dai sensei
26th August 2017, 10:28 PM
When I built my front carport ~5 years ago I chopped down a relatively young Blackwood. I stacked them in log form outside my workshop on a concrete slab for future use. A few months ago the termites and borers were into the dam things and so got them treated. Last week the termite man came back to ensure the nest was killed and decided I should do something with them before they turned to dust.
This week I got a small job to turn up some chair leg extensions and decided no time like the present. The bark and most of the sapwood had turned to mush with heaps of big fat borers. I swapped out the 10mm blade on my bandsaw for the new 1" TCT blade I bought a while back and got stuck in. It was like cutting butter with the new blade. I cut the extensions I needed plus spare and chucked them in the dehydrator to ensure they were dry and then finished off cutting the 8 logs ~250dia x 0.8-1.0m long. I must have sliced through ~30 borer grubs.
I ended up with a big barrow full of blanks for pepper grinders, bowls, trinket boxes, handles, pens and some small slabs for boxes. I also cut up a smaller log in Jac buried in the stack for some spalted blanks
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This week I got a small job to turn up some chair leg extensions and decided no time like the present. The bark and most of the sapwood had turned to mush with heaps of big fat borers. I swapped out the 10mm blade on my bandsaw for the new 1" TCT blade I bought a while back and got stuck in. It was like cutting butter with the new blade. I cut the extensions I needed plus spare and chucked them in the dehydrator to ensure they were dry and then finished off cutting the 8 logs ~250dia x 0.8-1.0m long. I must have sliced through ~30 borer grubs.
I ended up with a big barrow full of blanks for pepper grinders, bowls, trinket boxes, handles, pens and some small slabs for boxes. I also cut up a smaller log in Jac buried in the stack for some spalted blanks
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