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Post by woodman on Dec 30, 2019 21:56:42 GMT -5
Well I can tell you what it is not! It is not Oak, it is not palm, it is not sycamore. It does look like a conifer. would really need microscopic photo to tell and even then sometimes it is just a guess. I would not, at this point, rule out any of the other species from Stinking water, but I can almost talk myself into seeing resin canals, which would rule out any of he hardwoods. time to invest in a cheap USB microscope and look for cells. this is Oak.
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Post by woodman on Dec 24, 2019 21:40:36 GMT -5
Merry Christmas All!! Happy new Year! Let the new year ROCK!
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Post by woodman on Dec 22, 2019 12:11:01 GMT -5
Nice, would love to have a piece of quarter cut oak furniture. Merry Christmas to you. Our kitchen cabinets and drawers all have quartersawn doors and drawer fronts. Looks jut like this piece of pet wood.
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Post by woodman on Dec 21, 2019 13:31:12 GMT -5
I haven't been doing much lately, bad back has kept me out of the shop. Hopefully soon in can get back working in there. I have been playing with some wood and photoshop! This one is a 5 inch tall piece of Stining Water Oak cut to show the rays as in quartersawn lumber. I hope everyone on here has a real good Christmas. We went and cut down a nice noble fir yesterday that we will trim out today. We have a Christmas tree farm right next to us that we get them from, Good neighbors and good trees!
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Post by woodman on Dec 6, 2019 18:37:07 GMT -5
I will check my 24 and see what the blade arbor is running at tomorrow, it's dark and scary out there right now!! The only time it quit cutting was when I let the blade get dull. lol dark and scary lmao thats funny old man The scary part of it is me tripping over my own feet!! That is even in the daylight!!!
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Post by woodman on Dec 5, 2019 17:56:25 GMT -5
I braved it today, even got fire going in my shop. cutting 5 inch Brazilian agate as I type.2.5 in pulley on motor 10 in on arbor showing a blade RPM of 460. I do not know what the feed rate is. My 24 is an old Highland Park 24 in saw. cuts great.
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Post by woodman on Dec 5, 2019 10:48:52 GMT -5
I got places in my woods that I never venture into, You never know what lurks there!
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Post by woodman on Dec 4, 2019 22:08:15 GMT -5
I will check my 24 and see what the blade arbor is running at tomorrow, it's dark and scary out there right now!! The only time it quit cutting was when I let the blade get dull.
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Post by woodman on Nov 11, 2019 17:34:29 GMT -5
On my 18 inch lortone, the motor pulley is 2" and the pulley on the blade arbor is 7 inches. was going to get rpm reading but my meter battery is dead. need to get a new 9 volt battery! If I am right on motor RPM is should be getting a blade RPM of about 700 www.blocklayer.com/pulley-belteng.aspx
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Post by woodman on Nov 10, 2019 10:30:52 GMT -5
A couple of things I would look at first. 1: what is your feed rate? maybe too fast. 2: How long has it been since the blade was sharpened? I don't know the size of the motors I have on my 18 and 24, but they are both 110. I should check and see what my blade speed is. How often should you sharpen your blade? I only have trouble with taller stones (~6" tall on an 18"). Every quartz tall quartz cut jams it as do larger others like Jasper/Hematite.... How would you do it, simply by cutting a cinderblock? My feed rate I can vary using different pulleys but use about 6-7 inches of cart travel per hour as standard. For checking blade speed, I had my dad instal a 10 dollar Hall Sensor from Amazon that came with a digital display. I simply mounted the display in a plastic electric box next to my pulley cover and powered it through the saw's motor and now I have an RPM gauge on my saw so I know if its starting to bog down rather than having to guess. This was money well spent. If I knew how to install an automatic kill switch when the RPM drops below a threshold I would love to install that but unfortunately I don't know of a method to do this. I bought some cheap silicon carbide grinding wheels and just make a couple cuts on them. I do it when i feel that it is taking to long or like on my 24, when I fried the belt.
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Post by woodman on Nov 9, 2019 21:32:30 GMT -5
A couple of things I would look at first. 1: what is your feed rate? maybe too fast. 2: How long has it been since the blade was sharpened? I don't know the size of the motors I have on my 18 and 24, but they are both 110. I should check and see what my blade speed is.
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Post by woodman on Oct 26, 2019 20:23:40 GMT -5
Looking at thundereggs is a bit like looking at clouds! We all see different things.Part of the enjoyment of the hobby!
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Post by woodman on Oct 21, 2019 17:05:26 GMT -5
this is an unpolished piece of Arizona wood. Not seeing the green.
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Post by woodman on Oct 21, 2019 13:06:25 GMT -5
My first thought was obsidian but figured you all would recognize that, some arizona wood has the black and reds. would be nice to have the stone in hand.
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Post by woodman on Oct 21, 2019 12:42:13 GMT -5
I have several slabs of Pet Wood with nearly identical patterns as the longer stone on the right. Thanks, wpotterw ! Any idea where yours is from? That long piece on the right has a green color in the left side of it.
Sorry No. Real nice pieces for sure.
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Post by woodman on Oct 13, 2019 18:33:16 GMT -5
Picked this one today from just below house, will slice it up and saute in garlic butter and will have it over pot roast that is cooking in slow cooker!
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Post by woodman on Oct 13, 2019 16:31:28 GMT -5
Friend gave me a box of agates and one of them was this Zimbawe Agate. should polish up real nice.
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Post by woodman on Oct 4, 2019 9:27:19 GMT -5
All of these recipes sound great, but when I am out rockhounding, simple is the best. Steak on a BBQ with a pot of baked beans!!!
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Post by woodman on Oct 2, 2019 9:54:30 GMT -5
My expert got back to me and she thinks what I have is Popular. We have found Popular in that area before.
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Post by woodman on Oct 2, 2019 9:30:24 GMT -5
Judging by the size of the neck on that bigger one, he is starting his rutting soon enough... I thought the same thing, his neck is pretty big already.
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