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Too nice to burn

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  1. Grahamt

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    Hope I'm not the only one that can't bring myself to split and burn all what I get my hands on .
    This piece now serves as a coffee / jd table next to the sofa.
    Just after some ideas with still been new to this wood cutting .
     

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    Character for sure.
     
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    Nice
    End table?
     
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    Emergency log.

    bob
     
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  5. Grahamt

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    14 inch on top
     
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  6. Grahamt

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    I'm using my carvings that went wrong for that
     
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    sure looks interesting.
     
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    That's great! Did you do anything special to prepare it? Is that a spray polyurethane finish?
     
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    Welcome to the forum Grahamt

    That is a beautiful piece of wood! I'm sure many would gladly pay a good price for those but if they were mine, I surely would not wish to sell as they would become furniture for sure.
     
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    Iv a pile awaiting ideas , started on a chair earlier for the garden .
    Having a beer with frost on the ground , next to fire pit pondering
     

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    Thank you , it was six feet tall when I started chopping it for firewood . But it started to look nice . Spent two weeks sanding in my spare time then seven coats of varnish .
     
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    How do you get it to dry without cracks?
     
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    Pertty piece of wood, what type?
    I'm sure that was 2 weeks of hand sanding for sure. Your arms must look like…………. th-2.jpeg :eek:
     
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    Welcome to the club! I know just what you mean - I recently had a ~2 cord pile of curly red maple from a giant yard tree I cleaned up for a friend. I had to give most of it to my BIL because I would have never made it into firewood. :) I saved a few of the pieces but the biggest is only maybe 24" long. It's kindof a shame the tree service cut it all into cookies.
     
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    I wish they were , just electric sander on top to level my wonky cut
     
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    It was dry when I found it propped up against a wall .
     
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    Sorry afraid I'm not up on types of wood .ill get another pic some one may be dale to I'd it
     
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    I've made a few tool handles out of nice mulberry. I like what you did
     
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    A piece like that is prime for a stylized carver. They would basically do like you did and going one step further to carve part of an animal into a nodule as if it was forming out of the tree. I could see a river otter carved into a lower nodule looking out. Even an owls head looking out would be great.
     
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