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  1. rybo

    Wood identification - spoon stock

    Getting my Peter Follansbee on recently and carving spoons. We are doing work on the house recently and I noticed the workers had left this little guy. I thought it had potential, so I split it open with my froe. It looks like it would make a beautiful spoon, but I want to make sure its a decent...
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    Riving maple...uses?

    Got around to riving some of the maple logs I had lying around. It looks beautiful, and it's a very satisfying feeling to see it go from log to lumber. I know a few logs are limb wood (thanks scsmith42), but the others seems to be from the main trunk. The first things that come to mind are a...
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    Finished making my first hand plane

    Doug fir / walnut with a chiseled-down walnut dowel (too cheap for the Veritas doweling jig). Blade taken from a Groz plane I had lying around. Finished this afternoon, used it to chamfer an edge - got some really nice thin shavings. Can't wait to really test it out. Looking back, I...
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    Before/After Planing Thread

    One of the things I love about woodworking is taking wood and exposing what's beneath by planing it and cleaning it up. I haven't seen a similar thread, so I thought I would attempt to start one. Anyone got any good pics of before/after wood? I'll start things off. Before: After...
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    Received free maple logs...now need advice on slicing them up!

    The neighbor across the street just cut down a large, beautiful maple tree. I was out recovering from surgery, so I wasn't able to get my hands on any of the large logs (plus I don't have a place to put them now, or a truck). However, after she saw me picking through the wormy split logs she...
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    Yet another Wood ID

    I got a bunch of wood from my grandfather recently. Mostly walnut, with some curly maple sprinkled throughout. I started making my sister a jewelry box for Christmas (my first dovetail project), and thought I was using pieces of walnut. I've started to wonder whether I'm wrong about it being...
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    Bench Joinery

    I recently got 2 long walnut boards from my grandfather. Both pieces are around 8' long, and I'm thinking about turning at least the bigger one into some type of bench. It's obviously not a slab, but I think this still might be the best use that would keep from having to chop up the long...
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    How to Slab Smaller Dogwood Trunks

    Hey all, A neighbor left a big pile of dogwood trunks for pickup, so naturally I had to pick up a few just to see what the wood was like. I've never heard of woodworkers really using dogwood, but I thought it would be a good learning experience. Suprisingly, from what I see the wood has...
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    Newbie in Charlotte

    Hey all, I'm new to the site - just got married and moved to Charlotte from Columbia a few months ago. I've been woodworking for only about a year now, but I'm hooked. My grandfather recently gave me all of his old woodworking tools and a few stacks of walnut, so I've been setting up in my...

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