Really beautiful slabs, also thank you for showing us your accidents. That helps teach more than successes do. We all make them but it helps to see them beforehand. Keep up the good videos.
Beautiful work. You are really pushing that mill to the limit. Thanks for posting. Sycamore would be really pretty, since it would show that lacy quarter grain in the middle of the slab.
That is pretty cool. I love a live edge myself. :) Trying to cut some oak branches currently and it is proving to be very difficult. I have tried several different saws and the branch isn't that thick. I can touch my fingers around it. I even had my neighbor try with his sawzall that he uses to cut into metal. :P It was faster but even then was really difficult. The wood was so hot I could hardly touch it and there were burn marks left behind. This is my first time trying to cut oak branches into little slabs so I really have no clue why it is turning out to be so hard to do. That's why I am searching UA-cam and I found your video. - Heidi
The flat edge could be placed against a wall with the live edge open air for some kind of breakfast bar or other type bar or table extending out from a wall.
Nice i built a coffee table out of an oval slab of oak , it was green when it was milled and i dried it for 2 years before i flattened it with the router has a lovely section of burl at one end
I'm just about to try this on my Woodmizer LT15. I have two big red elm logs that have been sitting for at least a year. These logs are 22" dia, and have big fluting. I wonder if the flat end slabs could be matched up and joint to make one complete Oval slab?
I really like the resulting grain pattern. I would use the ones with one straight end for small rectangular end table or night stands or even book matched and edge glued you could make some very interesting larger table tops.
I have a Western Red Cedar log. 6+ (7'8" at widest root flange) foot base 4+ foot top 20 foot long. Thinking I can get some awesome conference tables out of it
For the slabs with a flat edge you can cut a curve with chainsaw or jigsaw then clean them up with a grinder. Just a thought, New subbie today great video. Thanks, Going to try this it our mill
Awesome slabs! I've got a Norwood too but never have tried this. Seems like the flat ends of the slabs could be butt-ended together for a nice bar top or table kinda book matched style?
You can make a waterfall edge end grain table or center island depending on wood size etc. it's a way to add more of the awesome grain and extra high end style
Those flat edge pieces would make great signs or address markers standing on end in front of a house. Edit: wish i had seen this 4 years ago, that idea might have been helpful back then, lol.
Hey man just wondering you have though exporting these and if so how much would you charge per oval slab? Also those half cuts could look cool set in concrete upright, still trying to of othe uses. Cheers for video mate
I have a 5 foot western red cedar log 20 feet long and want to do this. Conference tables for big corporations. The tree was 7'6" at base cut, maybe 300 years old.
My idea on the flat end, make corners. What ever angle, a 90 degree (total angle of coutertop direction) or a multiple 45 degree turn around a nook or separation in a bar or restaraunt.
This type of cut was popular on eighteenth century French furniture. In that case, they sawed it into veneers. They have a name for the method. It's called, "sausage-cut." Sausage-cut was most commonly done with kingwood and bloodwood. The furniture they built with that wood is quite an eye full.
@@falfas55bgas Imagine a spiral stairway with those. the natural taper would fit the curve. Would look next level. Not easy but if possible... amazing!
Go to hobby lobby get the wood cutout letters do some layout trace the letters with a shape marker rout out the letters and put on three coats of varnish you will be amazed how beautiful bit will looks I should know I've been making a living at it for 20+ years good luck
I would quarter each slab and butt them with opposing grain probably with biscuits and underbracing with legs for an interesting table ect. Because the flat ends just suck if they aren't in the center. with joints offset.
Live edges are fine and all, but this makes me curious about what it would be like to work with diagonally cut dimensioned lumber. Brings a whole new wrinkle to the old flat sawn versus quarter sawn debate. -jcr
the lumber would have a tendancy to split apart and not be good for supporting weight as it would not have any continuos grain or fibers running the langth of the boards would have interesting look though and would possibly be nice for decritive face boards.
nice cool trick. I am doing some research on bandsawmills as well and I am almost certain I want a Norwood to. about the idea you asked for. you could make chairs out of them the the straight end attached to the bottom plate you sit on. would look pretty sweet o think. maybe with a nice kind of art pattern cut in there. or sell them to artist or flowershops they unusually love theese kind of board to make like a flowerpiece on them to sell duuring Christmas or whatever. or make a fancy looking fence out of them! cut them in smaller planks like 2 inch wide. and then put them together as a fence with a space of 3 inches between them or so. you would see a nice curved art fence then if you get what I mean. hope this helps.
David Patterson 1 second ago I have a Logosol chainsaw mill with a piece of black cherry on it. I have one end up as the guy said with the Norwood. The difference is I will have to cut low to high. He cuts high to low with the bandsaw mill. Tomorrow is 2/7/18 we'll see what happens. I also will be using a rip chain. Reply
I don't think there is any strength in a cut like this but taking the thinnest slice you can possibly achieve and boiling them, then press them into curve "S" shaped moulded jigs and let them set. Would make beautiful curved furniture, wardrobe doors, fine chest of drawers, head and footboards for beds, specialized secondary floor coverings, boil and bend them for decorative interior archways, all furniture for log homes with a bit of upholstery for comfort, spiral stair cases or cover existing stairs with thin laminate glued down, Funky table tops, novelty chess board's, alternative decking and walkways around a house and garden, cut them thinner run a jigsaw up them freehand ripped to about 2 or 3 inch strips would make gorgeous outdoor decking furniture and fling some cushions onto them, garden swing seats hung from a tree branch with thick rope, funky massive roof shingles just make them thinner and half them, hobbit play sheds for kids could be made, Big kids like us could go crazy with this style of timber lol. Depending on the strength of this cut you could do amazing timber works. Enchanted Forrest furniture hobbit style furniture garden furniture the list is massive. Hope I've opened more ideas. Good luck.
THE FIRST COUPLE PIECES WOULD MAKE GREAT SIGNS,,,, THEY POINT THE DIRECTION TO GO IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN,, THE 3 FOOTERS WOULD MAKE NICE SPIRAL STAIR TREADS.. I DO A SHIT LOAD OF FUNKY WORK.. MAKE IT UP AS YA GO!! ALOHA..
+Into The Dirtshop Sure you could if you wanted to. Getting started however might be a bit tricky as you don't have full support on the log itself to make the first cut. With some thinking it's possible.
I have a Logosol chainsaw mill with a piece of black cherry on it. I have one end up as the guy said with the Norwood. The difference is I will have to cut low to high. He cuts high to low with the bandsaw mill. Tomorrow is 2/7/18 we'll see what happens. I also will be using a rip chain.
Really beautiful slabs, also thank you for showing us your accidents. That helps teach more than successes do. We all make them but it helps to see them beforehand. Keep up the good videos.
I've had a Norwood mill for 12 years and love it.
I love the idea I see the slices with the flat end as the back to a chair and also the base to sit on just round the other end
Great backgrounds for mounting a big fish!
Wonderful work, especially the aesthetic aspect of nature
So many cool tables that can be made with this cut! Love this video!
I love the slabs! Think you could make a bunch of awesome side and end tables with them! I could watch these videos all day! Keep up the good work!
If you let the whole log season before you mill it black cherry is fantastic. It doesn't warp and turns out beautifully.
Beautiful work. You are really pushing that mill to the limit. Thanks for posting. Sycamore would be really pretty, since it would show that lacy quarter grain in the middle of the slab.
Sign boards? Sell them to sign shops? CNC router graphics into them and inlet.
Great idea! Should find a market!
Great idea, I love the look!
Those flat end pieces would make very nice viking chairs. I'll be giving it a shot on my HD36 when it shows up.
Did you get the HD36? I've been thinking of getting one just because it's upgradeable.
That is pretty cool. I love a live edge myself. :) Trying to cut some oak branches currently and it is proving to be very difficult. I have tried several different saws and the branch isn't that thick. I can touch my fingers around it. I even had my neighbor try with his sawzall that he uses to cut into metal. :P It was faster but even then was really difficult. The wood was so hot I could hardly touch it and there were burn marks left behind. This is my first time trying to cut oak branches into little slabs so I really have no clue why it is turning out to be so hard to do. That's why I am searching UA-cam and I found your video. - Heidi
Those are beautiful slabs.
What are the dogs you are using to hold the at log up? Awesome work brother!!
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That's awesome, I've always wanted to know how that cuts were made, thanks for sharing
Black Tail Studios needs a few of those to see how inventive he could be in making a table out of them.
Those are awesome. Wish that I had a way to get a few and something to do with them.... WOW!!!!
Wow super cool!
The end cuts can be epoxy or rosin coated and stabilized and used for wall art and clock's or other.?????
The flat edge could be placed against a wall with the live edge open air for some kind of breakfast bar or other type bar or table extending out from a wall.
excellent choice of wood. nice idea
Well done. Those shorter square edged slabs would make great end tables on either end of a couch with an oval slabbed coffee table. Oh yeah!
Nice i built a coffee table out of an oval slab of oak , it was green when it was milled and i dried it for 2 years before i flattened it with the router has a lovely section of burl at one end
I'm not sure how practical it would be, but a finely polished surfboard would be beautiful!
I do not surf but that is what it looked like to me.
I'm just about to try this on my Woodmizer LT15. I have two big red elm logs that have been sitting for at least a year. These logs are 22" dia, and have big fluting. I wonder if the flat end slabs could be matched up and joint to make one complete Oval slab?
For the slabs with flat edges, you can do elongated book-match slabs by splitting the thickness into 2 pieces.
4:40 shot looks like you are at a surf board shop. nice video thanks for sharing.
There is an awesome bar top in the future of a couple of these slabs, Nice job!
Put flat end to end and inlay a walnut bow tie to them together for longer oval. Nice work!
Is it possible to stop the saw in the tipping point cut and screw a prop onto the end of the log to finish that cut?
I really like the resulting grain pattern. I would use the ones with one straight end for small rectangular end table or night stands or even book matched and edge glued you could make some very interesting larger table tops.
That would be so cool as a longboard skateboard or a surfboard
I have a Western Red Cedar log. 6+ (7'8" at widest root flange) foot base 4+ foot top 20 foot long. Thinking I can get some awesome conference tables out of it
For the slabs with a flat edge you can cut a curve with chainsaw or jigsaw then clean them up with a grinder. Just a thought, New subbie today great video. Thanks, Going to try this it our mill
Should make some really interesting looking coffee table tops!
Awesome slabs! I've got a Norwood too but never have tried this. Seems like the flat ends of the slabs could be butt-ended together for a nice bar top or table kinda book matched style?
YES with a piece of wood in the middle to tie it together. Would look like it was booked.
Lovely!
You can make a waterfall edge end grain table or center island depending on wood size etc. it's a way to add more of the awesome grain and extra high end style
Born and raised in Eastern Colorado (Peyton). What area was this in? I recognize Pikes Peak to the southwest of your filming location.
That's a great idea.
Good idea,good work....Congratulations from brasil.
nice work mate.
Flat edge slabs might make a nice breakfast bar.
what would be a decent price for a slab like that
Those flat edge pieces would make great signs or address markers standing on end in front of a house.
Edit: wish i had seen this 4 years ago, that idea might have been helpful back then, lol.
this video was pretty informative I have wanted to try and cut some ovals I just wasn't sure how to do that.
Hey man just wondering you have though exporting these and if so how much would you charge per oval slab? Also those half cuts could look cool set in concrete upright, still trying to of othe uses. Cheers for video mate
I have done that with red cedar and it makes beautiful clocks
I have a 5 foot western red cedar log 20 feet long and want to do this. Conference tables for big corporations. The tree was 7'6" at base cut, maybe 300 years old.
what angle are you setting them at?
My idea on the flat end, make corners. What ever angle, a 90 degree (total angle of coutertop direction) or a multiple 45 degree turn around a nook or separation in a bar or restaraunt.
This type of cut was popular on eighteenth century French furniture. In that case, they sawed it into veneers. They have a name for the method. It's called, "sausage-cut." Sausage-cut was most commonly done with kingwood and bloodwood. The furniture they built with that wood is quite an eye full.
mirror ends join the flat ends together, for dynamic looks; contrast butterfly joint.
You can make benches out of this. Cool video.
What do you do with the damaged blades - do they have any further value repurposed to another use at your own worksite or are they scrap?
Don Challenger they make good filet knife blades
Flat end pieces would be great to make into a staircase against a wall.
Do you mean as the stair treads?
@@falfas55bgas Imagine a spiral stairway with those. the natural taper would fit the curve. Would look next level. Not easy but if possible... amazing!
Seeing them all lined up in a row reminds me of the beach..???
On your flat end slabs... miter cut (or "A" notch) the flat ends to form a circle... awesome (place your use here) round table...
Go to hobby lobby get the wood cutout letters do some layout trace the letters with a shape marker rout out the letters and put on three coats of varnish you will be amazed how beautiful bit will looks I should know I've been making a living at it for 20+ years good luck
Nice work
3:50 you know someone called PETA on you for that one 😆
Nice surfboard
Cuz elm is a super hard wood once it starts to dry so anything that has started to cure would be great for what your doing
great Job buddy...a buddy of mine cuts mesquite wood.
Perfect for signs
but how do you get that oval look in your intro?
coffee tables, end tables for the smaller ones that have flat cut on one end...
beautiful
I would quarter each slab and butt them with opposing grain probably with biscuits and underbracing with legs for an interesting table ect. Because the flat ends just suck if they aren't in the center. with joints offset.
Nice wall mount
was that a band saw blade or chain saw blade? either way those are some nice slabs, thanks for sharing
+ernesto cuevas Band saw blade on this mill
Live edges are fine and all, but this makes me curious about what it would be like to work with diagonally cut dimensioned lumber. Brings a whole new wrinkle to the old flat sawn versus quarter sawn debate.
-jcr
the lumber would have a tendancy to split apart and not be good for supporting weight as it would not have any continuos grain or fibers running the langth of the boards would have interesting look though and would possibly be nice for decritive face boards.
muito muito bom se tivesse aqui no Brasil,era dinheiro certo.varios tampos rusticos de mesa
there is 2 kinds of wood that i'd like you cut in the same way, is the teak wood and black ebony
nice work ...
The flat end pieces can be book matched into coffee tables.
could you have put a floor jack under the back end of the log so it would not tip?
thought the same thing,
nice cool trick. I am doing some research on bandsawmills as well and I am almost certain I want a Norwood to. about the idea you asked for. you could make chairs out of them the the straight end attached to the bottom plate you sit on. would look pretty sweet o think. maybe with a nice kind of art pattern cut in there. or sell them to artist or flowershops they unusually love theese kind of board to make like a flowerpiece on them to sell duuring Christmas or whatever. or make a fancy looking fence out of them! cut them in smaller planks like 2 inch wide. and then put them together as a fence with a space of 3 inches between them or so. you would see a nice curved art fence then if you get what I mean. hope this helps.
Norwood makes great mills-- never let me down, but this guy pushes it to the limit.
Do you sell the oval slabs, if so at what price?
Flat edged off cuts make great log chair backs.
Big saw cut mortice and tennon joint at 28 degrees into a large log stump.
David Patterson
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I have a Logosol chainsaw mill with a piece of black cherry on it. I have one end up as the guy said with the Norwood. The difference is I will have to cut low to high. He cuts high to low with the bandsaw mill. Tomorrow is 2/7/18 we'll see what happens. I also will be using a rip chain.
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those half slabs would make nice chair backs
Always look forward to your videos. You quit posting?
Joint two short flat ends to make one long oval ends top.
Wow Cool!
Hey guys; my Budweiser beer bottle would sit on those slabs really nice. Can you send a couple to me.
Attie Jonker Can do this cut. I am very satisfied with his work ;-]]
The bigger flat edge pieces would go good for a food bar against the wall.
I don't think there is any strength in a cut like this but taking the thinnest slice you can possibly achieve and boiling them, then press them into curve "S" shaped moulded jigs and let them set. Would make beautiful curved furniture, wardrobe doors, fine chest of drawers, head and footboards for beds, specialized secondary floor coverings, boil and bend them for decorative interior archways, all furniture for log homes with a bit of upholstery for comfort, spiral stair cases or cover existing stairs with thin laminate glued down, Funky table tops, novelty chess board's, alternative decking and walkways around a house and garden, cut them thinner run a jigsaw up them freehand ripped to about 2 or 3 inch strips would make gorgeous outdoor decking furniture and fling some cushions onto them, garden swing seats hung from a tree branch with thick rope, funky massive roof shingles just make them thinner and half them, hobbit play sheds for kids could be made, Big kids like us could go crazy with this style of timber lol. Depending on the strength of this cut you could do amazing timber works. Enchanted Forrest furniture hobbit style furniture garden furniture the list is massive. Hope I've opened more ideas. Good luck.
How can I buy a slab like that?
THE FIRST COUPLE PIECES WOULD MAKE GREAT SIGNS,,,, THEY POINT THE DIRECTION TO GO IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN,, THE 3 FOOTERS WOULD MAKE NICE SPIRAL STAIR TREADS.. I DO A SHIT LOAD OF FUNKY WORK.. MAKE IT UP AS YA GO!! ALOHA..
Cool
Dude... awesome video something different
That is to cool
nice
you can make wooden surf boards, some slabs have the good shape
surfboards!
cut the square end off, fasten it vertical add legs to other end
Could you do this with a chainsaw mill?
+Into The Dirtshop Sure you could if you wanted to. Getting started however might be a bit tricky as you don't have full support on the log itself to make the first cut. With some thinking it's possible.
I have a Logosol chainsaw mill with a piece of black cherry on it. I have one end up as the guy said with the Norwood. The difference is I will have to cut low to high. He cuts high to low with the bandsaw mill. Tomorrow is 2/7/18 we'll see what happens. I also will be using a rip chain.
Nice work. It's too bad it cost you two blades, though.
stupidity cost him 2 blades you mean
I have a grest use for those slabs, you can ship them to Denmark so i can make somthing out of them ;-) "wink wink"
FAR OUT-- Natural surf boards