Over the river and through the woods

 Took the journey out to just east of Marshall, California to select a couple of pieces of wood for the next object to make.

 

For future readers, California had some record setting rains for the past couple weeks, my journey to see Sensei Shively, the wood guy was on one of the sunny days between downpours.  Hence the title of this post.  Water everywhere and downed trees.

I had emailed ahead to talk about the object I'm making so there were three piles of different woods for me to look over by the time I got there.

Some Black Acacia, Bay Laurel and California Sycamore.  All local, it's like tree to workshop to finished piece all from a hundred mile radius.

I chose the Sycamore.  Will be exciting, I've never worked with Sycamore before.  Will be like a new lover, finding out things, discovering how to approach and finesse and coax.  Give and get.

I can only resaw to a little over 16" (410mm) and rather than battling that initial hurdle, I had Shively's guy resaw one piece down for me.

Bringing the one piece down to the smallest of the bandsaws.

Mike is the man who ran the saw for the last wood I got from here.  He cut that in 2011 so he's been doing this for awhile here at Arborica.

I was a bit surprised to see Mike using a ruler to measure.  He said the machine was built in Poland (I think) and is in Metric and still prefers Imperial.

Since we're down to one small city car at this point, the wood must be delivered.  Coming tomorrow.

Bonus Pic!

Forgot to add this in the last post below.  A real live photo set!!!