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Yep. It was used for barn sidings here, because it is so open pored that if the planks were set vertically, rain water would run right out of them. Lasted a long time without any treatment.

I though the only trees out your way were cottonwoods.

Nice. Could have been 100 years ago.

Not both at the same time.

Jim, look into Sears pre assembled homes. A lot of those are still standing.

Absolutely:)

Do you have steel shot inside you? Old hunting accident, maybe.

The ones on the top shelf have the blade set way closer to vertical than is normal here, those are the ones I meant. And you are right, nothing beats getting a super clean surface straight from the tool. No matter how much you sand a piece of wood, you don't get the shine and reflection of a...

This is the kind of work that the aforementioned turner does now. An old Englishman, used to be the carpenter at Ledreborg Castle, but after retiring, he got bit real hard by the turning bug. He is very much a rising star in the Danish woodturning world. I gave him the wood for both bowls:)

Jay, I was wondering about the "scraping not acceptable" thing. Does that mean you don't use the kind of plane where the blade is set almost vertical either? It has a name, but it is late night here and after a hard day at work, my brain doesn't function too well, so I can't remember it. Seems...

Exactly! Same goes for woodturning. Getting to the point where you can start sanding a bowl at 320 grain takes some practice. I was doing a demo some years back, and at the end I asked if there was anything they wanted to see. So one guy handed me a piece of slightly punky elmburl and asked how...

Holy smokes, Jay. 15000!!!!!!!! No wonder your furniture has a shine to it. I'd absolutely love to watch you shear scrape a tabletop. The retired furniture maker that I used to hang out with and who willed his entire shop to me when he died ( of lung cancer, from wood dust since he was a...

That would be a garden shed, buildt like a brick outhouse, then. Lots of effort to put into a garden shed.

Could it be done as mail order, cause I want one too!

It is a wonderful turning wood as well. One can get an almost glass-like surface on it. I have made hundreds of salad bowls from it over the years, and they always sell well. It is fun to fume it with ammonia. It starts out by turning greenish, before getting real dark. I have a glass lid on my...

I tried that in California once. Got hit by a 5,8 and the whole house just moved and swayed with the quake instead of breaking apart, like my old brick house would have done. When we bought this house, it had never been heated by anything but a small oilburning stove. Then I installed central...

Gorgeous work! What is the coffetable made from. European Cherry? Got a wonderful figuring.

Wow, nice logs. What kind of pine are those.?

It is a Norweigian stave church, Dave. Ours are all made from stone. If you google Stavkyrkja, the Norwegian word for stave church, you get a lot of pictures. And, yes, they are all made from softwoods. No hardwood to speak of in Norway, but lots of lovely tightgrained pine and spruce. I've...

Norway has wooden chuches dating back to 800 AD. Made from pine that was ringed and allowed to slowly die over up to 60 years. That made then completely resin filled( like the wood sold for firestarting) and extremely rot resistant. Unfortunately it also makes them burn easily, a bunch of...