Many winters ago when I was in college, one of my professors was from Ohio. He grew up in an old family house 100+ years old. They tore into it to do some remodeling or something and discovered the whole house was made with large black walnut timbers. I've read that in the old growth forest, black walnuts got 150 feet tall and had straight, clear trunks for the first 75 feet. It was so common they thought nothing of building house out of it.
I've heard of other stories like that Remington Arms company bought this building that had all been made out of black walnut to use for gun stocks kind of black walnut that doesn't even exist anymore
If you have never worked with wood with your own hands and made the most of the wood you will never understand just how good it feels to finally stand back and appreciate it.
It's a very special feeling when you've completed a project that you put your entire being into, and know that it will outlive you and will be cherished by those who come after you. It's as if part of you lives on.
I see table tops beautiful table tops in lots of different finishes and where the rot was using epoxy in different colors and at least one with a polyurethane finish that look like glass .My dad was wood worker so I learned from him
I called my dad up 30 min ago to inquire about the giant walnuts that are on the family farm. I figured they would make fantastic floors. I think I may have grossly underestimated the value of those trees. 🤔
Anybody else watch the entire video just to see what the next slab would look like? I knew those center cuts through the crotches would look good, but that figure was amazing! Just one of those really nice center cuts could make about 20 nice rifle stock blanks at an average of $1,000 each. That wood was so nice the cheapest stock out of it would still be around $800, with some of the nicer figured pieces going for around $2,000. That’s before a gunsmith even touches it. I have a buddy that makes custom stocks for rifles and shotguns. His cheapest stocks go for $5,000. Takes him a month to make one. People wonder how he can charge so much. Well, because he buys wood like this, then inlets it by hand, checkers it by hand, then oil finishes it for two weeks in a special box he built for curing stocks. But it all starts with a really nice, really expensive piece of wood. They are beautiful, one if a kind works of art. I can’t afford one, but I can hang out in his shop, admire his craft, and drink his beers 😊
I had to cut down a big black walnut on my property this morning. Which brings me to this video. My walnut was about 38.5” round at the base. I saved the first three 12’ logs. The base is real narly and will look awesome once ripped long ways I’m gonna mill them up one day soon.
In Michigan, I had a customer that wanted a black Walnut tree removed from his backyard. It was so round you could not hug it to touch your hands...took two people to do so. It was clear with no branches from the bottom up thirteen feet before the very first branch. It was huge. I told him to have it harvested for the wood because of the value. He said his tree service told him it didn't have much value, and so they took it. What would a tree's value be like that, clear for thirteen feet, and two people to hug it? I feel they stole that tree from him.
Beautiful, as the 100-125 year old maple and cedar grow old, we are replanting with black walnut. Nice to see what the wood will look like to my great great grandkids.
Lovely superb Nice sawing of American Black Walnut huge timber log. The grain of this log is very good for furniture and after polishing it will be amazing.
I cut down 40 black walnut trees off my property 15 years back and sold 90% to gunmakers for stocks I assume. They were the ones paying the best at the time for all the black walnut. I had a 12-15 like this here and the rest slightly smaller. They were very picky I remember on where to cut they wanted certain lengths at crotches etc.
Historical pieces. 300 years old ? Approximately ? Or 500 years ? And how about the rest of this supernice tree ? Nice wood for Gold&Gold whisky bar in Tokyo with some Geysha music entartaiment.
@@ysasada18 I met George when I was eighteen at his shop in New Hope, Pennsylvania. What an incredibly gifted artist. I miss him and think of him every day. Arigatou gozaimasu
I had a band saw mill slab up an old Black Walnut here at my place a couple years back. It is stickered in my Greenhouse. I milled some up, and it is gorgeous and dense. Super-dense, heavy wood. And you should see it after I fume it with Ammonium Hydroxide. Wow!
Would we human beings even have a civilization without wood for building and heat? It is truly a wonderful and critical resource, and a thing of immense beauty as well. What a log!
What a beauty. I could cry to see nature’s bounty and beauty . You can not produce this if you tried. Years and years of growing in the forest. That grain.wow.
God! These people and their dangerous methods of working!! Getting THAT CLOSE, BENT OVER, on a platform hardly meant for humans to traverse - near that blade! It would cut off an arm in half a second!
Wondering why and how the obviously very old tree was obtained and then milled in Japan - the mill style is favoured throughout Japan and we have one in our village in Iiyama
Yoshihiro, what does your company do with the sawdust? Have you looked at wood pellet production at all? Just an idea for all of the sawdust left over.
Incredible!! So, do you know what the intended use(s) are for this gorgeous material, and were the slabs cut to varying thicknesses, and what were the thickness of the slabs, in inches please!!
I wondered how they were going to handle the torque caused by the almost complete cut. How to work around the inherently bad decision to use a verticle bandsaw. I assume the vertical blade is traditional. How many workers have tripped and fallen into the running blade?
I would want to utilize this lumber in the largest usable size. A giant conference table comes to mind and I don't mean a rectangular-shaped table. This tree has some beautiful grain. Were someone sitting at the resulting table happen to mar the table, I would shoot him/her.
That's an impressive piece of of wood and a very impressive mill.
Looks like Wuhan....
Many winters ago when I was in college, one of my professors was from Ohio. He grew up in an old family house 100+ years old. They tore into it to do some remodeling or something and discovered the whole house was made with large black walnut timbers. I've read that in the old growth forest, black walnuts got 150 feet tall and had straight, clear trunks for the first 75 feet. It was so common they thought nothing of building house out of it.
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I've heard of other stories like that Remington Arms company bought this building that had all been made out of black walnut to use for gun stocks kind of black walnut that doesn't even exist anymore
Very cool
Only in ohio
Man I would trip if I had run across a house made of walnut.
Absolutely splendid.
What does a slab like this run? With every cut was just better and better.
Nice!
Beautiful wood
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Now that saw doesn't piss about
How old is this tree ?
Just curious why you live sawed this log?
That walnut is beautifully figured!
DAI KIREI DESU 👍💕
It would make some very beautiful rifle stocks !!!
Such beautiful wood! I would stare at it for hours if it were sanded smooth and polished. I find it comforting.
Yes, you are just awe struck by the grain, the God given wonder of your joy!!
If you have never worked with wood with your own hands and made the most of the wood you will never understand just how good it feels to finally stand back and appreciate it.
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@@ysasada18 Domo arigato gozaimasu
It's a very special feeling when you've completed a project that you put your entire being into, and know that it will outlive you and will be cherished by those who come after you. It's as if part of you lives on.
I absolutely agree 💯
The feel, the intoxicating sent of walnut, maple and cherry, is left to those who are blessed to enjoy!!!
I have 4 black walnut trees down in my back yard right now. About 24 inch in diameter and 25 feet
If you have kids. You have college money. Black Walnut was high 20 years ago.
excellent gunstock wood with all those curvy crotch grain pieces
That is the most beautiful piece of wood I have ever seen! I wish I had some of the scraps!
Considering those are 8 quarter slabs I would venture to say that that piece of lumber is worth well over $50,000.
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I see table tops beautiful table tops in lots of different finishes and where the rot was using epoxy in different colors and at least one with a polyurethane finish that look like glass .My dad was wood worker so I learned from him
This almost a satisfying as watching wood turning. That grain is absolutely beautiful.
It broke my heart when my spouse bought some crappy pine end tables with ceramic tops. I had to give up my oak end tables I bought in the 90's.
Amazing looks like a granite, walnuts furniture really very special,
Gorgeous wood, i have 15 black walnut trees in my back yard. I use the saplings for hiking sticks.
white beard and endless walnuts!
and that ladies & gentlemen is called really expensive wood.
100K log
I called my dad up 30 min ago to inquire about the giant walnuts that are on the family farm. I figured they would make fantastic floors. I think I may have grossly underestimated the value of those trees. 🤔
I`m just planting 200 pieces for my 2 year old son!
Yes that is valuable wood even in America, I hope he gets use of all the pieces, and sales at good price.
The last cuts after they rotated the Walnut look like a pair of eyes.
Anybody else watch the entire video just to see what the next slab would look like? I knew those center cuts through the crotches would look good, but that figure was amazing! Just one of those really nice center cuts could make about 20 nice rifle stock blanks at an average of $1,000 each. That wood was so nice the cheapest stock out of it would still be around $800, with some of the nicer figured pieces going for around $2,000. That’s before a gunsmith even touches it. I have a buddy that makes custom stocks for rifles and shotguns. His cheapest stocks go for $5,000. Takes him a month to make one. People wonder how he can charge so much. Well, because he buys wood like this, then inlets it by hand, checkers it by hand, then oil finishes it for two weeks in a special box he built for curing stocks. But it all starts with a really nice, really expensive piece of wood. They are beautiful, one if a kind works of art. I can’t afford one, but I can hang out in his shop, admire his craft, and drink his beers 😊
You write about cutting down a majestic tree to use it's wood for the making of weapons. Idiot.
That is the biggest black walnut I have ever seen! And they are everywhere here. Gorgeous slabs
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I had to cut down a big black walnut on my property this morning.
Which brings me to this video.
My walnut was about 38.5” round at the base.
I saved the first three 12’ logs.
The base is real narly and will look awesome once ripped long ways
I’m gonna mill them up one day soon.
In Michigan, I had a customer that wanted a black Walnut tree removed from his backyard. It was so round you could not hug it to touch your hands...took two people to do so. It was clear with no branches from the bottom up thirteen feet before the very first branch. It was huge. I told him to have it harvested for the wood because of the value. He said his tree service told him it didn't have much value, and so they took it. What would a tree's value be like that, clear for thirteen feet, and two people to hug it? I feel they stole that tree from him.
As I watch I am sensing the sweet smell of the wood. I made a rocking chair out of walnut and I recall the sweet aroma.
What an incredible piece of wood...God's a genius.
Beautiful, as the 100-125 year old maple and cedar grow old, we are replanting with black walnut. Nice to see what the wood will look like to my great great grandkids.
Black walnut is a very slow growing tree. This log is probably several hundred years old. I don't know just guessing what do ya'll THINK?
I wonder what the worth of the boards are? Some sawmill man on here has to have a ballpark figure. Beautiful wood.
Slabs for some beautiful tables? Would love to see the finished product.
Lovely superb Nice sawing of American Black Walnut huge timber log. The grain of this log is very good for furniture and after polishing it will be amazing.
You May think I am odd, but saw all kinds on animals in the grain of this wood! Bear, crocodiles, penguin, and even a hummingbird!
not at all, that's the magic of this wood.
Me too.
You don't get to see this beauty often in life . people. Would die for a slab . Beautiful.
Imagine turning that into paneling (much thinner of course) and using it on the walls of a cigar and bar room just the way it is in full pieces!
I cut down 40 black walnut trees off my property 15 years back and sold 90% to gunmakers for stocks I assume. They were the ones paying the best at the time for all the black walnut. I had a 12-15 like this here and the rest slightly smaller. They were very picky I remember on where to cut they wanted certain lengths at crotches etc.
12:55 was my favorite piece. I think I saw the Hermit of the Tarot figure.
11:35 good too.
Historical pieces. 300 years old ? Approximately ? Or 500 years ? And how about the rest of this supernice tree ? Nice wood for Gold&Gold whisky bar in Tokyo with some Geysha music entartaiment.
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This log turned out to be a gold mine!!
We have much of it were I live, it use to bring more money than it does now, it has a unique smell when sawing it.
When burning in a woodstove, it smells like you're baking a cake!!
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I would like to see the rest of the process
O M G !!!! Such a beautiful collection of Rifles Stocks! Thank you!
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That was my first thought. I see walnut, I think rifle stock.
What a beautiful tree being cut up. I wish I could buy just one salad. That would make a amazing table
Probably 20k or more here in states
Pricy Rifle Stocks!
It reminds me of wood I saw in the late George Nakashima's shop. Beautiful
I know George Nakajima.
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@@ysasada18 I met George when I was eighteen at his shop in New Hope, Pennsylvania. What an incredibly gifted artist. I miss him and think of him every day. Arigatou gozaimasu
My acquaintance is doing his museum.
He is a furniture dealer.
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this is the most beautiful wood i have ever seen,very nice video.
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That is one gorgeous wood.
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I had a band saw mill slab up an old Black Walnut here at my place a couple years back. It is stickered in my Greenhouse. I milled some up, and it is gorgeous and dense. Super-dense, heavy wood. And you should see it after I fume it with Ammonium Hydroxide. Wow!
i have a whole forest of black walnut $$$
Would we human beings even have a civilization without wood for building and heat?
It is truly a wonderful and critical resource, and a thing of immense beauty as well. What a log!
And a renewable resource.
@@ricovali9245 in 100-150 years, sure. Just we've fucked up the world enough to no more full grown trees in 50 years...
Next time put some extra video after each cut to show us how the slab ended up looking. Beautiful stuff. Serious blade!
How come you didn't rotate the log more and expose the main crotch. Just wondering.
What a beauty. I could cry to see nature’s bounty and beauty . You can not produce this if you tried. Years and years of growing in the forest. That grain.wow.
Hell we have that all the time here in the great state of Missouri . Makes good gun stocks
Such beautiful grain, I love this.
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This is just satisfying to watch
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God send trend trouble romr
Black walnut is the most beautiful wood. When I die I want my casket to be made of black walnut.
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1枚板のテーブルとかにするんですか?
それとも。。。
どういう製品になるのでしょうか?
木は輸入なんですね?
輸入木材も国産木材も
両方です。
一枚板のテーブルを製作する
得意先が多いです。
Anyone know how mu h each slab is worth? $1500-$5000 I'm guessing.
After the second cut, the remaining log looked like a modern art masterpiece.
Absolutely incredible wood
Beautiful slabs! 👍👍 Thanks for sharing
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A god given thing of beauty. Rare in the extreme. Handle with the utmost care. Every slab could be a master work of art.
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Also me work .ve y find work.
Such beautiful grain
I hope it will be used to make an unique piece of furniture
1:32 after the 2nd cut the log looked like a grim reaper lol
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Beautiful amazing center cuts!
Wow that is beautiful
I look at that wood as you're sawing it and I see beautiful tables, and chairs all designed to show off that grain.
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That is magnificent lumber. My God, it's beautiful. I hope it became something breathtaking.
Whats the measuring & marking all about? Anyone? Txs..
That would make a awesome coffee table
Cuts like Butter!! 👍
Wow that's unbelievably beautiful wood that's a once in a lifetime log
I could watch this all day.
I wonder what the logger got paid for that one log?
One of my favorite woods. I turn a lot of it and still have a nice supply of it.
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Wow what a beautiful tree that is very nice grain pattern
God! These people and their dangerous methods of working!! Getting THAT CLOSE, BENT OVER, on a platform hardly meant for humans to traverse - near that blade! It would cut off an arm in half a second!
Wondering why and how the obviously very old tree was obtained and then milled in Japan - the mill style is favoured throughout Japan and we have one in our village in Iiyama
It probably came from Missouri walnut in southwest Missouri
Yoshihiro, what does your company do with the sawdust? Have you looked at wood pellet production at all? Just an idea for all of the sawdust left over.
Grow mushrooms would be my choice.
i would be happy working on the outside cut offs
Incredible!! So, do you know what the intended use(s) are for this gorgeous material, and were the slabs cut to varying thicknesses, and what were the thickness of the slabs, in inches please!!
I wondered how they were going to handle the torque caused by the almost complete cut. How to work around the inherently bad decision to use a verticle bandsaw. I assume the vertical blade is traditional. How many workers have tripped and fallen into the running blade?
That is so beautiful
That is one bad ass saw! What are its specifications?
its big
WOw - I would have loved on the slabs from this - I can only imagine that they are $$$$
I’m watching this and wishing I had a small slab for a new guitar body. Imagining how beautiful that would look.
Look for 'guitar blanks' on Ebay?
good job guys.....beautiful wood.
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That’s big big bucks there, nice walnut, 150 plus years old I’m sure
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I would want to utilize this lumber in the largest usable size. A giant conference table comes to mind and I don't mean a rectangular-shaped table. This tree has some beautiful grain. Were someone sitting at the resulting table happen to mar the table, I would shoot him/her.
i seen a slab of walnut size is 2"x28"x125" long sell for over $2,000 i cant manage how much one them slabs would sell for in USA
OMG that is gorgeous!
I would love a hope chest made of this.
I have a huge black walnut tree in my backyard. Come get it it’s yours.
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@@ysasada18 I’m in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I don’t suppose you’re very near ☺️