighbor rebuilt his deck with an RO tree cut on his property and milled on my mill. I was leery about oak and steel making contact but it was his choice. It was finished with Eco Wood finish and the workmanship is excellent.

caveman · February 11, 2022, 10:21:14 PM

We have been at the Florida State Fair the past couple of days with our students and their market hogs. My uncle and his former assistant principal have become accomplished woodworkers in their retirement. My uncle's former assistant principal (uncle was the high school principal) was my 9th grade civics teacher, football and wrestling coach when I was in junior high. John and I have given them quite a bit of wood and sold them a little over the years.

Today, while at the fair, I went down to see my former coach as he was doing a turning demonstration. He had a few bowls that he turned on display. Most of them were from wood we sawed; Pecan, sweetgum, sycamore and maybe a few more species.

As a sidenote, when I was 14, I dropped weight to wrestle 165 and outweighed my coach. Sometimes he would wrestle me in practice. I was strong for a kid but did not have the technique required to be an elite wrestler. I'll tell you that this guy was a formidable opponent. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting with them and seeing them showcase their talents. My uncle was doing a demonstration on making bandsaw boxes.

Magicman · February 11, 2022, 10:56:18 PM

Here is one being built with framing lumber that Luke and I sawed. I will be back sawing the rest of the 1X12's for the B&B siding Friday.

Hackeldam Wood Products · February 13, 2022, 10:42:29 AM

Quote from: Magicman on February 11, 2022, 10:56:18 PM

Here is one being built with framing lumber that Luke and I sawed. I will be back sawing the rest of the 1X12's for the B&B siding Friday.

Nice to see your hard work turn into something that will last many lifetimes.

Magicman · February 13, 2022, 02:55:37 PM

Here are links to sawing some of this framing lumber: LINK and LINK

The cabin is being built over the concrete slab that the lumber is stacked on shown in Reply #1070.

Machinebuilder · February 27, 2022, 08:44:44 AM

I had a friend stop by to get a board for a house his son owns.

I had just cut this slab off and just gotten it on my stack to dry.

He really liked it, after seeing the picture of it installed it really looks good, I hate to think what it will do as it dries.

Nomad · February 28, 2022, 11:12:37 AM

Very pretty, but straight off the saw? Did he put a finish on it? I don't think he's gonna like what happens next.

Machinebuilder · February 28, 2022, 01:34:59 PM

I warned him that it will shink/warp/split and he took it.

I was told there are only 2 screws holding it in place.

doc henderson · February 28, 2022, 01:48:10 PM

that is good. if it was really fastened down well, he might find his garage door getting in a bind when he tries to open and close it. :D :D :D

alanh · March 01, 2022, 01:01:33 PM

I had a guy looking for a mantle, I had a 6" thick walnut slab that I was planning to cut in half, he wanted it, asked how long it would take to dry, I replied I cut it a year ago so probably another 5... he took it, saying he would secure it real good to the stone so it wouldn`t move...I advised against. He sent a picture a while back of it twisted with the rocks it pulled out of the fireplace still attached.

caveman · March 06, 2022, 09:16:15 PM

A fellow I've known for quite some time stopped in a month or so ago wanting a live edged slab to put on top of a Singer Sewing Machine base. He ended up purchasing an 8' pine slab from us. We were able to run it through the planer and cut it to his specifications. He sent me a picture of it a few days ago. Unfortunately, he has pancreatic cancer, and his wife also has a terminal disease and is worse off than he is currently. They are living their lives and keep getting up and pushing forward, which I find commendable.

He insisted that the knot be on the desktop.

D6c · March 10, 2022, 11:31:53 AM

This is a Burr Oak slab I sold to a young couple who are remodeling a house. Turned out really nice!

metalspinner · March 10, 2022, 07:45:09 PM

8) Beautiful!

When I was a young kid, 7-8 maybe? Dad made himself a bar like that from pecky cypress. He also made a full-size pool table from the same cypress.
This was all part of a remodel of his "workshop" into a gameroom. Today we would call it a man-cave, I guess.

caveman · March 19, 2022, 09:17:58 PM

John and I were brought a large live oak log over a year ago to saw a 7"x14"x8' square beam, free of heart/juvenile wood to be used as a mantle for a high dollar house being built by a local contractor on a local lake as his own residence. We chainsawed off one side in order to make it a bit more manageable. The guy just wanted the mantle and one slab. We sawed the mantle and eight or nine slabs out of the log. When the customer came to pick up the mantle, he saw the slabs and decided that he wanted those too. We did not blame him, but we were hoping to end up with them as their color was the dark, chocolate brown.

Anyway, he got one of his friends who, coincidentally is a former student/friend of mine (the young man who built the cypress gun room) to build his dining room table out of the live oak slabs that were surplus after sawing his mantle out of the log.

WDH · March 19, 2022, 09:45:10 PM

That is a fine table.

Nomad · March 20, 2022, 05:00:04 AM

Very nice workmanship, but it's going to take 3 men and a strong boy to move that table around.

caveman · March 20, 2022, 07:39:55 AM

Quote from: Nomad on March 20, 2022, 05:00:04 AM
Very nice workmanship, but it's going to take 3 men and a strong boy to move that table around.

No kidding. John and I touched every slab out of that log several times. We loaded them into a trailer with sides by hand. Unloaded them by hand when he brought the slabs back to be dried in the kiln. Hand stacked them into the kiln due to them not fitting our pallets and then loading them back into the same trailer with high sides. We also got an opportunity to move them a time or two the day we sawed the log. Even after coming out of the kiln, those live oak chunks remain heavy. That is another thing I really like about cypress. After it is dry, it makes a body feel strong.

WDH · March 20, 2022, 08:36:57 AM

But your body loses some principle, not just interest when you handle those heavy slabs. I have gotten pretty good at handling the big wide heavy ones. One reason I am not interested in sawing any over 10 feet long. Call Jake.

Brad_bb · March 20, 2022, 11:51:42 PM

Nice table. I like the base design especially.

longtime lurker · March 31, 2022, 08:57:47 AM

The builders brief was for a decking timber that would have an extended service life despite being fully weather exposed in the wet tropics region. I can think of maybe a dozen species world wide that can do that, though I'm sure there's others I don't know of.

The bling was just a bonus.

We normally save this for dance floors because of its exceptionally high resistance to indentation and ability to take a polish (as well as the wow factor when we start hand selecting boards), but being one of the worlds most naturally decay resistant timbers it was a natural for the job.