Malted... I have in my shed a number of large mill sawn Red Cedar slabs...i am talking 450x200x2400...300x200x3000, to many to list...I have had them for about 10 years,
:icon_drool2: Very useful lengths.
This is another reason I need a bigger shed!
And a dust extraction system - sawdust all over the brewing gear is not so cool.
My ambition is to build a Bill Pentz styled cyclone system. What do you guys use?
The trick is to buy them green and season them yourself. Takes a few years, but not much work to stack and turn them occasionally.
They came up well as a stand to hold my telly off the floor.
Great character in the timber of the stand. It would not look half as cool if it had perfect edges.
I have too many projects on the go as it is and my wood stack is growing. I have collected enough that I need to build a frame of sorts for it. I could just imagine my missus complaining about me storing slabs for an extended period of time. She almost chucked a wobly when I told her I wanted to buy a wood lathe. (I got hold of some ferrules and finials and want to make some
half sized 'hand pull style' beer tap handles in lovely bits of wood).
Mostly I do things on a needs be basis, like a bookshelf (it is on its last legs now after the abuse suffered from two lots of removalists)
and little projects as gifts for friends.
Cut to shape with a jigsaw, then carved with a flappy disc on the angle grinder and a die grinder for the details.
When I used to live in rural Queensland I used to scab old timber from here and there and liked to make 'rustic' frames for my photos (I do the matte board cutting too).
An old silky oak door frame from a demolished house. It was common to use silky oak in door frames and window frames back then, and then paint over it!
Old weathered cypress pine, brought back to life from a derelict cottage.
Frames for other things (the frame was actually timber from the inside of an old wool press).
Old bottles scabbed from bottle dumps nearby to ancient, abandoned homestead buildings (I used to love ratting through these sites!). Red desert sand from the far west in them. It was purposesly built as a gift for a friend who was leaving but had sentimental attachment to the far west. It was a shadowbox to hang on the wall that showed some of the character of the region.
Edit: Sorry Punkin if I have gone too far off topic.
