Many winters ago when I was in college, one of my professors was from Ohio. He grew up in an old family house 100+ years old. They tore into it to do some remodeling or something and discovered the whole house was made with large black walnut timbers. I've read that in the old growth forest, black walnuts got 150 feet tall and had straight, clear trunks for the first 75 feet. It was so common they thought nothing of building house out of it.
I've heard of other stories like that Remington Arms company bought this building that had all been made out of black walnut to use for gun stocks kind of black walnut that doesn't even exist anymore
If you have never worked with wood with your own hands and made the most of the wood you will never understand just how good it feels to finally stand back and appreciate it.
It's a very special feeling when you've completed a project that you put your entire being into, and know that it will outlive you and will be cherished by those who come after you. It's as if part of you lives on.
Lovely superb Nice sawing of American Black Walnut huge timber log. The grain of this log is very good for furniture and after polishing it will be amazing.
Anybody else watch the entire video just to see what the next slab would look like? I knew those center cuts through the crotches would look good, but that figure was amazing! Just one of those really nice center cuts could make about 20 nice rifle stock blanks at an average of $1,000 each. That wood was so nice the cheapest stock out of it would still be around $800, with some of the nicer figured pieces going for around $2,000. That’s before a gunsmith even touches it. I have a buddy that makes custom stocks for rifles and shotguns. His cheapest stocks go for $5,000. Takes him a month to make one. People wonder how he can charge so much. Well, because he buys wood like this, then inlets it by hand, checkers it by hand, then oil finishes it for two weeks in a special box he built for curing stocks. But it all starts with a really nice, really expensive piece of wood. They are beautiful, one if a kind works of art. I can’t afford one, but I can hang out in his shop, admire his craft, and drink his beers 😊
What a beauty. I could cry to see nature’s bounty and beauty . You can not produce this if you tried. Years and years of growing in the forest. That grain.wow.
I had to cut down a big black walnut on my property this morning. Which brings me to this video. My walnut was about 38.5” round at the base. I saved the first three 12’ logs. The base is real narly and will look awesome once ripped long ways I’m gonna mill them up one day soon.
Beautiful, as the 100-125 year old maple and cedar grow old, we are replanting with black walnut. Nice to see what the wood will look like to my great great grandkids.
I see table tops beautiful table tops in lots of different finishes and where the rot was using epoxy in different colors and at least one with a polyurethane finish that look like glass .My dad was wood worker so I learned from him
Would we human beings even have a civilization without wood for building and heat? It is truly a wonderful and critical resource, and a thing of immense beauty as well. What a log!
I called my dad up 30 min ago to inquire about the giant walnuts that are on the family farm. I figured they would make fantastic floors. I think I may have grossly underestimated the value of those trees. 🤔
@@ysasada18 I met George when I was eighteen at his shop in New Hope, Pennsylvania. What an incredibly gifted artist. I miss him and think of him every day. Arigatou gozaimasu
I had a band saw mill slab up an old Black Walnut here at my place a couple years back. It is stickered in my Greenhouse. I milled some up, and it is gorgeous and dense. Super-dense, heavy wood. And you should see it after I fume it with Ammonium Hydroxide. Wow!
I wept as I began to see the lifelines of this majestic tree be revealed. I thought about my mom's life, the life of my grandmother, and all the men and women of my family who came before me at the time this tree was but only a seedling and beyond...How old must she be? 170-200 years old? I know that some trees come to a point where they begin to show that they are at the end of their life span. The limbs begin to break and fall to the ground. I can only hope that this beautiful tree was harvested for similar reasons. That, it was her moment to take on a Whole New Life and be lovingly crafted into spectacular pieces that will be cherished for many more years to come! I'd love to have a live edge table made of a tree so beautiful! I wish this tree, where ever it may go, a beloved and appreciated the journey.💞
Beautiful slabs. Around the middle toward the final slabs, absolutely stunning grain. Looked like a seascape with waves. Very Japanese art form. The sap was creamier than I normally have seen. I mostly work with Cherry, maple, VG fir, or oak, but I've made some furniture with Walnut. Pretty amazing. Thanks.
I cut down 40 black walnut trees off my property 15 years back and sold 90% to gunmakers for stocks I assume. They were the ones paying the best at the time for all the black walnut. I had a 12-15 like this here and the rest slightly smaller. They were very picky I remember on where to cut they wanted certain lengths at crotches etc.
What a very old beautiful tree. I have many black walnut trees on my farm and only about 6 that are this big around. They were planted when my house was built in 1850. Unfortunately one will be coming down when we build our new addition.
In Michigan, I had a customer that wanted a black Walnut tree removed from his backyard. It was so round you could not hug it to touch your hands...took two people to do so. It was clear with no branches from the bottom up thirteen feet before the very first branch. It was huge. I told him to have it harvested for the wood because of the value. He said his tree service told him it didn't have much value, and so they took it. What would a tree's value be like that, clear for thirteen feet, and two people to hug it? I feel they stole that tree from him.
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Many winters ago when I was in college, one of my professors was from Ohio. He grew up in an old family house 100+ years old. They tore into it to do some remodeling or something and discovered the whole house was made with large black walnut timbers. I've read that in the old growth forest, black walnuts got 150 feet tall and had straight, clear trunks for the first 75 feet. It was so common they thought nothing of building house out of it.
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I've heard of other stories like that Remington Arms company bought this building that had all been made out of black walnut to use for gun stocks kind of black walnut that doesn't even exist anymore
Very cool
Only in ohio
Man I would trip if I had run across a house made of walnut.
Such beautiful wood! I would stare at it for hours if it were sanded smooth and polished. I find it comforting.
Yes, you are just awe struck by the grain, the God given wonder of your joy!!
If you have never worked with wood with your own hands and made the most of the wood you will never understand just how good it feels to finally stand back and appreciate it.
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@@ysasada18 Domo arigato gozaimasu
It's a very special feeling when you've completed a project that you put your entire being into, and know that it will outlive you and will be cherished by those who come after you. It's as if part of you lives on.
I absolutely agree 💯
The feel, the intoxicating sent of walnut, maple and cherry, is left to those who are blessed to enjoy!!!
That walnut is beautifully figured!
DAI KIREI DESU 👍💕
It would make some very beautiful rifle stocks !!!
This almost a satisfying as watching wood turning. That grain is absolutely beautiful.
That is the most beautiful piece of wood I have ever seen! I wish I had some of the scraps!
Lovely superb Nice sawing of American Black Walnut huge timber log. The grain of this log is very good for furniture and after polishing it will be amazing.
That's an impressive piece of of wood and a very impressive mill.
Looks like Wuhan....
That is the biggest black walnut I have ever seen! And they are everywhere here. Gorgeous slabs
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Amazing looks like a granite, walnuts furniture really very special,
It broke my heart when my spouse bought some crappy pine end tables with ceramic tops. I had to give up my oak end tables I bought in the 90's.
Anybody else watch the entire video just to see what the next slab would look like? I knew those center cuts through the crotches would look good, but that figure was amazing! Just one of those really nice center cuts could make about 20 nice rifle stock blanks at an average of $1,000 each. That wood was so nice the cheapest stock out of it would still be around $800, with some of the nicer figured pieces going for around $2,000. That’s before a gunsmith even touches it. I have a buddy that makes custom stocks for rifles and shotguns. His cheapest stocks go for $5,000. Takes him a month to make one. People wonder how he can charge so much. Well, because he buys wood like this, then inlets it by hand, checkers it by hand, then oil finishes it for two weeks in a special box he built for curing stocks. But it all starts with a really nice, really expensive piece of wood. They are beautiful, one if a kind works of art. I can’t afford one, but I can hang out in his shop, admire his craft, and drink his beers 😊
You write about cutting down a majestic tree to use it's wood for the making of weapons. Idiot.
Gorgeous wood, i have 15 black walnut trees in my back yard. I use the saplings for hiking sticks.
white beard and endless walnuts!
excellent gunstock wood with all those curvy crotch grain pieces
What a beauty. I could cry to see nature’s bounty and beauty . You can not produce this if you tried. Years and years of growing in the forest. That grain.wow.
I had to cut down a big black walnut on my property this morning.
Which brings me to this video.
My walnut was about 38.5” round at the base.
I saved the first three 12’ logs.
The base is real narly and will look awesome once ripped long ways
I’m gonna mill them up one day soon.
Beautiful, as the 100-125 year old maple and cedar grow old, we are replanting with black walnut. Nice to see what the wood will look like to my great great grandkids.
I see table tops beautiful table tops in lots of different finishes and where the rot was using epoxy in different colors and at least one with a polyurethane finish that look like glass .My dad was wood worker so I learned from him
A god given thing of beauty. Rare in the extreme. Handle with the utmost care. Every slab could be a master work of art.
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Yes that is valuable wood even in America, I hope he gets use of all the pieces, and sales at good price.
O M G !!!! Such a beautiful collection of Rifles Stocks! Thank you!
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That was my first thought. I see walnut, I think rifle stock.
You don't get to see this beauty often in life . people. Would die for a slab . Beautiful.
After the second cut, the remaining log looked like a modern art masterpiece.
As I watch I am sensing the sweet smell of the wood. I made a rocking chair out of walnut and I recall the sweet aroma.
love seeing the end of the log go past the saw! saw run out ends up in the sawyers lap! thanks for showing!
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Would we human beings even have a civilization without wood for building and heat?
It is truly a wonderful and critical resource, and a thing of immense beauty as well. What a log!
And a renewable resource.
@@ricovali9245 in 100-150 years, sure. Just we've fucked up the world enough to no more full grown trees in 50 years...
The last cuts after they rotated the Walnut look like a pair of eyes.
This log turned out to be a gold mine!!
Beautiful slabs! 👍👍 Thanks for sharing
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What an incredible piece of wood...God's a genius.
and that ladies & gentlemen is called really expensive wood.
100K log
I called my dad up 30 min ago to inquire about the giant walnuts that are on the family farm. I figured they would make fantastic floors. I think I may have grossly underestimated the value of those trees. 🤔
I`m just planting 200 pieces for my 2 year old son!
this is the most beautiful wood i have ever seen,very nice video.
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I have 4 black walnut trees down in my back yard right now. About 24 inch in diameter and 25 feet
If you have kids. You have college money. Black Walnut was high 20 years ago.
Slabs for some beautiful tables? Would love to see the finished product.
Imagine turning that into paneling (much thinner of course) and using it on the walls of a cigar and bar room just the way it is in full pieces!
Considering those are 8 quarter slabs I would venture to say that that piece of lumber is worth well over $50,000.
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What a beautiful tree being cut up. I wish I could buy just one salad. That would make a amazing table
I look at that wood as you're sawing it and I see beautiful tables, and chairs all designed to show off that grain.
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Next time put some extra video after each cut to show us how the slab ended up looking. Beautiful stuff. Serious blade!
slab with the blue tag is nice . Great sawing
It reminds me of wood I saw in the late George Nakashima's shop. Beautiful
I know George Nakajima.
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@@ysasada18 I met George when I was eighteen at his shop in New Hope, Pennsylvania. What an incredibly gifted artist. I miss him and think of him every day. Arigatou gozaimasu
My acquaintance is doing his museum.
He is a furniture dealer.
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That is magnificent lumber. My God, it's beautiful. I hope it became something breathtaking.
I had a band saw mill slab up an old Black Walnut here at my place a couple years back. It is stickered in my Greenhouse. I milled some up, and it is gorgeous and dense. Super-dense, heavy wood. And you should see it after I fume it with Ammonium Hydroxide. Wow!
I wonder what the worth of the boards are? Some sawmill man on here has to have a ballpark figure. Beautiful wood.
I could watch this all day.
I wept as I began to see the lifelines of this majestic tree be revealed. I thought about my mom's life, the life of my grandmother, and all the men and women of my family who came before me at the time this tree was but only a seedling and beyond...How old must she be? 170-200 years old? I know that some trees come to a point where they begin to show that they are at the end of their life span. The limbs begin to break and fall to the ground. I can only hope that this beautiful tree was harvested for similar reasons. That, it was her moment to take on a Whole New Life and be lovingly crafted into spectacular pieces that will be cherished for many more years to come! I'd love to have a live edge table made of a tree so beautiful! I wish this tree, where ever it may go, a beloved and appreciated the journey.💞
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@@ysasada18 Thank you, Sir. Much respect and blessing to you!
A wonderful comment devoted to a wonderful piece of God’s creativity. Thank you.
♥️ this is a great comment.
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I like the black walnut very very beautiful.
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I don't know whether I am more impressed with the saw or the log.
Black walnut is the most beautiful wood. When I die I want my casket to be made of black walnut.
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12:55 was my favorite piece. I think I saw the Hermit of the Tarot figure.
11:35 good too.
Fantastic gunstock , luthier , and furniture lumber !
You May think I am odd, but saw all kinds on animals in the grain of this wood! Bear, crocodiles, penguin, and even a hummingbird!
not at all, that's the magic of this wood.
Me too.
Que madeira maravilhosa, só mesmo a Natureza para criar essas obras de arte.
Beautiful slabs. Around the middle toward the final slabs, absolutely stunning grain. Looked like a seascape with waves. Very Japanese art form. The sap was creamier than I normally have seen. I mostly work with Cherry, maple, VG fir, or oak, but I've made some furniture with Walnut. Pretty amazing. Thanks.
Wow that's unbelievably beautiful wood that's a once in a lifetime log
Such beautiful grain, I love this.
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Beautiful wood, skilfully cut. Well done, I hope it made marvellous furniture.!!
Wow what a beautiful tree that is very nice grain pattern
I’m watching this and wishing I had a small slab for a new guitar body. Imagining how beautiful that would look.
Look for 'guitar blanks' on Ebay?
That is the most beautiful walnut I have ever seen. Thank you
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I like the irregular shapes, especially from the first cuts. Beautiful wood.
We have much of it were I live, it use to bring more money than it does now, it has a unique smell when sawing it.
When burning in a woodstove, it smells like you're baking a cake!!
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I cut down 40 black walnut trees off my property 15 years back and sold 90% to gunmakers for stocks I assume. They were the ones paying the best at the time for all the black walnut. I had a 12-15 like this here and the rest slightly smaller. They were very picky I remember on where to cut they wanted certain lengths at crotches etc.
One of my favorite woods. I turn a lot of it and still have a nice supply of it.
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Wow that is beautiful
I would like to see the rest of the process
Cuts like Butter!! 👍
Absolutely incredible wood
That would make a awesome coffee table
What a beautiful tree!!
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What a very old beautiful tree. I have many black walnut trees on my farm and only about 6 that are this big around. They were planted when my house was built in 1850. Unfortunately one will be coming down when we build our new addition.
Prob pay for the addition
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Amazing! No annoying music
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American Wood... Clearly the best wood... God Bless the USA
Beautiful amazing center cuts!
Beautiful tree, and the cutting is great
In Michigan, I had a customer that wanted a black Walnut tree removed from his backyard. It was so round you could not hug it to touch your hands...took two people to do so. It was clear with no branches from the bottom up thirteen feet before the very first branch. It was huge. I told him to have it harvested for the wood because of the value. He said his tree service told him it didn't have much value, and so they took it. What would a tree's value be like that, clear for thirteen feet, and two people to hug it? I feel they stole that tree from him.
Such beautiful grain
I hope it will be used to make an unique piece of furniture
Beautiful, I wish I could make a epoxy based table of it
Nice saw.. Pretty wood..
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That is so beautiful
Number 3 looked like a piece of art
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Muito bonitas essas tábuas,para fazer uma mesa,vai ficá show de bola,parabéns.
Resinada fica um show 😍🤣🤣🤣
Very nice!!!
Thank you for showing us this.
OMG that is gorgeous!
Hell we have that all the time here in the great state of Missouri . Makes good gun stocks
One of the best hardwood grain and color...
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Black walnut is a very slow growing tree. This log is probably several hundred years old. I don't know just guessing what do ya'll THINK?
That is masive.greet work like to learn more.
That is one gorgeous wood.
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I don't know nothing of these tree but with every cut seemed to get better and better
good job guys.....beautiful wood.
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1:32 after the 2nd cut the log looked like a grim reaper lol
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This is just satisfying to watch
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Magnificent wood. 👍😁 I would like all my furniture to be from this wood. 😇
Красивые распилы!!!
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Beautiful woods and grains
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Nice video.
Arigatou gozaimasu.
Nice slabs, no nails or spikes. Thanks for posting sir.
yes
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That’s big big bucks there, nice walnut, 150 plus years old I’m sure
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