Uses for long walnut crotch feathers?

Mike1950

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Karl, I am a bad procrastinator. This piece is ready to hang as a wall hanging. It’s looked like this for two years. Just need to add a hanger on the back lol.
Like others have said and I m sure you know let it dry slowly. Good luck bud!

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When run as cabinet doors I have always seen solid wood with its checks filled with epoxy and then top bottom and sides coated with epoxy. At 6/4 you are looking at probably 2 years air drying with the last 6 months in the house ( under the bed) because of that crotch figure. If you AS it , then maybe 3 years. Your best off following @Mike1950 instructions, I believe he has the more years of experience in this. I am fresh on the furniture part of this stuff.
Slow is good. I have wild walnut figure in my credenza. It has flaws. Maybe I can find them maybe. You can fill.
 

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There is a large gun stocker supplier out west and he has all the crotch slabs air drying in stacks (stickered) under a roof over hang (for shade) and he puts plastic wrap around the crotch section to help retard the checking.
 

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We have no way to resaw something this wide without using my chainsaw mill again which would cut a very large kerf in the 6/4 board. Sure would be nice to have a bandsaw mill for cutting something like this, but I haven’t convinced my wife on letting me buy one of those yet. For now, I might just offer to put some of the walnut boards in my homemade kiln if I get to keep one for all my trouble.
feel free to send it to vegas, i have a band saw mill and will cut it thinner. no warranty as to results or returns :sofa:
 
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