Riving wood
john lucas
When I was splitting the big maple I had to remove I laid out some logs I liked and decided to save some. As I was splitting the wood with my big wood splitter I noticed that I could get some nice shaped blanks if I wanted. So after splitting a few into spindle blanks I decided to rive some hollow vessel blanks. I was suprised how close you could get them to round. Saves a lot of wear and tear on the bandsaw. I did cut a few bowl blanks and one big hollow vessel blank on the bandsaw.
I sealed all the ends with wax except a few that I put stretch wrap on. Now where in the heck am I going to store these until I can turn them. Gotta spend some time putting shelves up in my wood storage building.
