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Milling a burled red maple

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    Final stack.
     
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    Client is happy. He is sending photos outside his shop where he is going to stack and sticker the slabs.

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    There is a LOT"" of character in that one.

    Well done.
     
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    Sorry not mine I was milling for a client. He is a project manager for a high end home builder and has been renovating a house and they took this tree down in the back yard and he had the tree guys leave it.

    He has a 2500 square foot shop and does extensive custom work on the projects.
     
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    It probably would have gone in a tub grinder if he hadn’t had them leave it.
     
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    Oh somebodies gonna make something purty out of that.
     
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    We need to find something like that. Wonder what is worth?
     
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    It got taken down last fall. No real spalting. Had some ambrosia beetle tracks and the burls. He asked for 8/4 slabs. The butt log yielded +/- 24" wide slabs and the second log 18" to 20".

    The photos don't do it justice. They are really spectacular. I got 7 good slabs out of the butt log.

    Asking price? The butt log slabs are about 12'. Kiln dried I could see someone asking a big number. Second log is 7'6"

    I told him he should consider paying to put it in the IDry that someone has in town and he could have them ready to go in a couple weeks and they would warp and check less.