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nasty suprise

Posted by William McCauley on September 14, 2011 at 1:36pm in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

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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  • Wade September 14, 2011 at 10:01pm

     

    Sounds to me like ya could make some good box corner braces!

    I also make small fires in my camp grill with some scraps and make smores' with the family! MMMM eatin' smores and playin' a CBG by the campfire - life is good!

  • William McCauley September 14, 2011 at 7:43pm
    I've still got them all, they are pretty scarred up though. Like they say "crap happens".

    DonnieC said:
    Ruined wood, broke dump truck, damn, spilt my beer. time for a song fer sure. Hows bouts,"happy day, Kept me fingers"
  • DonnieC September 14, 2011 at 5:29pm
    Ruined wood, broke dump truck, damn, spilt my beer. time for a song fer sure. Hows bouts,"happy day, Kept me fingers"
  • William McCauley September 14, 2011 at 5:21pm

    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 !!
  • William McCauley September 14, 2011 at 5:18pm
    If it was one of the species you listed then I would have been a lot more upset.

    Wes "Moaning Mule" Yates said:

    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!
  • Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates September 14, 2011 at 5:04pm

    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!
  • Richard G Caudill September 14, 2011 at 4:58pm
    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 !!
  • William McCauley September 14, 2011 at 4:49pm

    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!
  • Ron "Oily" Sprague September 14, 2011 at 4:14pm
    Darn...definitely subject material for a song, though.

    Wait: bridges!
  • William McCauley September 14, 2011 at 4:04pm

    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!
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