Ok, this is a sad tale of being a dollar short and a day late.
Well, more like $60 short and 2 hours late.
I was driving to the grocery store when I noticed a crane in someones yard. How odd... Then I see a truck bed with lots of black walnut logs in the bed.
So, I do what I'm duty...
Not me/no one I know... seems like a fair price for black walnut
4/4 6"wide by 12 ft long ~1700bf at about $2.50 per bf
http://greensboro.craigslist.org/mat/1678777402.html
So, about four years ago I promised to make my wife a bed out of black walnut... but we being poor have been putting that off until we can afford to buy walnut stock that is big enough for a king bed.
anywho, I just scored about 300bf of 5/4 black walnut all from one tree, in boards that...
Not mine. You better know what you are doing; Glenwood has lots of wires and buildings/houses close together. The likelihood of some metal in the tree could be lower...
BLACK WALNUT TREE (Historic Glenwood)
Date: 2010-03-10, 2:49PM EST
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I just finished removing a fairly substantial black walnut from a friends yard. I've done enough research to know that I'm not sitting on a gold mine, but I believe there is some value in the...
Found this on Raleigh CL and thought it might be of some interest to our sawmill owners or anyone with a portable mill.
Link: http://raleigh.craigslist.org/mat/1615254279.html
Black walnut tree (raleigh, down town)
Date: 2010-02-24, 12:10AM EST
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Another friend heard of the piano bench build-a-thon taking place at my shop, and decided he wanted one. He didn't have as much free time as I did, so I took this one on by myself. Nothing fancy, and no storage, this piano bench is a little smaller than the other one (see other thread).
This...
Hello, my name is Karen, and I just joined. I have been working with wood for ~ 20 years. I have made things from incense burners, to boxes (small and large) to pieces of furniture. I love to smell wood, hold it and work with it. Enough about me.
I wanted to let others know that an elderly...
My dad (JCraig) just had a nice sized limb taken off of his black walnut tree to prevent it from crushing his shop :). We are both wondering if the limb is worth taking to a sawyer or should we just cut it up into Bowl and Pen blanks. :)
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Just another small segmented bowl, something while working on a large project.
Black Walnut, what I call throw away bowls (small and easy)
Hope ya'll like it
This is a bowl I have been working on side by side with another project I am doing, the other has some large cracks that need filling so during drying I have been doing this. 12" Spalted Red Gum this log came from Don P's(touchwood) yard and spalted at my shop, sanded to 400 finished with...
Stanley Works is buying rival Black & Decker for $4.5 billion, the new company will be known as Stanley Black & Decker.
Now they will have a big hand tool line among there power tools, what's next ?
Any opinions ?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In a major consolidation of the tool industry, Stanley Works agreed to acquire Black & Decker in a $4.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies said Monday.
Under the terms of the deal, Black & Decker (BDK, Fortune 500) shareholders will receive 1.275 shares of Stanley...
Here's another table I'm working on for the front porch, it's Quarter Sawn Black Locust HARD wood, it sure is pretty though... This wood about worked me silly, it burns real easy and had to progressive sanding fom 20 grit to 220 grit. I sanded every piece. It's silky smooth now and hard as a...
The May/June 2009 issue of Fine Woodworking posted the following letter:
I a a professor of entomology at Colorado State University, where we have discovered a new insect-carried fungus called Thousand Cankers, which poses an extreme threat to black walnut in North America. Currently, we think...