Available Palm Logs Thread: 9 logs in San Diego+2 in HB-free to carvers - Tiki Carving

BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 3:26 PM I went and checked out the logs today. Much nicer than I expected. I will end up taking all of these since they are so good. So, most of these will now be available to anyone else who wants them for free, until I actually go and get them myself. Then you are SOL. People ask me where I get all my logs all of the time and say that they cannot get good logs. I'm surprised that not one person showed any interest at all in these. Oh well! I'll just keep taking all the logs, and all the jobs that come with them... These were from the top of the tree and are around 4-6' each. About 10-13" diameter. sometimes the upper most logs are prone to extensive cracking. This is the new growth section and is not as dense as the lower portions. You can see the rings around couple of logs(looks like tires)This shows the two types of composition of these logs. The dark stuff on the outside is the firm old growth. The white center is softer, newer and wetter. This section usually has so much water in it, that it cracks upon drying throughout. Look for logs that keep the edge pattern all the way through the center, like in the last picture on this post. If you get an old log from the bottom of the tree like this, it is about as perfect of a piece of wood to work with as I could possibly imagine. They never crack and are soft and easy to work with, relatively speaking. These two are 8-9' and about 17-19" diameter. Huge! That is one of the most beautiful things on earth...8' long-15" diameter When using Mexican Fan Palms, you want logs that look like this on the end. This tree was cut down months ago and has no cracks in the base logs whatsoever. These will hold fine detail and be firm and perfrect to the center. These type rarely crack. This particular one was a very old, well established, and slow growing tree. It was grown in a hot inland environment and was not overwatered. Trees like this are an absolute premium. Act now! Snooze you lose. I'm starting to haul these to my house next week. Tick, tick, tick... Log Baron Buzzy Out!

I went and checked out the logs today. Much nicer than I expected. I will end up taking all of these since they are so good. So, most of these will now be available to anyone else who wants them for free, until I actually go and get them myself. Then you are SOL. People ask me where I get all my logs all of the time and say that they cannot get good logs. I'm surprised that not one person showed any interest at all in these. Oh well! I'll just keep taking all the logs, and all the jobs that come with them...

These were from the top of the tree and are around 4-6' each. About 10-13" diameter. sometimes the upper most logs are prone to extensive cracking. This is the new growth section and is not as dense as the lower portions. You can see the rings around couple of logs(looks like tires)This shows the two types of composition of these logs. The dark stuff on the outside is the firm old growth. The white center is softer, newer and wetter. This section usually has so much water in it, that it cracks upon drying throughout. Look for logs that keep the edge pattern all the way through the center, like in the last picture on this post. If you get an old log from the bottom of the tree like this, it is about as perfect of a piece of wood to work with as I could possibly imagine. They never crack and are soft and easy to work with, relatively speaking.

These two are 8-9' and about 17-19" diameter. Huge!

That is one of the most beautiful things on earth...8' long-15" diameter

When using Mexican Fan Palms, you want logs that look like this on the end. This tree was cut down months ago and has no cracks in the base logs whatsoever. These will hold fine detail and be firm and perfrect to the center. These type rarely crack. This particular one was a very old, well established, and slow growing tree. It was grown in a hot inland environment and was not overwatered. Trees like this are an absolute premium.

Act now! Snooze you lose. I'm starting to haul these to my house next week. Tick, tick, tick...
Log Baron Buzzy Out!

Post #245336 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 3:26 PM