we did something ,slicing for coasters long long ago with a big
cedar tree a friend wanted down when I had just enough sight to
knocke dout the phone lines but If I remember correctly the cedar
did not have the sap like the pine or Christmas trees.. good luck. Lee
On
Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 06:24:55PM -0600, Bill
Gallik wrote:
> The first thing you'll want to do is to make certain all the pitch is out of
> the part of the trunk you decide to work with. Then after the pitch is clear
> I'd put a heavy coating of clear lacquer on this piece of tree trunk and let
> it dry thoroughly. Then, using an electric miter (chop) saw, cut your pieces
> for the coasters. The miter saw should have sufficient clamping to maintain
> the cuts as you want them. And if you use a saw blade with fine teeth the
> bark should remain in tact.
>
> In fact, if you don't have a miter saw, send me the piece of tree trunk (no
> more than a 6 inch long piece please) and I'll cut the circles for you and
> send them back -- no charge. That was 3/8" you wanted, right?
> --
> Merry Christmas
> Holland, Chillie & Bill
> >From Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Nephew Fred admonishes Scrooge
> >for his lack of Christmas spirit:
> "`There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have
> not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the rest.
> But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round
> -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything
> belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving,
> charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of
> the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts
> freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were
> fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on
> other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold
> or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me
> good; and I say, God bless it!'"
>
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>
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Is not that the nature of men and women -- that the pleasure is in the
learning of each other?
-- Natira, the High Priestess of Yonada, "For the World is
Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", stardate 5476.3.
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