massive walnut beams
massive walnut beams
These massive 12" thick walnut beams just arrived back from the kiln yesterday.
I have more than a habit of pushing limits and taking passions to extremes, but these massive walnut slabs might just take the cake. Six years ago, when I began working with these (originally) logs, I know I must have had a wonderful clear vision of where I was going. Well, I'm not 54 years old, my memory seems to be holding up pretty well, but I don't have a clue of just what I had in mind.
This 40' trailer load of recently kiln dried walnut slabs included 9 of these massive 12 inches thick. Gosh, just getting them into our studio last night, then two of them back out to the sawmill for cleaning up, was quite a project. By the way, they are 12' long! No clue how much they weight, but my 5000 pound capacity forklift had no trouble with the group of 9.
Today we cut one of the 12' beams into 3 pieces. I'm thinking benches, and possibly table pedistals right now. And for the benches, I'm leaning toward my first bench with casters. Been wanting to do rolling tables/benches for quite a while now. But haven't yet been able to find an all American made caster.
Do I give up and use imported, or just give up??
