Wood Porn

I went to this guy yesterday who has a woodmizer and usually has a lot of wood stacked up.  I don’t know if I would call him a mill, but I go there every few months to pickup some rough cut lumber.  

I bought some red cedar to build my second chair and a couple pieces of 8/4 Walnut just because it was laying around.  

Once I got home, I was inspired to clean some boards up from a previous visit to him.  I  cleaned up a good deal of the spalted maple that I got from him and then two other boards that I wasn’t sure what they were.  All of the boards look grey and weathered when I get them home and its kinda rough to see what their grains look like and sometimes the condition of the boards can be a bit obscured as well.

The last two boards that I did last night, I’m not really sure what they are.  I remember picking them up because he said they had some spalted figure in them.  

These boards are pretty light and the colors are just awesome.  Maybe its just me (because I have some color blindness), but the blue and oranges just pop on these boards.  I carried them upstairs just to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.  My wife confirmed the board has a lot of blue in it.  Now she wants me to make her something with them, but I don’t think I have enough to do anything of any significance.

wow what interesting grain coloration and pattern, maybe a live edge book shelf or something you could leave the majority of those planks in tact

The grain looks great 

Could make an end table?

Cut one edge off of each board, make a panel from remainder, add legs and enjoy a new coffee table.


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I love that grain John.

I owned a tree svc for about 12 years. I used to cringe when I saw blue streaks in wood as it usually meant there was metal in the tree and we were going to wack up a bunch of chains blocking up the wood.  I never saw blue streaks naturally, but every area has different species of trees.

For some reason I am not able to view pictures right now, but from other comments it sounds like some beautiful wood.

Atlas2000 wrote:

55 minutes ago, Atlas2000 said:

For some reason I am not able to view pictures right now, but from other comments it sounds like some beautiful wood.

Its not just you. Something is wrong with the site.

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Its not just you. Something is wrong with the site.

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They are migrating servers, give it a few days and it should be back to ABnormal
 

Fixed that for you.

rrmccabe wrote:

 
Fixed that for you.

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what hump?