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Andyp wrote:Yep chain saws are typically cross cut. You can get, and I bought, a rip chain for mine which works much better.
Andyp wrote:You will have plenty of time to think about what to make while it dries. Lucky devil.
Andyp wrote:Does that mean you will part turn the bowl now?
Woodbloke wrote: They're now awaiting the attention of my yet to be delivered froe
selectortone wrote:Woodbloke wrote: They're now awaiting the attention of my yet to be delivered froe
I'll be interested to hear how you get on with that froe. I tried to split some large sections of a newly felled beech trunk in halves for bowl blanks, using a large axe-head and a lump hammer, and couldn't get them to split all the way across in a straight line. I ended up getting a mate to chainsaw them.
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Andyp wrote:Suggest you drop a thread in the turning section so Dalboy, Derek, spots it. He has done more wet turning than I.
Woodster wrote:I suspect the humble Froe has been around for centuries. Although less common now there still seem to be people that use them. How well they work must surely depend on the timber in question?
TrimTheKing wrote:... I'm sure you can fashion a magnificent live edge coffee table from that by bolting a couple of legs on it!
Jimmy Mack wrote:Very nice Rob. Some gorgeous looking timber. I'm assuming that slices of metal are in the slabs, were you able to see them glinting in the light? Dig them out?
A job for the metal detector when you're ready to work the stock in the shop.
Jim
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9fingers wrote:Rob, Out of interest is "Rob the miller" the alaskan mill chap who lives/ works on the southern edge of the new forest, Silver Street in the address comes to mind.
I bought a board of Holm Oak from him years back for a job and still got a hunk left waiting for the right job to show it off nicely. I made a shelf for my niece from it but I think she ended up painting it - Heathen
Bob
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