Walnut

[Forest2Furniture]

Lovely looking piece of timber, what is the plan for it?

 

It's not my tree I'm being paid to mill it.

 

The guy wants it milling for floorboards and a undercover garden table from 3" slabs.

[Forest2Furniture]

don't worry pat, i'll get rid of all that for you mate. there's no need for you to toil over it anymore.

 

 

 

how much sycamore have you got cut?

 

Thanks for the offer steve, you're about 10th in the queue!

[Forest2Furniture]

Any logs you don't want I could collect?

 

No doubt you could but any logs I don't want are sold before they're even loaded.

[hoofguy]

Does anyone have any milled extra wide waney edge walnut slabwood suitable for dining tables..? the wider and longer the better.

[Forest2Furniture]

Before I turn the trunk into floorboards I finally convinced the customer that there maybe something else they want made from the tree.

I was thinking couple of 2" thick book-matched slabs make a nice table but no, they decided they wanted a 4" thick slab to make an island table, me and my big mouth!

 

Cut in yesterday mornings heat 1 slab of English Walnut 4" x 29" x 108"

[wisewood]

Lovely wood, will it not suffer being cut in this heat? I cut some burry oak in similar conditions a few years back and the boards surface checked almost immediately

[Big J]

Bit of a waste that. Lovely timber and walnut has no business being cut bloody 4 inches thick (or to be used as floorboards!).

 

Life would be so much simpler without customers!

[Forest2Furniture]

Bit of a waste that. Lovely timber and walnut has no business being cut bloody 4 inches thick (or to be used as floorboards!).

 

Life would be so much simpler without customers!

 

I couldn't have out it better myself:thumbup1:

[Forest2Furniture]

Lovely wood, will it not suffer being cut in this heat? I cut some burry oak in similar conditions a few years back and the boards surface checked almost immediately

 

If they get it inside asap it should be OK, never had to much trouble milling in the heat before, not to the wood anyway, me on the other hand, that's another matter :big grin:

 

Milled the first lot on Tuesday and left instructions that it must be moved that night but it was still out in the blazing sun on Saturday morning!

[Forest2Furniture]

Customer has progressed from island units to worktops now so I was asked to mill 2 pieces @ 2" this morning just managed to do that before calling time as the temperature had reached 34 degrees and my body is not designed to work in that heat.