Some of the Wood

Here is another pile of wood I just came up with for the lathe. These were trunks of cedar trees blown over in 1999, the rest of the tree was cut up and gone back then.  There is a photo of these trees in a picture taken in 1874, so this is old growth wood. Now to see what I can make from it.

Was also given a part of a walnut log cut many years ago.

Did make my first large bowl from this log.

Starting to run low on wood, I hope spring gets here soon so I can cut some more trees down.

This is the method I use when I want to saw a round log on the bandsaw.  I only had this small blank to demo with but I use a bar clamp to use a a lever or handle to keep the log from spinning when it contacts the blade. For larges chunks I have actually put a clamp on both ends of the log as handles, then the cutofff and waste side have their own handles to keep them from spinning and the long handles give better control for moving the log into the blade.