…and that includes slathering glue on the ends (let’s try that) and going inside from time to time so I could dunk my head in the sink. First time with the drawknife, fun!
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March 13, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Gye Greene
I never thought of glue. Seems like it would work!
How did you hold the logs in place?
–GG
March 13, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Eric
Ha! Well, I rested each log against my legs and did my best. I found it easier later on to push the drawknife down towards the ground. That made my wife feel more at ease than repeatedly pulling a big blade to my chest, and it also solved my problem of no clamps, since the ground was holding the log in place.
March 13, 2010 at 9:52 pm
dan
I was also questioning how you did that without a shaving horse. Seems that it worked well enough without. I have a drawknife handed down from my grandfather and I was procrastinating on restoring it because I didn’t have a shaving horse. Thanks.
March 13, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Eric
Of course, if you look closely in the picture (click to enlarge) you’ll see that the shortest piece still has its bark. That was actually because that was the first one I did, and I glued the ends first. The other two, I peeled ‘em first.
So I do plan to strip the short one, but it will be a bit trickier using my same technique.
Oh, and that red chair was my sawbench.
March 18, 2010 at 12:26 pm
ExtremelyAverage
This may seem like a silly question, but I would like to know what you do with the wood next.
I am pretty new to this hobby and I see you have cleaned the logs up, now do you dry them, then use them for turning, or are they for carving. Just curious.
March 18, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Eric
Hey Brian, thanks for stopping by! Nice to see a fellow noob out there.
To answer your question, I’m not sure yet what I want to do with these logs! I just saw some straight lengths of wood in very good condition, and for the best price you could ask for. For the thickest piece of wood, I might try to fashion it into a carving mallet. I also could see myself using the wood to make a handle for my one-day-I-will-have-one leg vise, as well as bench dogs for my one-day-I-will-have-one workbench. I don’t have a lathe, so any “turning” will be done probably with a hatchet, drawknife and spokeshave. And probably plenty of sandpaper too!
March 18, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Aluminum Extrusions
Simple and beautiful. Never thought that it was this easy, but I’ll have to give it a shot one of these days! Thanks for sharing, and motivation!
March 28, 2010 at 1:48 pm
pat
Could you do a follow up to this so I could see as the others are asking too for more information on this. I would like to do other projects with my saw too. Thanks
March 28, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Gye Greene
Eric,
In many ways, I feel like you and I are in similar situations: (1) no real shop space; (2) no actual workbench; and (3) not much time.
To this end — and inspired by some of your recent posts — here’s a brief tour of my ”workshop” (AKA ”my back porch”). Curious as to your reactions — esp. my modded sawhorse, which I think might suit your current situation (unlike a ”workbench”, which inspires perfectionism and procrastination, a ”sawhorse” is more amenable to just ”doing it”).
http://gyegreene.blogspot.com/2010/03/sawhorse-as-workbench.html
–GG
March 29, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Eric
Pat, if I end up doing anything with this wood I’ll be sure to post something. Right now I’m seeing the logs splitting again! This time, seems to be just one crack, but it appears to be going pretty far instead of just a bunch of tiny ones like last time. So all this might be for nothing.
If I cut more logs, which I very well may (there’s still plenty of wood out there), I think I’ll follow Gye’s advice from the last post and split them right away.
April 13, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Shahidan
The center of log ,the sapwood, contains a lot of water. The log split at the center as the moisture dries out. So to avoid more serious splitting the log must be sawn into planks o that the moisture dries out evenly.
Ps: You can get a lot of advice from fellow woodworkers if you join lumberjocks.com as a member. Membership is free .
asm
April 13, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Eric
Thanks for that, I think I’ll do that next time! Oh, and by the way, I am a member of LumberJocks (as you can see in the sidebar on the left). I typically post here and then over on LumberJocks, for the variety of advice; this particular post is at this link!