Saep Teews S'mot

[Gordon]

Now thats sittin in style Jeff. From what I had pictured was a chainsawed, single seat. What you have pictured there is a major party seat.

So you did make out better than Charlie----you got some nice sawn pieces from it as well. Nice to have a truck for travelin.

Has your blood started to thicken back up yet now that your back in the north country?

Gordon

[Jeff]

     This pea thing has been great, but I gotta add something to the plate.  ;) The short time I spent with Tom and his mill that day earned me a lot more then peas.

     I learned to look at wood in a whole new way that day. This primaddona know it all cause I done it for so long sawyer learned to look at a crooked log and see a beautiful arcing bench.  I learned that a big old rotten knot hole can be a work of art on your wall.  I learned that you can stop after sawing a board or two and pick up some sawdust from the cedar to tie in a hanky and put in your underwear drawer to make it smell good. (Did you hear that Kevin?).  I learned that those ugly pieces of firewood that were tossed aside were actually the legs for my new bench, and the chips that flew off them as I prepared them would be the wedges, and in fact the "glue" that would hold them in.

I learned that sawing 30,000 feet of lumber in 1 day can pale to the rewards from spending the day sawing a couple logs with someone that can say "Lookey here" and make you see.

That can of peas my friends is a badge. Charlie and I are dang lucky to have earned it.

[Gordon]

Classic post Jeff


There is alot more to wood than production----that is why we all like it so much. It can be related to woods walking. Amen to the can o peas.


Boy Jeff when you bring something to the table you don't mess around do ya.

Gordon

[Ron Wenrich]

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I just sawed a whack of sassafras.  It saws great, and even smells better.  Makes beautiful cabinets.  We put it on sticks instead of the pallet pile.

I was in one guy's place who had catalpa for paneling.  The logs were destined to become firewood, until he picked them up.  Nice and an unusual look.

I've seen and sawn really neat wood at times.  Bird peck, mineral, unusual color, curl, etc.  But, being a commercial business, we just send it down the rolls so we can saw the next log.   :(

[Jeff]

I know the feeling. I occasionally will see something really cool. I will get out and go down and pull it off the chain and lean it against the wall so I can look at it as I go to and from my saw booth. Generally after a while it ends up back in the stack and sent on with the rest. :( :(

A few weeks a go I sawed some cotten wood that had a blue stain so bad you would have thought it had been painted with printers ink. I had never seen blue stain in cotton wood and never so deep and rich a color in any species.  After a few days against the wall drying the color faded and it was returned to the ordinary board pile. :-/

[L. Wakefield]

   That's what I had seen in tulip poplar. I did handstands trying to make it stay. Never came up with a method. :(  lw

[Don P]

You won't, oxidation and enzymes :(. Call us simple minded but we both could stand behind a planer all day and watch the colors emerge, they sure fade fast, over lunch often. We erect story poles in the corners of the log homes as we build. At the end of a week or so when we take them down there is always a tan line where they were...catches up in another week or 2.

I've even gotten blue in mahogany. I guess since its a fungus just living on the sugar in the cell cavity its not too choosey.

Jeff's bench brought one to mind I saw in one of those historic villages. It was three legged to ride on an uneven dirt floor. Always have meant to make some for down by the bonfire.