Got a nasty suprise last nite. I was cutting two necks out of an oak 1x4 when the wood split going thru the saw. The split was internal with no sign of it on the outsides of the board.The only indication that something was wrong was some rough grain on one side. That ruined my evening. I managed to salvage some small scraps.
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Drats. Sometimes life hands you lemonade, sometimes it splits your wood. Eh. Good for ya to salvage what you could .
-WY
Wasn't enough left to laminate. The board was 36" long and I barely got four 4" pieces out of it. The split ran diagonally thru the board.
Oily "Strat-O'-Nine-Tales" Fool said:
Find another alternate color / variety of wood, and laminate!
I'll find some use for the scrap, I don't throw wood away. I may reduce a log to chips doing a carving, but I never waste wood. Bridges, nuts, box braces, parts for toy trucks, the list goes on. I used scrap flooring to make wood plugs to fix oversized screw holes on a screen door instal for my son.
Oily "Strat-O'-Nine-Tales" Fool said:
Darn...definitely subject material for a song, though.
Wait: bridges!
No way to glue and clamp back, then continue eh? Not to completely diminish the bit of bad luck, but it was oak. If it were ebony, bubinga, makore, or spalted maple -- well, we would been in need of a candle light vigil.
-WY
William McCauley said:
Wasn't enough left to laminate. The board was 36" long and I barely got four 4" pieces out of it. The split ran diagonally thru the board.
Oily "Strat-O'-Nine-Tales" Fool said:Find another alternate color / variety of wood, and laminate!
No way to glue and clamp back, then continue eh? Not to completely diminish the bit of bad luck, but it was oak. If it were ebony, bubinga, makore, or spalted maple -- well, we would been in need of a candle light vigil.
-WY
William McCauley said:Wasn't enough left to laminate. The board was 36" long and I barely got four 4" pieces out of it. The split ran diagonally thru the board.
Oily "Strat-O'-Nine-Tales" Fool said:Find another alternate color / variety of wood, and laminate!
I feel your pain, I dropped a finished dump truck I had made for a friend, busted the dump bed all to hell. The bed was
made up of six pieces if 1/4 and 1/2 inch oak and walnut, I was not happy.
Richard G Caudill said:
I like the part about go have a beer !!! I had a box almost complete yesterday and "oopsed" a hole all way thru it in wrong place.. I didn't bust it ,,but did roughly throw it our my shop door!! Yes I did !!
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