Built a bookshelf out of Walnut with a magazine rack on top way back in high school. Finished with simple boiled linseed oil. It looks better today than 35 years ago if that's possible. I've had a soft spot for walnut ever since. Slowly gathered quite a bit of antique Walnut furniture over the years. A couple of matching bedside tables are my favorites. Beautiful wood you have there! Neat sawmill too.
BEAUTIFUL wood! Man some day I want a black walnut coffee table from a piece like that, just gorgeous! You do some very nice work, looks like milling wood is enjoyable.
nice job . I could see the walnut boards you cut before you started this small job.each board is about 100 bucks each dried from places like rocklers.thank you for sharing.
This is the first time ive seen a lucas mill. took me minute to figure out what was going on, but its an interesting concept, getting dimensional boards right off the log. I think I prefer the bandsaw though, just for the fact you can get full width slabs out of it... Thanks for the video!
bishop5537 I also have the chainsaw bar attachment which allows me to take wider slabs than the Woodmizer bandmill. I do a lot of construction lumber and lumber for woodworking as well as slabs. Another attachment is the planner jig which allows me to smooth the slabs.
If I were you I'd save all that scrap wood and make things like ;; drinking glass coasters, chess boards, cutting boards, all kinds if things that sell very good at yard sells. or flea markets. great video
This rookie is thirsty to learn it all... You really inspore me to look further into being an arborist and more than just climbing a tree to cut cut. Thanks a ton, Glad you decided to start your channel. One question question that will really fire me up, at what age did you start working on trees and what age did you decide to become an arborist? were you the first generation on your family? Thanks a ton sir.
I was an avid rock climber first. Lived a year in a tent in Yosemite. Worked search and rescue, climbed big walls daily. Started my business at 19 but didn't really know what I was doing. A mentor tree climber took me under his wing and hired me to do his jobs. Working alongside an old lifer tree man inspired me. Went on to study hard and became a Certified Arborist over 30 years ago when that program first started. Kept it up for 43 years. Still in good shape, (not great shape, I'm old), but miles ahead of my friends from the young years. Hope this is something you take serious.
+arboristBlairGlenn Thanks for the reply. Yes im taking it very serious only thing is I started wrking on this since i was 14 for different tree companies.... but they were all doing contemporary work of tree companies not ARBORISTS. So im starting to slowly change my climbing methods and pruning. The transition is hard specially the mentality part of doing things right to save the trees, prune correctly and stay safe. Your vids are helping a lot. I just findnmy self a bit surrounded by a comunity or Tree people or "contractors" who think more about the money or how fast they are on a tree. You probably know what i mean. Any tips on close by events to start talking to more trained or certified people on the tree industry?
That is real nice. I do a lot of milling my self and black walnut and black acacia is in high demand right now. You should get the slaber attachment for your Lucas mill.
I do have it. I'm more into building furniture with the wood but do cut slabs from time to time. I have the planet as well that quickly switches out from the saw blade. Big slabs have more value but you have to have buyers ready or space to dry them. Whenever I dry outdoors, the powder post beetles attack the sap wood. Guess I could treat it. Thanks for commenting.
excellent. Am a climber of 30 years in the Industry I always try to make use of the wood, have a couple 150 yr old Cedar logs cured up out back among a few others. I'd take a scrap if ya got one even if it's enough for a dowel I will use it. Trade ya a plank lol
Aussie made mill. We had one of the 9" ones on our farm with the 5' slabbing attachment as well. They are a great mill as far as being portable. Biggest log we did was a redgum (Marri) 2.05m wide at the base and tapered up to 1.9m over 4m length. Marri is a beautiful timber.
I love the intro to your videos. The milling process is very interesting to me. I thought the wood went to a mill after you cut but you do it. I would bet you have some beautiful wood furniture in your home. I am off to google what is crotch wood and feathered crotch. 😊
Thanks Shelley, I appreciate all your comments. I have a LOT of videos to work through. With Covid, I hope I can keep your attention. Shooting for 1000 ! Intros, I have about a dozen that I pull out if I’m in a hurry but I like to do original intros as well. Milling is a lot of fun and I truly enjoy building furniture from the wood I harvest.
I'd keep that beautiful log the way it is and make it into a coffee table. Maybe polish the top, gloss it up. That right there would probably be like a $15,000 coffee table or more. Totally stunning? You sell them? Great video by the way.
black walnuts in my area are basically extinct....and if any exist, the land owner is not going to say anything. that is my first time to see such an amazing wood, you did really well on the cuts. good job!
dysfunctional vet this tree was owned by the City of Campbell and was on a development. They asked me if I wanted it and I did the job for free (just the wood).
seeing what you got out of it, i would have jumped on it as well. i will have to post a video of stuff i moved. i don't have a bobcat...okay a 4 footed one lives here with kittens last year, not this year, so i have to move things by hand. your log was such that i could never have worked it when i lived in the city. too few anchor points and code enforcement was nazistic to people that don't fit their desires. but that has changed now
black Walnut is very pretty. I have a Firewood Buisness and all the logs I get from a million is Black Walnut logs. they are cull logs that can't make Lumber. but it makes wonderful firewood.
Glen, Have you considered a wide bandmill built to sit in the lucas rails to simplify taking multiple slabs without turning or removing previously cut slabs? Lucas has a wide chainsaw slabber also.
we live near Sutter Creek, in a small development on 1.3 acre lots that were once a black walnut orchard. I had to cut one down. 3.5 yrs later I have now bought a Woodland Mills 22" band saw. It gets here on Dec 27. I had one log, 22"x70" cut by someone but it was taking Far too long and $$ so I made a calclulation and this mill will pay for itself in just the one log aleady milled to 3" slabs. The grain in it is like the tree shown here. I am drooling a lot but soon...And I have a nice 20foot aluminum trailer to put it on. I have 5 stumps to dig up next week too. And 3 more walnut trees to mill. Nice Christmas...
I owned a Woodmizer for 20 years. Now I have the Lucas mill. Recently helped a friend build a Woodland mill so I have access to use it. Sutter Creek is a nice area. I love the Gold Country. Brother had 200 acres near Plymouth and Fiddletown.
ive cut walnut for almost 2 decades as a high production sawyer for gunstocks, the big nastys on a 6 and 7 ft band. i like the lil circle but you lose alot of your width from what i see. nice video , thanks for sharing. check out sawmill sadness, sawing low grade black walnut for lumber, just squaring for a linebar. but i really love sawing logs for gunstocks!
OH MAN, THAT lS A GORGEOUS HUNK OF BLACK WALNUT YA GOT THERE. NlCE SET UP TO WORK lT TOO. LOOKlNG FORWARD TO THE NEXT VlDEO TO SEE WHAT YA WlND UP WlTH BLAlR. l GET THE FEELlNG lT'S GONNA BE GREAT!!!
We make gun stocks out of claro walnut. Its the high grade walnut for us and pricey!! Nice video, nice wood too. How deep of a cut can you get with that saw? I'm looking at building a log home and want D logs. If i can mill my own logs with a key-way top and bottom then i believe i can save money, plus using the trees there on the property.
Your table turned out great. With some epoxy those left over piece's would make a nice project, or paint a design picture on the bark. I bought a piece of bark that somebody painted, I Love It. It's a Beautiful piece!
HI Blair.....first just wanted to complement on the gorgeous Claro walnut and an amazing mill setup. Im located in Castaic CA and would love to somehow arrange a visit if OK with you as if always looking for a great source for live edge slabs...anyways, keep up the great artwork!
So this was before I got there based on the state of the log. Did you have second thoughts about the slab after I arrived. I know that, in the end, you went for the slab.
What a shame you dont have a band mill to get the table slabs. I like the Lucas for the dimensional but its so limited when you have a log that has several table slabs within.
Lucas has a slabber attachment. It cuts wider than a typical bandsaw mill, and you can do dimensional lumber as well. Only the biggest band saw mills could handle this log in any case.
arboristBlairGlenn Same here except it almost had to be called a 34 1/2" mill. They should have made the bed dogs removable or at least outside the cutting zone. Love the mill but there are a few little things that leave you scratching your head.
Thanks, An outfit up Northern Ca. About 12 k plus extras. Size of log? 22 feet by about 6 foot diameter. Put the supports up on stands and you could mill a 10 foot diameter log (scary).
That piece you cut off, right before "Who wants my scraps," and the piece directly under it. I DO! Would make the edges of a free-form bookmatched shelf or table. (Along with the 2 pieces cut off just before.) steve
Blair can you move the mill by yourself with no special equipment (hoist). Did you chose this mill for the price or mobility? Have you used a ban saw mill?
I had the Woodmizer bandsaw mill for about 10 years. Bought this mill about 20 years ago. Both mills are good. Yes, it breaks down so I can move it myself but help is easier. I can take the mill into a small backyard and carry out lumber.
There's a couple of the Maloof's in Las Vegas, Nevada, brothers who built a hotel & casino, would that be from the same clan? The reason I'm thinking of those two, I'm sure they had a few bucks and I'm thinking they inherited the mass of their wealth is because of the elder Maloof. Anyway, I just wanted to say your piece of 'art' there is quite unique, beautiful markings on that Walnut. Thank's for sharing this, I really do enjoy your videos.
As in a "self bow"? I played with different woods making bows. Even bought the bowers bible on how to do it. I have so much respect for native people who learned how to do this to survive! Lots of failures, a few okay bows, nothing worth showing.
John Lord black walnut can be used. I've been building selfbows for 6 or 7 years now. Mostly from osage orange wood but I've used many including black walnut. have found the heart wood to be a much better bow material than the sap wood.
Note the ridges, in this set up, 8 " over, flip the blade, 2 down then flip horizontal and do the next 8. I can only get one slab with this blade by flipping the log. Watch it again.
I'm always so very jealous of people in the US. Your continent has such vast resources of excellent timber, and at pretty reasonable prices. We stupidly cut down a lot of our great timber early on and now the good stuff is quite expensive.
East coast of Australia. All of our excellent native trees- Australian cedar, coachwood, hoop pine etc, all got logged very heavily in the 19th century, now they are in relatively short supply. It is available, but too expensive for the average person to use. The lumber was wasted in many ways. As an example, the house I grew up in had absolutely clear red cedar window frames that had been painted from day one and the house was clad in ironbark, which was overkill. The cladding did last well over 100 years though, many of those years with failing paint. Plantations have been started, but they'll take many years to produce.
+Sideslip the mill (Lucas), is an Australian mill. Contact the company over there and get the names of local sawyers. You will find good deals on wood if you go to a small sawyer.
+arboristBlairGlenn Not exactly what I mean. It seems like the blade can only cut a little less than half its diameter and the log is far wider. How did you cut all the way to other side of flat?
I have a black walnut here in ohio that has to be at least 3, or 4 hundred years old. Its trunk is 6 or 7 times the size of what you cut. was that the trunk or, limb? these limbs leaving the trunk are around that size. you think i should cut it down?
yeah guy. it got me into gardening. it produces like crazy so, I learned how to get the walnuts, make tinctures, etc. Also figured out why no asters or nightshades will grow near it. Should I tap it for syrup, or, you think that would hasten it's end? Addendum: After checking him out again, my first statement was exaggerated. Its big, but not as big as I previously thought. Also, a question for you, being one who may know; I've looked them up on multiple occasions but, they never look like mine. Usually, they are rather slender, tall trees that branch up high, while mine is more like, well, an oak or something that Branches out wide with many twisting branches. Is this typical for an older one or, is mine a freak?
Nice milling session glen. I'm about to start two maloof rockers as well,as some of his beautiful lowback dining chairs from walnut here in not too long. How could we go about contacting you for the lumber?
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Built a bookshelf out of Walnut with a magazine rack on top way back in high school. Finished with simple boiled linseed oil. It looks better today than 35 years ago if that's possible. I've had a soft spot for walnut ever since. Slowly gathered quite a bit of antique Walnut furniture over the years. A couple of matching bedside tables are my favorites. Beautiful wood you have there! Neat sawmill too.
I too love this species. In California, it's called Claro Walnut
I'd love a couple of slabs to make a counter top or table out of those beautiful slabs. Cool video, thanks. ~Dolly
Have to admit I watch this same video more than once. Beautiful wood! Beautiful mill.
This would make an awesome kitchen countertop, beautiful cabinet, Bedroom set, or anything!
Yes it will
But i watch this over and over. it's such beautiful wood.
Ronnie Pressley here is the playlist for my woodworking videos. Enjoy!
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I wish there were more walnut trees in my country. That wood is awesome!
Finishes beautiful!
Truly Awesome sharing here ! Its lovely to see the beauty in the Wood like this !
1BlueStarRising glad you enjoyed this. Are you a woodworker?
No, but I'm a wood lover ! :-)))
I have always loved wood and loved it in high school and in college.
me too
arboristBlairGlenn Would love to get my hands on some Walnut and work with it. Smells so good working with it.
Maloof was a genius! The most beautiful furniture.
I met him. Spent a day with him at his house. He said "I am not an artist, I am just a woodworker".
He was a humble genius! lol
BEAUTIFUL wood! Man some day I want a black walnut coffee table from a piece like that, just gorgeous! You do some very nice work, looks like milling wood is enjoyable.
Well, this slab is drying and is for sale. I'll take 900 now but it will be more when it's completely dry.
nice job . I could see the walnut boards you cut before you started this small job.each board is about 100 bucks each dried from places like rocklers.thank you for sharing.
Sam Maloof made a great looking hanging Black Walnut shelf. Hope you made something similar with all the wood you have.
toben42 still sitting on it waiting for it to dry. Met Sam, he took me on a tour of his facility. Amazing man, amazing craftsman.
That's a real pretty log!
Haji al Kidya
You could make great artwork pieces with this type of wood. Those dark rick colors lends itself to artwork!
You are right!
That is one of the most exceptional pieces of crotch figure I've ever seen in black walnut. Absolutely magnificent piece. Congratulations Glenn !
Gorgeous piece of wood!
I made a cedar chest in high school with 2 inch sold black walnut. It was expensive back then. Nice work here.
I'm not just drooling,im smacking my lips. That's some beautiful walnut.
Ronnie Pressley come and get it!
Glenn That is one awesome mill set up you got there!
This is the first time ive seen a lucas mill. took me minute to figure out what was going on, but its an interesting concept, getting dimensional boards right off the log. I think I prefer the bandsaw though, just for the fact you can get full width slabs out of it... Thanks for the video!
bishop5537 I also have the chainsaw bar attachment which allows me to take wider slabs than the Woodmizer bandmill. I do a lot of construction lumber and lumber for woodworking as well as slabs. Another attachment is the planner jig which allows me to smooth the slabs.
Absolutely drooling.
Ahh, it's only wood (right!)
Wish I still lived in CA. I'd take your scraps all day long. Make great wood turning projects.
If it's good enough for Sam Maloof is sure works for me. Beautiful walnut, lots going on in that log.
Good to see another Maloof fan
John Bare you will like these
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Beautiful grain! Awesome video as always, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for commenting
If I were you I'd save all that scrap wood and make things like ;; drinking glass coasters, chess boards, cutting boards, all kinds if things that sell very good at yard sells. or flea markets. great video
Only so much time in the day. Maybe when I retire, (if I retire)!
He would do the same as you, but he wants to make money.
amazingly beautiful piece of wood..
You got it!!! We are drooling and amazed with the wonderfulness of this wood!!! BINGO!!! :) :) :D
This rookie is thirsty to learn it all... You really inspore me to look further into being an arborist and more than just climbing a tree to cut cut. Thanks a ton, Glad you decided to start your channel. One question question that will really fire me up, at what age did you start working on trees and what age did you decide to become an arborist? were you the first generation on your family? Thanks a ton sir.
I was an avid rock climber first. Lived a year in a tent in Yosemite. Worked search and rescue, climbed big walls daily. Started my business at 19 but didn't really know what I was doing. A mentor tree climber took me under his wing and hired me to do his jobs. Working alongside an old lifer tree man inspired me. Went on to study hard and became a Certified Arborist over 30 years ago when that program first started. Kept it up for 43 years. Still in good shape, (not great shape, I'm old), but miles ahead of my friends from the young years. Hope this is something you take serious.
+arboristBlairGlenn Thanks for the reply. Yes im taking it very serious only thing is I started wrking on this since i was 14 for different tree companies.... but they were all doing contemporary work of tree companies not ARBORISTS. So im starting to slowly change my climbing methods and pruning. The transition is hard specially the mentality part of doing things right to save the trees, prune correctly and stay safe. Your vids are helping a lot. I just findnmy self a bit surrounded by a comunity or Tree people or "contractors" who think more about the money or how fast they are on a tree. You probably know what i mean. Any tips on close by events to start talking to more trained or certified people on the tree industry?
+Red Axe - Tree service & Landscaping - start by joining the ISA. They list events. Where do you live?
beautiful piece of wood for sure and love your portable mill saw !
Milling is always fun
That is real nice. I do a lot of milling my self and black walnut and black acacia is in high demand right now. You should get the slaber attachment for your Lucas mill.
I do have it. I'm more into building furniture with the wood but do cut slabs from time to time. I have the planet as well that quickly switches out from the saw blade. Big slabs have more value but you have to have buyers ready or space to dry them. Whenever I dry outdoors, the powder post beetles attack the sap wood. Guess I could treat it. Thanks for commenting.
+arboristBlairGlenn planer
Those are just what i need for my new bookcase
excellent. Am a climber of 30 years in the Industry I always try to make use of the wood, have a couple 150 yr old Cedar logs cured up out back among a few others. I'd take a scrap if ya got one even if it's enough for a dowel I will use it. Trade ya a plank lol
Don't let the logs sit around too long. They degrade pretty fast
that sure is some beautiful wood!!! You've really been blessed with that log!!!!
Bobby Baldeagle thanks, now I need some serious shop time
Aussie made mill. We had one of the 9" ones on our farm with the 5' slabbing attachment as well. They are a great mill as far as being portable. Biggest log we did was a redgum (Marri) 2.05m wide at the base and tapered up to 1.9m over 4m length. Marri is a beautiful timber.
pudzta we have about a dozen varieties of Eucalyptus in California
i used to do small damson and cherry , it was beautiful wood... the walnut you have there is also stunning !! cheers from uk
Not familiar with damson?
absolutely stunning
Thanks
Great video! I would gladly take the scraps for pen/knife handle blanks.
Come on over
I sent you and email to the address on the STS website to set up a time. Thanks, Nate
I have a Carvin guitar made from black walnut. This stuff fascinates me!
i'll take some scraps from that log ! and your old blades nice
Go buy a horizontal band saw(ie. Woodmizer) or have someone custom cut such a great piece o wood.
I love the intro to your videos. The milling process is very interesting to me. I thought the wood went to a mill after you cut but you do it. I would bet you have some beautiful wood furniture in your home. I am off to google what is crotch wood and feathered crotch. 😊
Thanks Shelley, I appreciate all your comments. I have a LOT of videos to work through. With Covid, I hope I can keep your attention. Shooting for 1000 ! Intros, I have about a dozen that I pull out if I’m in a hurry but I like to do original intros as well. Milling is a lot of fun and I truly enjoy building furniture from the wood I harvest.
arboristBlairGlenn Please do a video on all your furniture. 😊
Shelley P I have shown some of my work in a few videos but that is really going off track a bit. Building a large tool chest now.
I'd keep that beautiful log the way it is and make it into a coffee table. Maybe polish the top, gloss it up. That right there would probably be like a $15,000 coffee table or more. Totally stunning? You sell them? Great video by the way.
Arturo Garza it would split
My mistake, that was a pretty big piece. Maybe half of that size. Nice work. 👍🏼 Black walnut wood is stunning.
Awesome gun stock material I am a furniture maker. Love your video.
Thanks Jack. I wish I had more shop time.
es hermoso el trabajo que hacen con la madera , un sueño para decorar y alegrar el ambiente del hogar.
black walnuts in my area are basically extinct....and if any exist, the land owner is not going to say anything. that is my first time to see such an amazing wood, you did really well on the cuts. good job!
dysfunctional vet this tree was owned by the City of Campbell and was on a development. They asked me if I wanted it and I did the job for free (just the wood).
seeing what you got out of it, i would have jumped on it as well. i will have to post a video of stuff i moved. i don't have a bobcat...okay a 4 footed one lives here with kittens last year, not this year, so i have to move things by hand. your log was such that i could never have worked it when i lived in the city. too few anchor points and code enforcement was nazistic to people that don't fit their desires. but that has changed now
black Walnut is very pretty. I have a Firewood Buisness and all the logs I get from a million is Black Walnut logs. they are cull logs that can't make Lumber. but it makes wonderful firewood.
I don't burn walnut much
arboristBlairGlenn makes alot of ash
Thank nature for her beauty.
Jefferey Blagus it all goes back into the earth unless you can stop the process.
Great video! I subscribed for the arborist videos, but this stuff is fascinating.
Woodworking, milling working in trees--still all about the trees!
Wood really is amazing, in all stages of development
Glen, Have you considered a wide bandmill built to sit in the lucas rails to simplify taking multiple slabs without turning or removing previously cut slabs? Lucas has a wide chainsaw slabber also.
johnnybarbar I have the chain slab cutter but an additional unit that is a bandmill is an interesting idea
That is a gorgeous tree. I bet the furniture people came running for some of that stock.
Not yet
we live near Sutter Creek, in a small development on 1.3 acre lots that were once a black walnut orchard. I had to cut one down. 3.5 yrs later I have now bought a Woodland Mills 22" band saw. It gets here on Dec 27. I had one log, 22"x70" cut by someone but it was taking Far too long and $$ so I made a calclulation and this mill will pay for itself in just the one log aleady milled to 3" slabs. The grain in it is like the tree shown here. I am drooling a lot but soon...And I have a nice 20foot aluminum trailer to put it on. I have 5 stumps to dig up next week too. And 3 more walnut trees to mill. Nice Christmas...
I owned a Woodmizer for 20 years. Now I have the Lucas mill. Recently helped a friend build a Woodland mill so I have access to use it. Sutter Creek is a nice area. I love the Gold Country. Brother had 200 acres near Plymouth and Fiddletown.
ive cut walnut for almost 2 decades as a high production sawyer for gunstocks, the big nastys on a 6 and 7 ft band. i like the lil circle but you lose alot of your width from what i see. nice video , thanks for sharing. check out sawmill sadness, sawing low grade black walnut for lumber, just squaring for a linebar. but i really love sawing logs for gunstocks!
z lindauer you are right. A band mill saves wood. I just do small scale jobs for myself. I dont mill for production any more
z lindauer
OH MAN, THAT lS A GORGEOUS HUNK OF BLACK WALNUT YA GOT THERE. NlCE SET UP TO WORK lT TOO. LOOKlNG FORWARD TO THE NEXT VlDEO TO SEE WHAT YA WlND UP WlTH BLAlR. l GET THE FEELlNG lT'S GONNA BE GREAT!!!
Just taking one slab
We make gun stocks out of claro walnut. Its the high grade walnut for us and pricey!! Nice video, nice wood too. How deep of a cut can you get with that saw? I'm looking at building a log home and want D logs. If i can mill my own logs with a key-way top and bottom then i believe i can save money, plus using the trees there on the property.
Lee Hilton
Your table turned out great. With some epoxy those left over piece's would make a nice project, or paint a design picture on the bark. I bought a piece of bark that somebody painted, I Love It. It's a Beautiful piece!
HI Blair.....first just wanted to complement on the gorgeous Claro walnut and an amazing mill setup. Im located in Castaic CA and would love to somehow arrange a visit if OK with you as if always looking for a great source for live edge slabs...anyways, keep up the great artwork!
So this was before I got there based on the state of the log. Did you have second thoughts about the slab after I arrived. I know that, in the end, you went for the slab.
Nope, still waiting to finish it
What a shame you dont have a band mill to get the table slabs. I like the Lucas for the dimensional but its so limited when you have a log that has several table slabs within.
Lucas has a slabber attachment. It cuts wider than a typical bandsaw mill, and you can do dimensional lumber as well. Only the biggest band saw mills could handle this log in any case.
manoahouse I have it as well but you need lumber to build furniture
BT I now have a 36" capacity wood mizer
arboristBlairGlenn Same here except it almost had to be called a 34 1/2" mill. They should have made the bed dogs removable or at least outside the cutting zone. Love the mill but there are a few little things that leave you scratching your head.
i like your mill, where did you buy it at, average cost, how big of a piece of lumber can you cut with it?
thanks
love your video's
Thanks, An outfit up Northern Ca. About 12 k plus extras. Size of log? 22 feet by about 6 foot diameter. Put the supports up on stands and you could mill a 10 foot diameter log (scary).
I will take your scraps! A lot of them would make great guitar necks.
Gorgeous wood! Those scraps can make some nice knife handles I think :)
Come and get them!
:) Thank you, but I live some 20 000 km east of California.
Bob Vila approves of this music.
so beautiful.
those scraps still looked great
I have people going through my scraps. I give them away
arboristBlairGlenn I would be going through them myself
I wish I could have been there........ just to smell the fresh cut walnut....mmmmmm!
That piece you cut off, right before
"Who wants my scraps," and the piece directly under it.
I DO!
Would make the edges of a free-form bookmatched
shelf or table. (Along with the 2 pieces cut off just before.)
steve
I'll give it to you if you come and take it
Blair can you move the mill by yourself with no special equipment (hoist). Did you chose this mill for the price or mobility? Have you used a ban saw mill?
I had the Woodmizer bandsaw mill for about 10 years. Bought this mill about 20 years ago. Both mills are good. Yes, it breaks down so I can move it myself but help is easier. I can take the mill into a small backyard and carry out lumber.
Very pretty wood. I'd cut some nice square lengths for table legs to go with it.
Might just do that
BT aT About 11.49 he showed us a nice slab this is beautiful wood that only US older folk appreciate now days wonder what its gonna become????
enjoyed the vid and only wished I was closer to get some scarp lol
Awesome revolver grips!
El Desgraciado that it would br
Beautiful!
You're an Artist.
Please invest in some shin-guards or prtoective equipment for your legs, this makes me nervous!
Not really an issue of safety but thanks.
How much would a 1x8x8 black walnut shrink after milling? I would be air drying the wood. I’m trying to mill some for my truck bed. Thank you
Mark Lindsey 8” x 8’? Expect about a quarter inch in width
that is sheer beauty...
I bought some black walnut from a guy recently but mine is much lighter than that. Is that what it looks like fresh
Keith Dugas on the west coast, our black walnut is much darker than Eastern Black Walnut. English Walnut is lighter still.
When you're pulling it back what's to stop that thing from grabing the wood and taking a run at you, like in a climb cut on a miter saw?
If it grabs(and sometimes it does), the belt stops and the blade jams in the cut.
yes i was drooling and I would go grab those scraps if I were closer lol
There's a couple of the Maloof's in Las Vegas, Nevada, brothers who built a hotel & casino, would that be from the same clan? The reason I'm thinking of those two, I'm sure they had a few bucks and I'm thinking they inherited the mass of their wealth is because of the elder Maloof. Anyway, I just wanted to say your piece of 'art' there is quite unique, beautiful markings on that Walnut. Thank's for sharing this, I really do enjoy your videos.
That looks like excellent material. Just wish Janka rating, bend and shatter index was higher for wood bow material.
As in a "self bow"? I played with different woods making bows. Even bought the bowers bible on how to do it. I have so much respect for native people who learned how to do this to survive! Lots of failures, a few okay bows, nothing worth showing.
John Lord black walnut can be used. I've been building selfbows for 6 or 7 years now. Mostly from osage orange wood but I've used many including black walnut. have found the heart wood to be a much better bow material than the sap wood.
Now you're drooling lol.
Great tool. How are you able to get such a wide cut? Thanks for the video. You need some sort of gantry crane setup to manipulate the log.
Note the ridges, in this set up, 8 " over, flip the blade, 2 down then flip horizontal and do the next 8. I can only get one slab with this blade by flipping the log. Watch it again.
+arboristBlairGlenn - So a 2x8 is end result. Can it take a bigger blade so as to increase the width of the board?
+Duncan “DunMac” Mac best I can do is an 8x8. If I switch to the slabbing bar, then slabs all the way
I'm always so very jealous of people in the US. Your continent has such vast resources of excellent timber, and at pretty reasonable prices.
We stupidly cut down a lot of our great timber early on and now the good stuff is quite expensive.
I'm sorry you have a shortage of good wood. Where are you from?
East coast of Australia. All of our excellent native trees- Australian cedar, coachwood, hoop pine etc, all got logged very heavily in the 19th century, now they are in relatively short supply. It is available, but too expensive for the average person to use.
The lumber was wasted in many ways. As an example, the house I grew up in had absolutely clear red cedar window frames that had been painted from day one and the house was clad in ironbark, which was overkill. The cladding did last well over 100 years though, many of those years with failing paint.
Plantations have been started, but they'll take many years to produce.
+Sideslip the mill (Lucas), is an Australian mill. Contact the company over there and get the names of local sawyers. You will find good deals on wood if you go to a small sawyer.
have you tried cutting camphor Laurel
I like the intro Music.
I LIke scraps!
You would be amazed at what gets thrown out at a small mill. Find one close by
it's beautiful wood.
How do you get a cut that is twice the blade depth? Nice looking wood. Love it.
Keep cutting, get one flat surface. Flip the log, mill down to get second flat surface for a slab
+arboristBlairGlenn Not exactly what I mean. It seems like the blade can only cut a little less than half its diameter and the log is far wider. How did you cut all the way to other side of flat?
+phooesnax blade flips, keep incrementing over. Think you need to watch again
beautiful log.
Very
I have a black walnut here in ohio that has to be at least 3, or 4 hundred years old. Its trunk is 6 or 7 times the size of what you cut. was that the trunk or, limb? these limbs leaving the trunk are around that size. you think i should cut it down?
ShockTroop a 3 or 4 hundred year old tree deserves respect. This tree had to go for a development. I never cut a tree unless it has to go
yeah guy. it got me into gardening. it produces like crazy so, I learned how to get the walnuts, make tinctures, etc. Also figured out why no asters or nightshades will grow near it. Should I tap it for syrup, or, you think that would hasten it's end?
Addendum: After checking him out again, my first statement was exaggerated. Its big, but not as big as I previously thought.
Also, a question for you, being one who may know;
I've looked them up on multiple occasions but, they never look like mine. Usually, they are rather slender, tall trees that branch up high, while mine is more like, well, an oak or something that Branches out wide with many twisting branches. Is this typical for an older one or, is mine a freak?
ShockTroop least amount of damage is advisable. Never heard of walnut syrup
yes I was drooling
Me too Brendan. Beautiful piece.
Me too! Glorious, glorious piece.
Nice milling session glen. I'm about to start two maloof rockers as well,as some of his beautiful lowback dining chairs from walnut here in not too long. How could we go about contacting you for the lumber?
I met Sam Maloof and he took me on a private tour of his place before it was moved. He is an inspiration for me
blairglenn@gmail.com
I love that wood
Thanks for the video really enjoyed it :)
You a woodworker?
+arboristBlairGlenn I am, just taking a woodworking technician course in Canada.
+Shane Preiss you're hooked now!
+Shane Preiss Here is a video that all woodworkers will enjoy
ua-cam.com/video/3Ecetg1B7y4/v-deo.html
gorgeous bit of timber mate
Thanks Greg
I would love some scraps. They would make some nice pens. Where in Cali are you?
Extremely nice. I'll be looking for the follow up videos.
I need help to move the slab when I cut it
Hahaa if you was closer to me id surely take them scraps! :p Some of it is buyable scrap! Damn :) Nice piece of wood buddy!
Great video. I would love to take some scrap for knife handle making. If I payed for it would you consider shipping?
ibanez7627 sure, send me your address to blairglenn@gmail.com
How is that knife coming?
Waiting for a reply on that knife you promised me
Love your stuff and it is a great log. If you have many like this have you considered a band-saw mill? Thank you for sharing, Steve
I had a Wood Miser for years. I can still use it but I like how this unit works.
Nice wood for a rifle stock ;)
How beautiful! what would a slab with live edge for a table cost of this type? Thanks for the great videos
BairCichlids thousands