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Timberbeast......

travelortravelor Member Posts: 442 ✭✭✭
edited November 2001 in General Discussion
treekiller...we lost page seve on the sss-of-sssj, there I had asked you if you want some help fixing your tracter, seriously, I might can do, and would be happy to work something out for wood. Can't use it if you run it through the mill though...the "billits" need to be split on the quarter for fiddles..from sections 16"- 18" long. can't be kiln dried either, must air dry for 15-25 yrs! you might consider drying time before atempting to make a guitar back also...I know someone who has some nicely aged backs and other wood for guitars, if your interested.. let me know if any of these thoughts work for you...tree for tone wood needs to be cut in the winter, when the sap is down. No good otherwise...
keep lots of extra uppers for your ar..you can change often enough to keep the thing from over heating...what ever caliber fits the moment..~Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    travelor: Don't know how hard it is to get parts for an Allis B from 1939!!! Your gracious offer is much appreciated, however! 15 years????? Wow. My guitar will be electric, so the hardest part will be the measurements between the frets. It'll be 24 3/4 scale neck, like a Gibson Les Paul without the carved top, but hopefully good figure. I don't need any recompense for a few chunks of "firewood". I may cut it down next week after I shoot my doe. Already have some snow on the ground up there, I'm sure the sap isn't running. I'll pile the sawmill pieces on posts to keep them off the ground till spring. I can get close enough with my truck to hand-carry a few chunks the size you describe out to the truck. I'll email you soon, have been busy with some planing, and I have to build a porch railing before it's so cold my nostrils stick together!! Can't really do much up in the area of the U.P, I'm in after December starts, the snow gets hip-deep. Can't afford a harvester. Getting too old to lug the saw around on snowshoes to cut wood for spring! Going out with the wife tonight, I don't know how old you are, but I still go and see bands at clubs. Off Broadway is playing at Shank Hall on Farwell in Milwaukee tonight. Talk to you soon.I air dry all of my wood, and with Maple, I figure a year per inch of thickness. 99% of what I cut is white cedar, have a yard full of it now. Couple months will air-dry white cedar quite well, if it's stacked right. Most of my house in panelled with it, and all the doors are made from it! Kiln-dried wood is "dead", it has a totally different feel to it....Where's page 7??????????
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  • travelortravelor Member Posts: 442 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Timber, I need sections of log un split, and ends coated with wax as soon as cut, to prevent checking. If that log is strieght, no tist in its growth, and grew on flat ground, and has good flaming, then I wouldn't mind paying a small fortune for it...such logs are considered extremely rare. A twist as I mentioned should be apparent in the bark as you stand close to the trunk and sight upwards.No more than a 15 degree twist is acceptable. you should be able to see regular rippleing bumps on the surface under the bark if it has strong flaming throughout. Birds eyes show up right through the bark if you look close. What is the diameter of the log? A real big one would make nice cello's also, and then the sections would need to be longer, say near 36". (please also note..I don't much desire birds eye, has the eyes break up the sound wave resonance)
    keep lots of extra uppers for your ar..you can change often enough to keep the thing from over heating...what ever caliber fits the moment..~Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    travelor, the dbh is probably around 20 inches. I've used wax for coating turning burl ends in the past, thanks for the advice on the checking for the twist and figure, far as I remember, it's straight, I always check the bark for that, didn't know how to tell the figure, though. If I take it down, and the figure isn't acceptable, it's just firewood for one of us, but I will coat the ends and let you be the judge. (this is starting to sound like a dance contest!). You can always find me at zap@netwurx.net. Go Pack!!
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