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   DelDollens | Jul 17, 2002 09:12pm | #1

   Around here it goes for less than $1.70/bf.-S2S

   OOPS...I didn't notice the width!!!!!  Man...that's a wide board!

   
   

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   Edited 7/17/2002 4:16:27 PM ET by Del

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   PlaneWood | Jul 18, 2002 12:43am | #4

   It ain't a board!  It's a slab cut horizontal off the top of the stump.  Has a weird geometric shape.  The kind you make coffee tables out of I guess??

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_KatyPlaneWood

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   LRutherfor1 | Jul 18, 2002 04:22am | #5

   Because it has a "weird" shape, I'd definitely make a table out of it.  Most of my clients who are in the upper $ market love anything that their next-door-neighbor can't get, and will pay top dollar for them.

   By the way, I took a look at your website, and two comments: nice workmanship, and great site.

   Len (Len's Custom Woodworking)

   Edited 7/17/2002 9:23:43 PM ET by LRUTHERFOR1

   Edited 7/17/2002 9:24:14 PM ET by LRUTHERFOR1

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   LRutherfor1 | Jul 17, 2002 11:01pm | #2

   Out here in the middle of the desert (Las Vegas) ANY wood is precious.  I did buy a truckload of pecky cypress from a contractor that was going out of business a couple of years ago, and here it sells wholesale for $6.00/bf if you can find it.  It all depends on where you live, and how hard it is to find cypress there.

   My suggestion is to build yourself a nice table.  It would be terrible to saw up such a beautiful solid piece of wood.

   Good Luck, Len (Len's Custom Woodworking)

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   LindenVue | Jul 17, 2002 11:46pm | #3

   I'm one up on you. My daughter found me two pieces about three years ago and I still haven't found any other use than a table top.  I'm watching your responses.

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   Alan | Jul 18, 2002 05:34am | #6

   Mike,

   Are you familiar with the work of George Makashima? Takashima? (Another senior moment, sorry.)  If not, see if your library has a book on his furniture.  He pioneered the now familiar style of furniture with organic shapes--usually the shape right off the tree.  With a firm  foundation that might just be the thing for your cypress.

   No!  I will not help you plane it flat!

   Alan

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   DominicG | Jul 18, 2002 08:19pm | #7

   Alan,

   The name you're looking for is "George Nakashima", author of "Soul of the Tree" (or is it "Soul of a Tree"? Whatever,....you get the idea!)

   Nakashima was a incredible woodworker who specialized in artsy, eclectic styled furniture. One such featured a slab of old growth wood with the bark still on it. I think it sold for around $35,000.00 (reproductions of that table were selling for $15,000.00!)

   Nakashima (who has since past away) had a studio in New Hope PA (not far from me). His daughter runs it now. It supposed to be pretty cool to visit.

   Dominic

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   Alan | Jul 18, 2002 08:51pm | #8

   Dominic,

   Thanks for correcting me.  Even as I wrote those two names, they didn't sound right.  It's my curse.  When I was teaching at the university I would apologize to the students for not remembering their names--and I apologized the first day!

   Alan