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From firewood to ash shovel handle

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  1. Scotty Overkill

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    Scotty Overkill, Feb 7, 2017
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    That would be epic Scotty Overkill! I have a very strong desire to pound steel. I think someday I may have to scratch the itch. A while back I watched a video of a guy making a knife from a RR tie. Awesome!

    I'm also addicted to the show Forged In Fire.
     
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    Even a good sized split would be enough for those pistol grips. You two need to get together.
     
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    Even the small pieces make nice knife handles.


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    Those are some absolutely beautiful handles! I can't wait till me and Scotty Overkill come across a few pieces of wood like that. If we do he was saying about use building some muzzle loaders. :thumbs: Hummm now just to fine the perfect tree.:whistle:
     
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    Don't forget, we dropped that sugar maple off at Tonys. It had a lean to it, I'm betting it's got some curl in it....
     
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    That's right I forgot about that. We'll have to see when he could mill it for us!
     
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    I'd like to get it done ASAP, so I can sticker it and paint the ends
     
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    Those are gorgeous !!
     
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    Any updates on this (possible) curly maple log/planks?
     
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    Since this thread popped back up...
    My coworker walked past at work a few months ago carrying a piece of firewood and hollered "here try this" and opened my van door and threw it in. It was a split that came from the stump/first round of a maple his neighbor had taken down.
    He saw some curl in it and thought i could use it.
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    So i let it dry a couple months and made this and gave it back to him. His eyes lit up. I told him to give it to his wife for a candy dish.
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    He said he'd keep an eye out for more cause he knew he had split a bunch.

    A few weeks later he called me and said hey ima stop over and drop some wood off.
    Said he found some more of those pieces. I think there's 5 more.
     
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    Maybe Scotty Overkill and joe took this tree down (next door to Paul's)
     
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    Wow! That's awesome Tim. I just can't bring myself to throw pieces like that in the fire because I know their potential.
     
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    Man that would have looked fantastic an a Belgian made Browning shotgun!
     
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    Nice handles for sure !!
     
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    Sweet Tiger Stripes. I see a lot of that in the flared bases of big red oaks. Maple is a more utilitarian wood tho due to the closed grain.
     
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    Where was it?
     
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    Not sure when that was Tim but the last time that I remembered being present milling a sugar maple (it's been long while) I remember being disappointed. The last sugar maple that we cut had a lean and Scotty did a quick check and there was no curl. That wss back in the springtime.
     
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    Those are rhe planks drying in my shop, there is some light curl along the edge of them, but not much.

    blacksmith and I have two big sugar maples to take down in Tyrone, they look promising for curl wood...
     
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    Am I reading yall correctly, that there are indicators that tell you a tree may have curl? Such as lean? Any others?
     
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