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nice walker

Carving and Turning is my life

That’s pretty neat.
The only time I used a 2×4 in one of my project I regretted that decision. There were too much stress inside the lumber with a lot of small fractures. That project ended in the green bin.

Yours turned out really nice.

Abbas, Castro Valley, CA

I’ve been using 2×4′s for fine woodwork forty years. To be fair, they were better back when I started (e.g., tighter grain and actual fir). Back in the day, lumber yard guys told me I couldn’t use lumber for picture frames and such. However, my picture frames, some nearly six feet tall (with tunnel cuts) are still doing fine, over thirty years later.

For the heck of it, I’ll start a new post with a couple examples. Keep in mind, I only use the light ones (low moisture content).

All that said, yep, I’ve split a few 2×4′s into 2×2′s, for construction use, that proved the need for splitters. Others went the other way and tried to spit themselves apart.

Cool design

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