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8-Dec-2002
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While I spent the whole day and into the evening cleaning my garage, the day was not lost on chores. I did manage to score a few bonsai things today. My garage was a mess. I had not cleaned it well for almost a year. I had acumilated lots of useless tid bits of everything under the sun. I guess I am a packrat.
I started on one of the corners, and utilized one of the old shelving units from the hot sauce collection to organize the stains and some of the small spray cans I use for small stands. If I am doing a large stand I will use the spray gun, it's much cheaper. The shelf with the huge stack of wood on it, is the additional shelf I added just to store all the wood I found under all the mess. In that stack are Black Walnut, Paduk, African Mahogany, Austrailian Lace Wood, Wengi, Poplar, Red Oak, Cherry, and Quilted Maple.
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8-Dec-2002
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Greybeard
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A closer look at the pile of wood. This pile represents about 10 or more stands, about 12x18" in size. I can make shohin size stand from the waste usually. I think I will start on the long cascade stands first though.
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8-Dec-2002
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Greybeard
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This is closer yet. The top wood represents Wengi, from South America. Very hard, and beautiful. One drawback is lacquar's make them turn black, which is not necessarily a drawback. I would just like to see the variation in grain. The next board is Austrailian Lace Wood. This is a hard wood with grain that looks like lizard skin. Very beautiful when finished, and looks better with finish on it. Next down is a piece of Black Walnut. Nothing special here, just great hardwood, and King with me for projects.
The orange board is Paduk. This is a hardwood from Africa. It gets a little richer and darker with age and oxidation. This is a mess to work with in the shop. This stuff stains your clothes and will make a mess in the house if I'm not carefull. Trust me I'm carefull. The three ramaining boards are African Mahogany. These boards are a full 2 inches thick and 12 inches wide. I will have these resawn and then I will run them through the planer and make large stands from them.These three boards alone should make about 4 to 5 stands.
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8-Dec-2002
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Greybeard
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This is a close up on the Paduk. I made a stand from this wood last year. It was rather Chinese in style, and I took it to the Akatsuki Bonsai Club show. First guy I showed it to bought it for 60.00 bucks. The stand was 12 x 16 and 3" high. I wish I had a mountain of this stuff. Importation of wood is almost getting as bad as bonsai. Belive it or not, they look for critters in the wood too. Trust me, sometimes they find them too.
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8-Dec-2002
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Greybeard
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I did not shoot a pic of the poplar, oak or cherry and maple. This is wood that I use to make stands that will be stained or died. It is rater bland to look at.
I did have some fun today though. I purchased a toy. This is a 4 1/2 angle grinder fitted with a new attachment. This is a super dooper carving tool that I will use this spring to carve my Cal. Juniper. It is a 4 1/2" disc with a chainsaw wrapped around it!
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8-Dec-2002
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Greybeard
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Close up of the deadly weapon. This thing mows through wood like butter. It does not grab, vibrate, move the work, or push away. It cuts the wood so fluid that I was amazed. It leaves no noticible marks on the wood like a regular chainsaw does. This cutter spins at 16,000 RPM. It cuts real smooooth!
The only thing I am afraid of, is I might forget to stop, and turn the whole bush into sawdust!
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8-Dec-2002
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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
 
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Where you stashin the Brazilian rosewood?
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8-Dec-2002
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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
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Looks like you found a small fortune under the trash. Considering the price of hardwood these days.
That's a dandy cutting wheel, is that a special order item or can you find those at hardware stores and such? |
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8-Dec-2002
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YOU CAN NOT RUSH TIME
 
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Al, Question, I have been thinking about a grinder. I've noticed that there are 4 and 4 1/2 inch grinders. Is there a difference? OK other than the 1/2 inch. I would be getting it pretty much for the trees!
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8-Dec-2002
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Tree herder
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Allright, here comes the maths lesson:
16000 rpm on a 4" cutter gives 5107 m/min cutting speed. 16000 rpm on a 4.5" cutter gives 5745 m/min cutting speed. The m/min thing is metres per minute. This is the speed that the edge of the disc is passing through whatever it is cutting. So as long as the rpm's of the different cutters are the same, you get a faster 'peripheral speed' with a bigger diameter cutter. The same sort of effect as when hotrod cars have huge wheels on the back. Here endeth the lesson...  Regards, TB PS Al nice wood.
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