Cedar of Lebanon Timber

[Spruce Pirate]

Thanks for the replies.  I'll try and remember and take a couple of pics when I'm done and put them up here.

[Spruce Pirate]

Haven't got round to making a bench yet, but did plank up the CoL to make the roof for a Fairy House for one of the local nursery schools.

[gobbypunk]

Loaves the house does the door open

[Spruce Pirate]

Yes, door opens.  All hollowed out inside.  Selection of photo's from start to finish on our Facebook page if you're on there and want a look. https://www.facebook.com/pg/weir.forestry.arnprior/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1805770152812577

[CDMR]

Lovely work.

[gobbypunk]

That’s cool it’s a nightmare hollowing out like that I do it quite often 

Cheers Mark 

[Spruce Pirate]

On ‎01‎/‎07‎/‎2018 at 16:43, gobbypunk said:

That’s cool it’s a nightmare hollowing out like that I do it quite often 

Cheers Mark 

If you've any tips I'm all ears. 

 

Other than that, it's sharp saw and a good bar and line things up as best as possible.  Not easy on a taper when the wood is longer than the bar length.

[wisewood]

If you've any tips I'm all ears. 
 
Other than that, it's sharp saw and a good bar and line things up as best as possible.  Not easy on a taper when the wood is longer than the bar length.

I did a similar thing a few years back.
My approach was to mill the outer wood off in slabs, leaving a hexagonal core. The log was then screwed/ bolted back together [emoji106]

[timbernut]

Love the fairy house, I’ve only bored biggish stumps for planters and found it fairly tedious!
Forgot I’d posted on this thread and have now milled the cedar, I did board at 3”:

Lad workin wi me made some seating while I milled:

[Spruce Pirate]

23 hours ago, wisewood said:

I did a similar thing a few years back.
My approach was to mill the outer wood off in slabs, leaving a hexagonal core. The log was then screwed/ bolted back together

Any pictures? 

 

I'd thought of doing similar to make a kind of a castle structure, quartering a log and using each quarter for a turret and them milling some timber to put in between each turret as walls.