Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Oak log cutting advice please
ken chase
>I just got these and need ideas of the best way to cut them. I want to make my first natural edge bowl and some large hollowforms and conventional type bowls large in diameter at the top and very narrow at the foot.
another photo of oak logs
ken chase
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Re: another photo of oak logs
Gary Evans, Tallassee, TN
>Ken,
Do you know what kind of oak that is? Here in the east we don't have oaks with slick bark like that.
Gary
Re: another photo of oak logs
Dave MacLuskie
>Agree, that bark doesn't look like any oak that I've sawed up or turned.
But to answer the question, Bill Grumbine's website (google for it) has a nice photo essay on cutting up logs into turning blanks. His DVD has it in live action.
type of oak
ken chase
>Sorry. I don't know. It came from Westlake Village, a suburb of Los Angeles San Fernando Valley.
I cut it in half and about to mount and attempt my first bark edge bowl.
Re: another photo of oak logs
GaryG in MD
>Ken, Is that all from the same tree? I know that bark can vary in different parts of a tree, but at first glance that sure looks like two different kinds of wood. ...Gary
Re: another photo of oak logs
Brad Vietje
>I'd agree,
In the second photo, the log on the little table, and the three next to it (possibly the fourth, partly hidden) look like an Oak species to me (orangy, tough, stringy heartwood, distinct lighter sapwood). The other ones do not look like the same wood to me. The bark looks more like Beech (among Eastern trees) or an Aspen.
Anyone out West with better guesses ?
Safe Spinning,
Brad Vietje
Thetford, VT
Re: another photo of oak logs
Carole in VA
>Ken, you got a closeup shot of the end grain on the slick logs? I agree that it's not any kind of oak I have ever seen.
reply to oak questions
ken chase
>Sorry:
A few of the logs are mesquite. I've turned the outside of a natural edge from the oak and it is definitely oak. The place it came from is Thousand Oaks CA an area covered with oak trees. The type of oak is another matter. I don't have enough experience to tell. I've used oak in some furniture I built and recognise the grain pattern.
Thanks all for the replies!
Re: another photo of oak logs
Jim D.
>Looking at this photo the 5 logs in the upper right could very well be oak, but definatly not the rest of them. The 2 shown in the other photo are not oak either. Been working with the tree all my life and have never seen a smooth bark oak of that diameter.
Jim D.
