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Post by Peruano on Oct 17, 2018 17:56:34 GMT -5
I've been cutting some particularly solid palm wood given to me by a friend so origin unknown. I've been playing with orientation with the idea of varying from the standard cross section etc. Here's an example of the cross section.  When you shift to a longitudinal cut, the dots become dashes.  But by my way of thinking things get really interesting when you tilt the stub 45 degree and do an oblique cut. Two example follow.   The same strategy works on some corals and of course other types of pet wood. I hope you see the differences as distinctly as I did with my crappy cell phone photos. |
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Post by HankRocks on Oct 17, 2018 18:24:24 GMT -5
It all comes down to personal preference, I cut most of my Palm wood with the grain to show the elongated reeds. That and all Palm wood is not created equal, sometimes the reed structure is more pronounced and really stands out.
By the way, nice Palm wood. I would say Louisiana or Texas variety.
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Post by goatgrinder on Oct 17, 2018 18:28:18 GMT -5
Thanks for the new angles on cutting palm. Much good information. Best.
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Post by stephan on Oct 18, 2018 15:52:15 GMT -5
There is something to be said for all 3 orientations. The 45° cut definitely looks like it would make for some interesting cabs. That is some amazingly preserved bark you have on yours. With that intact, full rounds of the standard cross-section cut would make for some really cool coasters (assuming it not 3' in diameter or something). Hopefully you have enough pieces to really be able to experiment. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to see some coral with the longitudinal and 45° cuts.
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Post by beefjello on Oct 20, 2018 19:59:42 GMT -5
Palm is one of my favs, love all 3 flavors!
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Post by pauls on Oct 22, 2018 18:17:27 GMT -5
This works for petrified wood too.
Yesterday I had another look at a chunk of wood thats been sitting around for ages, beige with darker beige rings, I tried cutting across the grain and just got the ring patten, nice but boring, then cut along the grain and its just stripey boring, tilted to around 45 degrees and it's got lots of wavey curvey grain, colours still pretty blah but at least it has something happening.
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Post by Peruano on Oct 22, 2018 20:12:12 GMT -5
Sometimes you have to experiment and go for the unknown. Some of the corals cut on the oblique angle are just unbelievable.
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