Picked up some walnut today from an auction

[RVA_Tyndall]

A family was downsizing and old off their shop at auction. Picked up some clamps and all this mostly black walnut lumber for $100!

Lots of potential blanks in this haul! I am going to have to learn how to make segmented blanks.

 

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[magpens]

That should make a few pens !!!

 

[GaryMGg]

That's deserving of becoming furniture.
The offcuts and drops will make plenty of pens.

 

[wolf creek knives]

Sweeeeet!!! I love working with and the look of Walnut once it's finished. Good deal on the price too.

 

[RVA_Tyndall]

That's deserving of becoming furniture.
The offcuts and drops will make plenty of pens.

I need a planer before I try any serious furniture projects!


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[GaryMGg]

That's deserving of becoming furniture.
The offcuts and drops will make plenty of pens.

I need a planer before I try any serious furniture projects!

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I see about 7 roughly 5" X 8' walnut planks.
If so, that's about 23 BF (board feet or foot) of timber.
I can make 24 blanks from 1BF —that's 560 blanks.
Thinking out loud:

Might be a crime to cut all this into pen blanks.
Cherry pick the most highly figured for pens and store the rest until you have a jointer and planer.
:biggrin:

 

[RVA_Tyndall]

Good idea. I also have stacks of white oak slabs from a tree that I had sawed up two years ago... need some ideas on how to combine the two woods.

I have even more boards under the tarp...



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