For a minute while at my parents house I went down to look at some of the lumber we had cut from trees that were recently downed at their house. We had some maple and mulberry slabs cut out of it with a natural edge. Dad has some ideas that he would like to do once it is seasoned, but my goal from the start has been to use this wood to make matchlock stocks with. Last year I completed a from-scratch build of a matchlock musket (a link to the video can be found HERE). It was a sort of prototype/ proof of concept considering I had never made anything like that before. As I was looking at the mulberry slabs (which are around 3'' thick) I saw there was a large crack down one section of one. I decided to use the table saw to cut a board out of this slab along the crack. I hauled the entire slab up onto the table by myself, and it was not light. After sawing the wood into a plank roughly 6''x3''x60'' long I then cut that into two 30'' pieces. I plan to make a long, cavalry style pistol or carbine out of this using a short barrel in the future, but the wood still needs to further season before I undertake this. This is all part of my tooling up for my next series of projects. Once I complete COAL REPUBLIC, the animated feature I have been working on for the better part of 4 years now, I am moving away from animation and back to working with building things with my hands. I really miss that. Currently I am just trying to get the infrastructure in place so that when this transition happens it is fairly smooth and painless.
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