tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39451818714362754462024-03-14T06:49:41.715-05:00Lumber Logs' blogWhere you can find the latest news from St. Louis' urban logging operation. I will focus on our hardwood lumber and turning blank inventory and other adventures in urban logging.Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-27453500754217242622020-07-01T09:54:00.001-05:002020-07-01T09:54:18.406-05:00a final wordEffective immediately the urban logging story of St. Louis will be told on Instagram via @Lumber_Logs_LLC.<br />
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It is easier to update and the thus the updates will be more frequent and timely. Thank you for reading along here but go ahead and sign up for Instagram (it's easy and free) and follow us there.<br />
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Thank you!Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-28445747350294827342019-09-25T10:29:00.000-05:002020-01-30T10:03:10.736-06:00St. Louis Magazine gives us some pressA photographer and writer from St. Louis Magazine spent the day with Joe and put together a nice summary of what Lumber Logs does in their October issue. Here is a link:<br />
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Thank you for your patience!Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-62424571583224935912019-04-26T12:50:00.001-05:002019-04-26T12:50:50.932-05:00the walnut situationOur walnut bins are empty.<br />
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We still have some nice walnut live edge slabs but if you are wanting regular rough sawn boards then we will disappoint. Walnut has been THE hot selling species for a few years now, understandably so since its look and working characteristics are unsurpassed. We have raised our price incrementally as keeping up with demand has been a challenge; this is our normal practice. It appears however that we were not aggressive enough in raising prices. I found nobody locally selling average walnut for less than $8/bf and our price for our finest boards was only $6.50. And ours has virtually no sapwood since we cut it off at the mill whereas sapwood usually fills the bins around town.<br />
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So rather than having no walnut at $6.50 we now have no walnut at $7 for an "A" board (very nice) and $8.50 for premium A+ material. It will still be a couple months or so before the air drying walnut we have will go through the kiln and be in the bins for sale. It will still be the cheapest in town and enviably nice stuff. (Have you shopped around? I have.)<br />
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Value is still our niche. But low prices without inventory isn't of much value to anybody.<br />
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For a similar reason eastern redcedar is no longer our cheapest offering. At $1.25 demand outstripped our supply of logs so we now ask $1.75 for the lowest grade (B) boards.Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-89636861878734375672019-04-17T13:08:00.002-05:002019-04-26T12:28:49.213-05:00Buckeye slabsJust out of the kiln, some wide 8/4 chunks of buckeye:<br />
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<br />Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-58096064352605848352019-02-11T15:20:00.000-06:002019-02-12T12:07:48.551-06:00Still HereDo not let the infrequent blog posts make you think that we are not still in business: we are.<br />
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This blog was originally intended to simply let you know what we are doing and what we offer. That is still the objective here and the reason posts have become less frequent is simply because we are doing and offering the same thing as we have since 2004. We haul logs for local tree cutters and see that they get to a mill instead of mulched, and we offer the finest selection of domestic hardwood lumber in the area. All of our lumber is from the Saint Louis forest exclusively, milled from trees that were cut down by others for a multitude of reasons.<br />
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The most meaningful change in the past couple of years is that we now saw our own lumber. Joe is the best sawyer we have ever had because he knows exactly what our customers want and is willing to take the extra effort to get it. Our customers have noticed the quality of the wood we offer; it is flying off the shelves as fast as we can mill it, dry it, and restock. If you work wood anywhere near Saint Louis you should stop in on our retail days (first and third Saturday of each month, 9-11 am) and see what a lumber yard run by woodworkers can be like.<br />
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I suppose I could continue posting pictures of wood as it comes off the mill but that can become a little tiresome and generate all sorts of inquiries that don't change when the wood will be ready for purchase. We cut it, air dry it, run it through the kiln to get that last 10% moisture content out, and put it in the bins in the building as fast as our one employee business allows.<br />
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I do have an idea or two for some fresh blog posts, so please check back on occasion. One topic will be crotch woods: finding and using it. The figure in wood that grows where the trunk splits into two or more branches is often highly figured and I wondered why more people do not include it in their work. Finding such wood is one reason - few yards carry any at all - but it has characteristics that make it a challenge to design and use too. I have now tackled it multiple times and will soon share my findings.Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-82658944262943918262018-02-25T12:17:00.000-06:002018-02-26T14:47:54.720-06:00goodbye solar kilnThe solar kiln has been with us since our first year on a parking lot off of Hall Street. There was no structure for sheltering lumber there so we moved to that "structure" on Brown that you can see from the back of our current location on Farlin. That is where it lived for years cranking out dry lumber for 6-8 months a year:<br />
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Since it only was effective for a portion of the year it soon became a bottleneck for getting dry wood into bins for sale. After we moved to our very own lot with better electrical arrangements we slapped a dehumidifier kiln on the front and extended the drying season to all but the coldest month or two.<br />
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The two layers of deteriorating polycarbonate that form the slanted solar roof were poor insulation for those cold months so it was better than nothing in, say, March, but it did not work as well as a dedicated dehumidifier kiln should. After 14 years and two moves it was time to replace the solar kiln completely:<br />
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We considered a sea container but for the price of an uninsulated one we found an old beer distributing reefer truck:<br />
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Our plan was to remove the insulated box and jettison the remainder of the truck. First Joe cuts off the sheet metal hanging below the floor:<br />
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That's better. Other side too and unbolt the underside. All loose and ready to be lifted off the truck frame:<br />
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Some creative strapping to the forklift and we hope it is enough to get it into the air. It is!<br />
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Here it is shoved into its new home behind our building. Those long fork extensions allow us to load the pallets from the end:<br />
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And its first load of walnut and cherry:<br />
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Just as when we allowed sawyer issues to build up a backlog of saw logs, the accumulated kiln bottleneck will take some time to relieve completely but this is an arrangement that should convert air dry to kiln dry in a week or two and catch us up. It was recently 120 degrees Fahrenheit in there on a 30 degree day.<br />
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Lightly spalted soft maple crotch, nearly 2' wide:<br />
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Look for these and more to come into the dry sale bins throughout the year.Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-50211599357633119562018-02-23T14:26:00.000-06:002018-02-23T14:28:54.470-06:00more live edge materialI found this blog draft saved from a couple years back:<br />
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Live edge slabs give any project a unique flavor. We have had a few of these slabs in the past and we are making a big push for more. We just pulled two logs' worth of cherry slabs from the kiln and we now have a large selection of natural edge material to pick from. We will be sawing more; right now we have cherry and walnut.<br />
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Here are two logs that just came back from the sawyer. These are 6 or 7 feet long and should be available next spring.<br />
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<br />Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-34873155664231635272017-12-11T14:15:00.001-06:002017-12-11T14:20:14.421-06:00Now we can saw our own!When we began operations in 2004 we chose a different path from most urban log recyclers. Rather than pick up and saw a few choice logs here and there we wanted to recycle as many as we could. This includes lots of lower grade logs and less desirable species, but darn it, that is what gets cut down so that is what should get used.<br />
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I would estimate that over 95% of the logs we pick up go straight to a local mill (after trimming and scanning at our lot) for pallet, blocking and ties. I have mentioned this before, but the remaining ~5% are the kind of logs that make woodworkers sit up and take notice so we had them sawn into boards that we dry and sell to make this whole enterprise work. We have worked with a number of different sawyers over the past 13 years, some very good, others not quite what we wanted. There were errors in communication, short cuts taken that compromised quality, and lots of time hauling logs one way and boards the other. It was time to saw our own.<br />
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It seems obvious now, but aside from the capital outlay there is considerable time to invest in running a sawmill and Joe (our only employee) hauls logs full time. No matter, we had everything else needed (more than can be said for some of the mill owners we used) to be efficient: a forklift, kiln, and some space. Here is our new Timber King 2000 ripping through a smaller walnut log:<br />
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We can get nice walnut boards from a log like that much faster than hauling it an hour away and making a second trip to pick up the boards. But the real benefit of sawing our own is getting exactly what we want from each log. Here is a good example, a big sycamore, too big for the mill (that is a 36" bar for scale):<br />
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We only want quartersawn boards from this sycamore and it takes extra time and effort to get that. Here is a maneuver you won't likely see the $X/bf sawyers taking:<br />
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So instead of 50-70% QS and the rest being rift sawn, we get close to 100% QS boards like this:</div>
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There is more to this story and this blog will be one place to see more. We have not had any trouble selling the best quality wood - it flies out of here - and we will now have more of the good stuff than ever before. It feels a lot like "what took us so long to figure this out" but whatever the excuse was, it is all better now. Well, not completely. There is a big pile of logs to be sawn. </div>
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<br />Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-43935965423888865622016-02-08T14:34:00.000-06:002018-02-23T14:24:50.385-06:00what a visit to Lumber Logs is likeMany of you already know - and maybe some of you will never know - but I want to describe the atmosphere at Lumber Logs on one of our retail Saturday mornings. Why not? Pictures of cool wood will always show up on this blog, but a building full of woodworkers enjoying themselves deserves its own post. Hopefully you will add your own thoughts in the comments.<br />
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Retailing lumber is a second job for both Joe and Tom; this is why we are only open for retail four hours per month (first and third Saturdays, 9 - 11 am). The effect of this bottleneck of opportunity is that the building fills with woodworkers of all types during those hours. This has been a fascinating study for me, as interesting as discovering sycamore or osage.<br />
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<li>Most visitors are males. Maybe 80-90% of our buyers are guys, but women and children and controlled pets are all welcome and make it all more fun. Our neighbors are an iron works, a trucking company, and a brickyard, so expect a testosterone laced industrial environment. We do not have a coffee machine, climate control, a restroom or running water. We do have a wood stove in winter and fan in the summer. I come home dirty after every visit.</li>
<li>Most people are happy to be there. I am likely not the only guy who rarely enjoys "shopping", but when the environment is a building full of my favorite material, then "shopping" becomes this experience full of imagination and hope and promise. (Maybe my wife feels the same way in a shoe store?) Finding the wood I need is easily one of my favorite woodworking steps because I haven't yet screwed anything up! Perhaps others feel this too since the building is full of happy people who share a love of this material.</li>
<li>People are understanding and patient. This strikes me as extraordinary (perhaps because I am often <i>not </i>particularly patient), but when there is a backlog of buyers waiting to have their selections scaled and priced, without exception these people show admirable flexibility. What happens next is really interesting.</li>
<li>Once somebody has met their particular need, they are free to engage others. And they do. Discussions about design, finishing, and teenage children flow naturally and without any posturing. A guy helps another with a large slab. Another shares an experience with an unfamiliar wood species. Ineptitude gets mentioned on occasion and it is always with laughter. Mistakes sound like fun; I'll have to try that. </li>
<li>Most people find what they want. If they came looking for 2000 bf of black locust for their deck, then they will go away disappointed, but for a smaller scale project we have the goods. I am especially encouraged when somebody tries a new species they have not used before. The diversity that grows around here and thus that we stock should excite any worker of wood. Our local forest is an exceptional resource. Tell us about your project and we can suggest something that may surprise you. If we do not have what you want, say so and maybe we can improve. We have been cutting thicker oak as a result of multiple requests even though drying it is a challenge. Since our entire business is composed of Joe and Tom, if you get one of our ears you can affect what we do.</li>
<li>Not once in 12 years has anyone complained about us rounding all transactions to the nearest dollar. I wonder when pennies will go out of circulation.</li>
<li>Lumber haulers come in all shapes and sizes. We are especially impressed by the driver of a two-seater convertible who buys 100 bf of wood, the old dilapidated pickup with duct tape connecting rusty panels (for sale; this could be yours!), the jaguar driver, and the 16' trailer owner who buys one board. My story of 300 bf in and on a Subaru seems to encourage those who feel challenged with bulk.</li>
<li>Not even counting the business side of the experience, I always come away energized by the people who visit. This is not my universal reaction to crowds of people, so there is something special about woodworkers that I must like. These people are genuine optimistic doers. They understand challenge, failure, success, and making something that others treasure. They usually work alone but obviously get along with others. This combination of self reliance and sociability in a welcoming environment must be the formula for happiness, or at least temporary joy. At least, it seems to work that way. There is a natural and unforced woodworker's scene in St. Louis. Come experience it.</li>
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<br />Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-89247204016240955902015-06-23T15:29:00.000-05:002015-06-23T15:32:59.106-05:00Pictures from the yardHere are some photos of lumber we have had come in from our sawyers:<br />
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Natural edge spalted maple.<br />
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Here are some others dry and ready to go:<br />
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The cherry slab inventory is full:<br />
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Big wide quartersawn white oak table top material - these are extraordinary:</div>
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Huge thick heavy oak slabs (those are keys, for scale):<br />
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Another shot of the elm on left, oak on right:<br />
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Box elder turning blanks (kiln dry):<br />
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Last but not least, crotch figured chunks in a number of different species (above the mantle pieces):<br />
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<br />Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-69065013852054145792015-04-13T12:50:00.001-05:002015-04-13T12:51:41.527-05:00Pear turning blanksThere are few woods as fun to turn as pear. We rarely have any blanks of any size in stock, so I am mentioning now that we DO have pear in sizable chunks for turning. We started with some big sections:<br />
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<br />Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-24272521580997177342015-04-06T13:51:00.000-05:002018-02-23T15:13:04.996-06:00Scenes from the yardLet's see if this new smart phone camera is any good. Here are some recent shots from the Lumber Logs' headquarters:<br />
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We finally bought fork extensions for the lift and can load the kiln without sweat:<br />
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We just got some nice wide cherry table top material from the sawyer. The biggest are 20" wide (before drying):<br />
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We have some green pear in sizable chunks:<br />
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Some pear still needs to be sawn into blanks:<br />
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If you want a piece of osage orange to turn then Joe will chainsaw off a chunk for you, leaving a pretty sight (if you like yellow):<br />
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Speaking of Joe, he has decided to decorate his workspace with a portrait of his niece. She is showing that you can pose with a (plastic) chainsaw and still be pretty.<br />
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<br />Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-21851471701632834692014-10-10T15:25:00.000-05:002014-10-12T13:51:34.791-05:00Lumber Logs makes its Disney Hall debutTwo members of the LA Philharmonic recently joined the four members of <a href="http://sopercussion.com/" target="_blank">So Percussion </a> for a performance of "Timber" by Michael Gordon at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The members of So made the walnut pieces being struck from Lumber Logs' wood. How cool is that?<br />
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"In the United States over 200 million cubic yards of urban tree and landscape residue are generated every year. Of this amount, 15 percent is classified as 'unchipped logs.' To put this figure in perspective, consider that if these logs were sawn into boards, they theoretically would produce 3.8 billion board feet of lumber, or nearly 30 percent of the hardwood lumber produced annually in the United States."<br />
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In most areas - and in St. Louis until 2004 - only a small percentage of those unchipped logs get sawn. Higher grade logs of desirable species have always gotten attention, but even all of these do not get used. (Nothing ruins a walnut log like a deeply buried bolt). It is keeping the gnarly pin oak from being dumped into a landfill that we at Lumber Logs are most proud of. Pallet boards, railroad ties, and blocking are not glamorous ends, but they all beat a landfill. <br />
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The reason these lower grade logs rarely get used is that collecting and getting them to a sawmill is simply not economic, at least not without the 5-10% that fall into the desirable category. By taking all of their log waste stream, we save tree removers time and money. By supporting Lumber Logs by buying your lumber from us, you are a key part of The Solution. I thank you for that.Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-47852309004630883582014-09-08T17:53:00.001-05:002017-02-16T13:49:13.353-06:00working notes: persimmonPersimmon is an extraordinary wood in several ways. First is its hardness. As the only domestic wood in the ebony family, this is no surprise. No wonder it is the wood used in golf club heads. This means you need to be super sharp to work it with hand tools, but it is not as difficult to work as its hardness suggests. In fact, it melts away beautifully under a rasp in any direction, I suppose because it lacks any of the stringiness you find in oak, hickory or black locust. This lack of stringiness makes it an excellent carving wood (much like ebony is) because you can come at it from most any angle and it will leave an exact track of what your gouge has done. This may not always be a plus if your carving skill matches mine, but it is incentive to up your carving game.<br />
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Once it is shaped, it will take a very high polish, so sand it to the highest grit you own. It will shimmer like marble.<br />
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Not that you will be making many loom shuttles, but this wood has high wear resistance, probably due to its high silica content. I am guessing this is another side of the high polish characteristic. In any case, if you have a situation calling for lots of rubbing, consider persimmon. I have used it for drawer sides and runners and I doubt they will wear in my lifetime. <br />
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Persimmon moves a lot when drying but I have noticed no particular issues once dry. As mentioned above, the black heartwood is a very small portion of a board and this part inevitably checks as it dries, so between warping and these checks, finding high grade boards can be a challenge. We do our best, but we end up with a number of smaller boards as a result. If you want to make a table top of persimmon, expect it to include character. This can be very effective. Take a look at the vanity one of our customers made from persimmon:<br />
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You can dress it up too. Here is a crotch piece with a blackwood accent:<br />
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We get a few persimmon logs and saw it 8/4 most of the time to assure we have something usable after it warps. The pieces are certainly larger than any ebony you might find, and at $5/bf, it is much cheaper.<br />
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I personally have very little experience with ebony. I am put off by its environmental reputation, so I am glad that my experiments with india ink and sanding to high grits are a very successful substitute:<br />
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First, a sample of PS white oak, the most common and cheapest cut (where the board face is parallel to a tangent of the log round):<br />
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Here is a sample of PS red oak:<br />
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Next, a sample of QS white oak (where the board face is along a radius of the log):<br />
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Here is the QS cut in red oak:<br />
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Here is today's subject, a RS sample in white oak that comes from a board that is somewhere between the two cuts above:<br />
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A RS red oak sample:<br />
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You can see at a glance that the RS wood has a quieter grain with the vertical lines of those annual rings lining up just so without the medullary ray flecks that the QS wood displays. I think this makes rift sawn oak easier to work into a design than either of the other two cuts. And not only for the frame in frame and panel work; see how well mannered it is as panel too:<br />
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So the answer when you want to use an oak but do not want the prominent grain shouting over the overall design is to use RS wood. You get oak's strength, more stability in use than PS stock, and a quiet unobtrusive look that lets the shape of the<i> design</i> get a word in edgewise. A table leg is another obvious situation where this becomes important. In fact, I'd prefer RS wood for the table's rails too. Only for the table top would I consider one of the other cuts, probably preferring the QS material for its stability. Save the PS wood for panels or pieces that go into sight-impaired homes.<br />
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In any case, if you pay attention to grain patterning in your work, the results will be visually more pleasing and you will find yourself searching for RS wood. This is why we have our red and white oak inventory segregated by cut.<br />
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I will jump straight to the bottom line: This log has yielded a higher percentage of wood that screams "Keep me!" than any log we've sawn since that curly AND burly soft maple in 2005. I believe the log was lightly spalted - no black line or soft areas, but tons of colors waving in soft flames vertically up the board. Tans, yellows, purples, darker browns, cream, all in undulating striations that really popped with one coat of oil. See for yourself:<br />
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Each and every board has these colors throughout the entire board!<br />
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I am rearranging my shop schedule to make something out of this wood as soon as possible. Gorgeous wood does that to me. I found a table design I had set aside a while ago; this is the wood for it. I can't wait. The wood is lighter weight than the sweetgum, but it has the same diffuse porous structure that makes the kind of surface that begs to be touched.<br />
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Oh, pricing. To be honest I began by pricing this wood like our sweetgum - around $4. (We also just pulled some sweetgum from the kiln, and one of those boards migrated to Tom's Private Stash, along with four for Joe's Stash), but the more I look at it, that is not right. This wood is unique. Other pictures of Tupelo online do not look this spectacular, so the best pieces of this wood will be $8/bf, about what you would pay for normal wood from other places. And this is far from normal. <br />
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As far as working characteristics, I may have more to say on this later, but for now it does not appear to be particularly difficult. Naturally it seems much like sweet gum (which may not help you much), although as mentioned these boards are lighter in weight. The sample above shows some tear out from the planer, but it saws, planes, glues and screws just fine. Perhaps soft maple is a comparison that is helpful. When wood looks this good I am willing to tackle some difficulties but I honestly do not foresee any.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In my opinion, none of these are particularly satisfying combinations because the wild uncontrolled grain of the frame is so distracting. And since PS is what you usually get when you buy without paying close attention, this is reason number one to think these things through when you design and when you select boards for a project. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Notice how the frame recedes and lets the panel be the focus? If you are going to use a ring porous wood, I'd almost always default to the RS frame for this reason. Note how quiet and unobtrusive the RS/RS one is? I like the effect but it could be considered almost too quiet; the action of the other two panels can be used to quite good effect, keeping in mind what happens with the other parts of the project that aren't frame and panel construction. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These aren't subtle, huh? Yet i could imagine finding a way to make the last two work. The PS panel is just an outta control visual, like watching a group of leopards go at it with a family of tigers. The RS panel might be a way to calm down a piece with lots of QS material. Most ww'ers seem to like the boisterous use QS with QS; a few craftsman era pieces depend on it. </span><br />
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Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-31816781860304609202014-02-21T16:34:00.000-06:002014-06-25T13:00:32.031-05:00working notes: ginkgoIf you search Woodfinder.com for "ginkgo" or the less correct "gingko" you will not find many vendors. Two, in fact, as I write this. Let's talk about it.<br />
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Ginkgo is a softer wood that is a pale buttery color with a tight grain. I recently made some picture frames from both soft maple and ginkgo and the experience was similar with each. Ginkgo might be a bit softer, it does not tear out nearly as much in the planer (but it will tear out if you go dead against the grain), but in most ways it works like a soft maple. Its looks would be more easily confused with a white pine. One notable point is that there do not seem to be any bad boards; all knots including the pith are tight and will stay in place. It is easy to hand plane, glue and screw into. Like soft maple, being on the soft side of many of the woods we work is an advantage to a project like a picture frame where you are gluing up miters. (Miters with softer wood go together faster and with less fuss, at least in my shop).<br />
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Maple on the left, ginkgo on the right. Both are unfinished:<br />
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<a href="http://michaelbauermeister.com/">Michael Bauermeister</a>, an experienced woodcarver, offered me these comments on working ginkgo: "Ginkgo is a nice carving wood that can be worked with hand tools. While
not as easy to carve as basswood, it does cut cleanly and holds a nice,
crisp edge. It is similar to butternut in terms of carving and grain but
lighter in color."<br />
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I have not turned any ginkgo, but I imagine that those characteristics mentioned would make a nice looking bowl if you can finds chunks to work with. We sell 4/4 and 8/4 boards. I could see it used as a secondary wood in place of maple or poplar if you wanted something with a slightly different look. Its color is much more consistent than either maple or poplar, at least in the logs we have sawn. Because of this consistency, we chose it for the signs on our lumber racks.<br />
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The tree can grow fairly large and magnificent, and it remains much as it was when the dinosaurs roamed. Not many species have been around as long. We see very few logs which might help explain why such a fine wood is not seen commercially. Like poplar or maple or butternut, it probably does not offer much rot resistance so it should be used indoors, but it is such a pleasure to work that I keep trying to think of more uses there.<br />
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Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945181871436275446.post-44347966339549498862013-09-09T14:03:00.000-05:002018-02-24T11:51:41.443-06:00Bye bye butternutSince we began this effort in 2004 we have come across exactly ONE butternut log. Apparently it does not grow naturally around here; thanks to whoever planted the one way back when. We had it sawn and just now sold the last of the lumber.<br />
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My only point - and you already knew this - is that if and when you come across some special wood, hoard it. Many of us already do this but I am surprised how many have spare bedrooms that are NOT filled with lumber. Kidding. Sorta. Tom @ Lumber Logshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16391210689676088593noreply@blogger.com2