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Discussion in 'The Sawyer Room' started by Shawn Curry, Nov 8, 2015.

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  1. Shawn Curry

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    I ended up ganging the 2 6" slabs together to finish sawing my 6x6's. I used some f-clamps to try to realign them as best I could. It worked out pretty good, but some end dawgs shaped like this ] sure would have come in handy. Will Malloff uses them and I've seen them on wranglerstar videos as well. (I'm dropping a huge Secret Santa hint here... ;):whistle::D) Made some 2" slabs from the rest.

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    Shawn Curry, Nov 14, 2015
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    Awesome work there Shawn :thumbs:
     
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    Getting there...

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    I roughed out the remaining 2 logs today and hauled them up to the house. Every one of these logs ended up being a little crooked. This tree actually has a twin, quite a bit larger and still standing. So I think it must have been sort of a 'side reacher'. If I would have sawn it at the natural bends, I probably could have had some longer stock. I ended up with 6 and 7' lengths after sawing off a bit of firewood from the ends.

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    Shawn Curry, Nov 15, 2015
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    Boy , your just havin all kinds of fun out there :thumbs: :saw::dex:
     
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    Living a dream... :thumbs: It was a beautiful day today too. I've got next week off - hopefully we get some weather like this!
     
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    Nice here too, when it turns cold you can go play in the shop , that's fun too:)
     
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    I made a couple of the slabs today. I worked on a nice piece of ash too.

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    Shawn Curry, Nov 21, 2015
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    Looks great Shawn :saw: :thumbs:
     
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    Jealous of all that !! Nice work :)
     
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    As for the Ash.....I personally prefer it over Oak ! Some of the most beautiful grain in my opinion :)
     
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