Black Locust - It aint just for fence posts anymore - Page 3

Black Locust - It aint just for fence posts anymore · 10-25-2009, 10:04 PM

Here's another table I'm working on for the front porch, it's Quarter Sawn Black Locust HARD wood, it sure is pretty though... This wood about worked me silly, it burns real easy and had to progressive sanding fom 20 grit to 220 grit. I sanded every piece. It's silky smooth now and hard as a rock... The top is 7/8 x 28 x 28 and it stands 25" tall. Since it's for outside, I used water proof glue and will make the drawer out of ERC and the drawer runner out of WO. Should last a little while, I know he bugs won't eat it.

Nice job on the Kiln Drying Scott

Finish sanded to 220 and first seal coat.

Thanks

Jeff Mills · 11-04-2009, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by FredP

uh huh! the only way to keep flat sawn locust strait is to park a truck on it.

Fred if I were a board and had a hot tub one one side of me and the outdoors on the other side - I might not know how to behave either

FredP · 11-04-2009, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by Jeff Mills

Fred if I were a board and had a hot tub one one side of me and the outdoors on the other side - I might not know how to behave either

ya think?

Mike Stanley · 11-04-2009, 08:35 AM

Several years ago I came upon a couple of fellas trying to drop this huge huge sweet gum over this woman's house. The tractor they had attached to it wasn't doing much either. So, like a nut, I turned in and took out my "Steel" chain saw with the three foot bar and cut them a notch in the correct fashion and the tree fell in the correct direction. Happy as larks, they gave me the whole tree-- took me two trips with the big trailer, but I got it to my shop. We lathe turned most of it, and I got the idea that I wanted to make me a 36" diameter bowl. OK, this is fine. I rough cut the bowl to about 2.5" thick and let it dry. After about a year, I started the final rounding. The darn thing looked good. I'd go to lunch and come back to continue cutting and to my amazement it was out of round again, and again and again. Grrrrrrr! Finally I got it finished and took a picture with my mother sitting inside the thing. It does stop warping after a while, but you'll have to do all sorts of things like kicking your tires twice a day, doing an Indian war dance around the wood, sing to it every other day, especially on dry sunny days, and finally, get up at 3am to chant at it. Sweet ain't it?-gum that is.

Jeff · 11-04-2009, 06:48 PM

Hello Jeff,

I'd be interested in seeing some QS wood just for curiosity. You had an earlier post that said it was an absolute bear to mill and work. Do you think that QS will be more forgiving?

Kinda like hand planing 318 stainless steel?

Jeff Mills · 11-04-2009, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by Jeff

Hello Jeff,

I'd be interested in seeing some QS wood just for curiosity. You had an earlier post that said it was an absolute bear to mill and work. Do you think that QS will be more forgiving?

Kinda like hand planing 318 stainless steel?

Hey Jeff, Yep your right when I put that log on the woodmizer I really didn't know what I was up against. With a brand new 4degree hook angle blade I sawed it in half, by the time the woodmizer got to the other end, the blade was smokin... So I ground another blade down to a hook angle to darn near close to zero and it worked a lot better after that. There's harder wood out there, don't get me wrong but at 1700 according to the jinka scale it's some hard stuff.

Jeff Mills · 11-11-2009, 12:27 AM

Hold up there cow-pokes. I might have over stepped my bounds here... I've got issues with this table. BAD table top glue joint separation. I'll need to rip the top down two of the glue joints and re glue. I might as well do all three joints while I'm at it. This time I'll try Titebond III or maybe polyurethane?

Thanks

FredP · 11-11-2009, 06:39 AM

sorry to hear this jeff, but I kinda expected it.

some stuff just aint made for furniture.

keep us posted.