6 Sep
2009
6 Sep
'09
1:23 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Jules
Richardson<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
If you want, you can post something to the woodworking section at
woodnet.net. A lot of the woodworkers there are a bit more serious
about harvesting their own and have their own
portable-sawmill-on-a-trailer thingies. Just remember that the
branches can't be used, no matter how big or straight. You'll want to
dry it the right way also.
woodnet.net. :-)
Quite a lot of antique furniture can still be used today. And they
didn't have modern glues.
brian
Particle board
and MDF (medium density fiberboard) are used in
furniture for one reason. ?It's cheap.
It'd be interesting to know how much useful material a good Oak will provide
- if it's reasonable I'm tempted to throw one of ours at the local sawmill
(we've got about 15 mature Oaks on the property, most of them where we can't
actually see them from the house anyway) - it'd be nice to have a stockpile
of stuff for making things that aren't at the cheap 'n cheerful end. ?But people
have less money to spend. ?You can still buy good quality
furniture, but you'll pay a lot for it. ?Think $2000 for a dresser.
I was lamenting that on a newsgroup a while ago - it seems hard to buy stuff
that's the same quality of 100-200 years ago, no matter how much money you
throw at the problem. Hardly anyone makes it any longer. We spent several
thousand on some tables, and they *look* nice, but the actual underlying
construction isn't anything special. Problem is, nobody for hundreds of
miles around even makes anything better... That $2000
dresser will be in your family 60 years from now.
Maybe. I can see myself needing to do work on ours to keep 'em solid.