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I will add pictures to this page as I find time. Here is a nice walnut book match. 14" wide lumber.
| | An even wider set. 24" wide boards ten feet long sawn 5/4", fresh off the mill. They will darken as they dry like the previous picture.
| | Book matched eastern red cedar. 24" wide as a set. Here is a link to a short 1 minute video of me milling these very boards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqIbvMf7B-8 |
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| Very large cedar boards, I am 6' 3" for scale. | | Spalted hackberry. | | Spalted curly maple with white birdseye sap wood. Very pretty little book match. 14" wide boards.
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Interesting figured walnut on the mill. 12" wide boards.
| | More unique walnut. I guess it is apparent I like to mill book matched boards. 14" wide boards on the mill.
| | Walnut crotch. This tree was destroyed by a tornado, there were just pieces left.
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Another walnut crotch flitch. 24" wide and 36" long, the feather figure is almost 30" long.
| | Pictures did not do this set justice, curly maple crotch slabs 20" wide and 36" long. The figure is amazing, but hard to capture in a photograph fresh off the mill. | | Half a ton of urban logged burls in a pile. Redbud, catalpa, cherry, maple, elm... |
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| I grabbed one of the burls for a closer picture, this one is eastern redbud. | | Most people have probably not seen redbud lumber either. This is a pretty hard to find 2" x 6" board. | | Quarter sawn sycamore is a very attractive wood. |
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| 12" wide curly quarter sawn oak. I milled some 24" wide from the same log, it sold and I have had an unfortunate computer crash since then and lost many pictures of lumber I have milled over the years. | | Two curly maple boards 24" wide and six feet long in an amazing matched set.
| | Another 24" wide piece of lumber from the same log as the previous set with a simple oil finish on it. |
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| More figured walnut. Two of my favorite things combined, walnut and figure. This came from a stump that was sawn out for gun stocks. | | A 20" wide walnut cant on the mill, I pulled many beautiful boards from this one. | | Another 20" wide chunk on the mill, this is white ash. |
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| A perfectly clear osage orange on the deck. I milled a great stack of lumber from this log I found in a ditch. | | A spalted curly maple book match from the crotch of a very large tree. Absolutely stunning in person. | | I have already pictured 1/4 sawn red oak, here is some white oak sawn the same way. Notice the unusual ray flecks ?
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| The same 1/4 sawn white oak from above. From this angle you can see the reason for the non typical flecks, this oak is also curly. This picture is just right after the planer with a finish that curl will really stand out. | | Osage orange that had laid in a burn pile for years, it sure milled out pretty.
| | Honeylocust is one of my favorite woods ( admittedly I have many favorites). |
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| I have to explain these next 3 pictures, they are all close ups of different parts of a single board. | | This board has no finish on it, it has just been thickness planed and misted with water to make the figure show. | | This particular board is in my "personal stash" it is a 24" wide slab of spalted figured red maple. |
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| This table in my living room is made from the same log as the previous pictures. From a distance like in the picture the figure is impressive, but you can see from the close ups every square inch is interesting. This log came from exactly 2 blocks from my house. | | 17" wide eastern red cedar board on the mill, a nice yard tree that had to be removed for an addition to a home.
| | Rare exotic ? Not if you live east of the Rockies (hint) this is a very common tree, just one overlooked by most. Thanks for visiting...If you can ID this species send me an email with your guess. |
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Very interesting figured mulberry on the sawmill. I milled 21" wide boards from this piece.
| | This is how the lumber starts out, in a big pile in my yard. These beautiful walnut logs where removed for a warehouse expansion. This was just the walnut from the job, I also salvaged cedar, black locust and birch. Good day to be an urban logger !
| | A rather interesting elm crotch flitch from a burled old tree. This piece is 27" wide and a little over 4' long sawn 6/4, it should make a neat table.
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Another elm crotch the same size as the last one pictured, the photo just does not do the figure and color justice...It's a beauty.
| | I never know what is just going to show up, check back later I'm sure there will be more pictures of urban harvested lumber. | | |
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