re: Neatest thing you have built?

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OK, drying time. It is said that it takes one year per inch. Throw that rule out for us down here in the south. To get to about a 10% moisture level, in the summer time if the boards are out the weather, less then 5 months. One can speed that up to 3 months if one would stack and sticker the boards in the house attic. Putting a small fan to blow a little air, drop that time to around 3 weeks or less.

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Good enough, thanks fish. I may get some stock from him and throw it in my attic for a while.

Just post a email and I will send you my contact info. It is hard to say if and when I will be doing something. Some days, I'm not able to even get out of bed.

Do you work? If not, try to find a summer job with a carpenter crew. You will learn a lot. Also that goes with getting with a plumber, AC ect. These people are more then willing to take on extra help in the summer. You get OJT and a few bucks in your pocket.

These days, it is getting harder to find someone that really wants to learn craftsmen's trades. More so finding someone that is young and not on drugs. 10-15 years from now, there is going to be a very big shortage of craft people that really know what they are doing in there fields.

Yes I work in construction the days I don't have class and am very familiar with most things. We just don't build any cabinetry/furniture etc so that's why I'd like to come for a day or so and get an idea of those. I have a chop saw and am in the process of getting a table saw

I'll post an email as soon as I figure out the password for it

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if he doesnt get back with you i will take those oak boards. I have a truck but hauling 14' boards? i might have to cut them

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He did. But once I start sawing again, I will put you next in line. It is just so dam wet. That is the reason I put my mill on a trailer so I can mill somewhere else. No problem cutting boards to size. Chainsaw kicks arse.

Oak and pine. I will be sawing up some pecan, but that shite is hard.

ha hell i'd take pecan boards too.

Reading it is a pain to work with because it is so hard well if i have trouble i cut it up and use it to smoke a brisket.

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OK, drying time. It is said that it takes one year per inch. Throw that rule out for us down here in the south. To get to about a 10% moisture level, in the summer time if the boards are out the weather, less then 5 months. One can speed that up to 3 months if one would stack and sticker the boards in the house attic. Putting a small fan to blow a little air, drop that time to around 3 weeks or less.

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This isn't true. I dry hardwoods in mandeville and it's an inch a year minimum, dry tIme.I sell to many lumber yards in the south and that's just not acceptable. For a job where joints can be a little off and miters can move a little, sure. But for a perfectly dried board, those times don't cut it. I've never found a consistent moisture content throughout a board at those drying times. I'd lose a lot of business with those timetables.*

*we are talking hardwoods like a poster asked, not soft wood.

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. . . there is going to be a very big shortage of craft people that really know what they are doing in there fields.

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Hopefully the market will correct for this, with these crafts commanding more and more money as competition goes down.

ETA: to fix a slip of the thumb.

hey, zip it or ill break your hip.

I built my parents a kitchen table out of pecan. That stuff is hard as a rock and heavy as one as well.

Make sure you have a really good saw blade.

Also, doesn't stain worth a crap. Need to use gel stain on it.