TonyCz

Very nice table!
I have a friend here in So Cal that cuts slabs from the city logging operation he has as a hobbie using his stilth chain saw 60" blade as his standard bar lenght. He has been collecting claro walnut, silver maple, Eucalyptus, Chinese elm, sugar pine & Carob wow that’s some heavy wood. He say’s some day would like to have a shop to make some tables. His entire back yard is filled with slab’s I told him that he needs to start selling some of his fruit from his labor and he could have that shop sooner than later.
The above slab list is only what I know he has milled

I miss read Johann's post and agree with her as well long live the radial arm saw.

Tony

The RAS can be a work horse in any shop as I use it most often for rough cutting rough lumber to length for milling. Its the best tool in the shop in my opinion for this task. Maybe because I was brought up to respect the tool from an early age. Shop safety is paramount and the best recommendation from my old HS shop instructor 30+ years ago is to paint a red safety strip on the table surface 6" to the right and 6" left of the blade and mark it with the words "NO HAND ZONE" in front and center of the blade working area. In other words keep your hands or limbs clear of the no hand zone!

To rebut what was said above on an above post here, "and stupid people injure themselves with power tools."
That's not entirely true, as an accident is exactly what it means, its an accident and can happen to the most seasoned wood worker not just uneducated wood workers at any given day or time.

Play safe
Tony Czuleger

I find this post very interesting as many folks I talk to really don't understand what spontaneous combustion really is and how dangerous it can be. Years ago I was working on a addition remodel and a painter on the job had left oil / staining rags on the concrete floor in the garage off the new kitchen. Wala! he burned down the garage. I always set all oil soaked rags on a chain link fence to dry like laundry and never placing one over the other. I just spread them out and the next day they are dry and ready for the garbage can.

Also fresh cut grass can do the same left in a pile and over just one to two days in the summer can start on fire as well. Composting can be a fire danger as well.

Is there a threat to the California Black ( Claro) walnut or the English walnut variety in anyway, that is so common here in California?