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Couple more of my stool samples..... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/TNdmdGM.jpg) Not far from being a potential coffee table, just needs a wider slab. Come on Dan get creative, that's red cedar you're working with there. You gotta be able to turn out sumtin' more than a stool sample... ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/97099.jpg) That does not look like red cedar to me... Have your eyes checked. Southern red.... I've heard it's different out where you live. Yup, our red cedar is actually cedar... 
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Couple more of my stool samples..... Not far from being a potential coffee table, just needs a wider slab. Come on Dan get creative, that's red cedar you're working with there. You gotta be able to turn out sumtin' more than a stool sample... That does not look like red cedar to me... Have your eyes checked. Southern red.... I've heard it's different out where you live. Yup, our red cedar is actually cedar... Yeah, our's is actually just Cedar...
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Couple more of my stool samples..... Not far from being a potential coffee table, just needs a wider slab. Come on Dan get creative, that's red cedar you're working with there. You gotta be able to turn out sumtin' more than a stool sample... That does not look like red cedar to me... Have your eyes checked. Southern red.... I've heard it's different out where you live. Yup, our red cedar is actually cedar... Yeah, our's is actually just Cedar... I was being facetious, neither are true cedars. Yours is a juniper and ours is thuja. Both commonly called cedar... The wood you get is far superior to ours.
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Yup, our red cedar is actually cedar... Yeah, our's is actually just Cedar... I was being facetious, As was I... ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/default/wink.gif) The wood you get is far superior to ours. Maybe for being purty but we could never get enough straight boards to side a house.
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I'd turn it into BTUs in the fireplace. Me too, oak splits.
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This slab is now behind a couch in my living room. Happy with how it turned out. Ive decided I need a 30" planer.  Thanks for ideas and advice. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/ZewBlbt.jpg) Very nicely done TimberRunner. I have a bunch of slabs drying, waiting for me to get to them. The legs you used look nice, a lot of slab furniture made lately has black pipe for legs. I’m not a big fan of them. Yours came out very nice.
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Couple more of my stool samples..... Not far from being a potential coffee table, just needs a wider slab. Come on Dan get creative, that's red cedar you're working with there. You gotta be able to turn out sumtin' more than a stool sample... That does not look like red cedar to me... Have your eyes checked. Southern red.... I've heard it's different out where you live. Yup, our red cedar is actually cedar... Yeah, our's is actually just Cedar... I was being facetious, neither are true cedars. Yours is a juniper and ours is thuja. Both commonly called cedar... The wood you get is far superior to ours. See the third paragraph of the link. Cedar Key is about 15 miles as the crows fly from where the wood in my pictures originates from. https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/trees-and-shrubs/trees/red-cedar.html
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I am..........disturbed.
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My neighbor gave me this 2" oak slab. Its dang nice but the edge has a lot of wet rot. I am comfortable stabilizing the crack with bowties and the knot with epoxy before finishing, but any advice as what to do with this rot at the edge? Was thinking about taking a flap wheel sander to it. The higher mag pic is after I dug at the edge with a screwdriver. Ultimate goal is either a coffee table (maybe not this one) or may cut it half and make an interesting shelf. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/0Rw2mf0.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/4DnUSSd.jpg) Dimensions? Finished its cut down to approximately 70" long x 17-26" wide with the live edge.
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This slab is now behind a couch in my living room. Happy with how it turned out. Ive decided I need a 30" planer. Thanks for ideas and advice. Very nicely done TimberRunner. I have a bunch of slabs drying, waiting for me to get to them. The legs you used look nice, a lot of slab furniture made lately has black pipe for legs. I’m not a big fan of them. Yours came out very nice. Used a fabricator out of Illinois. They did a good job. 2" square.
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I get slabs[mostly poplar] and age them a bit by letting them sit under a deck where they get sun but little moisture. Put them in our vacay rental house. Have had a few requests to make for folk. I'm like did you even look at it? 2 Hobby Lobby brackets, a piece of slab and about 5 minutes saw work.  ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/jPgEQBbl.jpg)
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My neighbor gave me this 2" oak slab. Its dang nice but the edge has a lot of wet rot. I am comfortable stabilizing the crack with bowties and the knot with epoxy before finishing, but any advice as what to do with this rot at the edge? Was thinking about taking a flap wheel sander to it. The higher mag pic is after I dug at the edge with a screwdriver. Ultimate goal is either a coffee table (maybe not this one) or may cut it half and make an interesting shelf. Dimensions? Finished its cut down to approximately 70" long x 17-26" wide with the live edge. Nice coffee table, methinks.
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My neighbor gave me this 2" oak slab. Its dang nice but the edge has a lot of wet rot. I am comfortable stabilizing the crack with bowties and the knot with epoxy before finishing, but any advice as what to do with this rot at the edge? Was thinking about taking a flap wheel sander to it. The higher mag pic is after I dug at the edge with a screwdriver. Ultimate goal is either a coffee table (maybe not this one) or may cut it half and make an interesting shelf. Dimensions? Finished its cut down to approximately 70" long x 17-26" wide with the live edge. Nice coffee table, methinks. You missed the final product pic. It's already finished.
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This one was a Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola aka Coastal or Southern Red Cedar when I cut it down in my backyard....Looks a lot like Dan's slabs. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/97093.jpg) That is wild!!!
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My neighbor gave me this 2" oak slab. Its dang nice but the edge has a lot of wet rot. I am comfortable stabilizing the crack with bowties and the knot with epoxy before finishing, but any advice as what to do with this rot at the edge? Was thinking about taking a flap wheel sander to it. The higher mag pic is after I dug at the edge with a screwdriver. Ultimate goal is either a coffee table (maybe not this one) or may cut it half and make an interesting shelf. Dimensions? Finished its cut down to approximately 70" long x 17-26" wide with the live edge. Nice coffee table, methinks. You missed the final product pic. It's already finished. Sure did! Saw the pic behind the couch but didn’t put it together. Probably because I missed the OP date. Strike three. 
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Very cool post. I missed it when it back then and really appreciate the history of the area and more so the pencil factory. The smell of Port Orford Cedar has always been "pencil cedar" but I would prefer the FL cedar... eta... did not realize it was just posted...
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Yup, our red cedar is actually cedar... Yeah, our's is actually just Cedar... I was being facetious, As was I... The wood you get is far superior to ours. Maybe for being purty but we could never get enough straight boards to side a house. But if you could the bugs would hate it... I got a stack of book-matched eastern red cedar boards that are spectacularly fiddleback most of the way and are over 2' wide and 8' long. Only had them a decade or three and still looking for the right place to use them...
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I got a stack of book-matched eastern red cedar boards that are spectacularly fiddleback most of the way and are over 2' wide and 8' long. Only had them a decade or three and still looking for the right place to use them...
The cedar I cut down in the yard made it to the mill twice in five years, I wanted to cut it up into two inch thick boards. First time he was broke down, second time he was extending the bed on the mill and couldn't run it. Finally I just started in whittling on it and ended up settling for a nifty 14 foot long garden bench.... I'm sure an idea will come to mind one day if you keep them around a little longer...
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This slab is now behind a couch in my living room. Happy with how it turned out. Ive decided I need a 30" planer. Thanks for ideas and advice. Very nicely done TimberRunner. I have a bunch of slabs drying, waiting for me to get to them. The legs you used look nice, a lot of slab furniture made lately has black pipe for legs. I’m not a big fan of them. Yours came out very nice. Used a fabricator out of Illinois. They did a good job. 2" square. A fabricator? So those are steel 2” square tube? I thought they were square wood legs. Neat
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