Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
Member since August 2005
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Post by Sabre52 on May 5, 2013 8:52:07 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Still sawing away at the George West stuff. Man, this material is so hard I have to dress my saw blade between every workpiece. The palm especially, is a real blade stopper. Someone needs to invent a high diamond content "palm blade". Anyway, the pics....Mel Sort of plain old shrinkwood: Nicer shrinkie. This one is really agatized. Another. This one was really broken down before it agatized: More earthtone palm: My favorite , though I know not what the heck it is, palm maybe, as the vascular bundles are really large. Another cut off the same hunk:
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on May 5, 2013 10:33:10 GMT -5
Very cool slabs!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on May 5, 2013 10:50:42 GMT -5
I have this theory that the harder something is to cut before it silicifies,the harder it is after.Palm is a tough customer.When i bought a spot in Florida i cut a bunch of palms down(sorry) and they plugged my chain saw up.The 78 year old neighbor came over w/his New Jersey smile and challenged me in a contest-my chain saw against his-hatchet-my buddy laughed the rest of his visit. The bottom photos is typical of wood right on the Rio.The shrinkwood is common at Live Oak/George West.Those shrinks are beauties Mel.I am looking forward to your catalog of Texas woods:> I may be the only one that dresses this way.Some saws have an access.I open it and hold the chunk of 36 grit AO to the blade while running and push the AO to it on top and sides.As if i was carving the chunk with all sides of the diamond segments.Amazing how dressing the sides improves the forward cut.A bit messy.Coral is wicked and is more common big than small.So i cut a lot of 6 x6 stuff.Wood tumbles faster than coral but it wants to stick to the blade.I do not know why but i found wood likes clean saw oil.I will at least move the muck away from the the bottom of the saw blade so there is a clean pocket of oil for the blade to get. My little under powered Covinton 18 has cut plenty of 6 x 10 inch coral slabs,that's a mouthful for any saw.And polishing the slabs(except the last inch) starts with 400 grit!
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Post by frane on May 5, 2013 12:12:26 GMT -5
Mel, those are beautiful slabs and worth the extra trouble they cause you! Fran
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