Some gnarly Blackwood

[P.W.H.]

I think we've all been sniffing the same sawdust for far to long...

If it's MDF, can you still call it sawdust? I'm busy building a new assembly table out of cover sheets ... and I am not enjoying
the mess it makes. Heh.

[P.W.H.]

So, since you asked to see some of the NZ blackwood Mapleman, here are some pictures of how I cut two flitches freehand out of a windfall in my woodlot. Freehand, that is, with a piece of 4x1 as a visual guide. One slab is about 50-60mm, the other 150-160mm, for turning into some quartersawn sticks.

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What's left of the log I'm going to separate from stump and head and then cut into it through the centre at 90 degrees from the existing cut, hopefully getting a bit more
quartersawn timber in the process.

-Peter