Monday, July 15, 2013

never board in New York City



Commercial carting on New York streets can yield the unexpected.


I was along Spring Street the other day and walked right up to this excellent example of roughsawn planking.


The identifying feature-- besides being rough-- is the apparent (huge) blade diameter carved right into the board. This particular plank is poplar.


Blades of this scale,

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in water driven sawmills,

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cut the lumber that built colonial America.


Today it’s just throw-away packing material.


I made this bench when I was a kid
 from an antique slab of chestnut. 

The sawmill blade marks were apparent back then, too.

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