This is English burr Elm.
In it’s previous roll it was a beam in a very old thatched cottage. Due to the ravages of Dutch Elm disease, large Elm trees are now virtually extinct in England, there are just a couple of small pockets of trees left and also some in Scotland.
French Elm is available, but it just does not have the character of the English wood. Luckily I have more than enough from the cottage to last me out.
It’s unfortunate about the loss of species of trees, truly beautiful wood.
We had the same problem in USA with Dutch Elm. I can remember growing up on the farm we had a feeble one growing in one of our fields. Unfortunately it didn’t survive either. I love repurposed wood like this! Occasionally I have the opportunity to “harvest” and repurpose some wormy Chestnut lumber from a remodeled house…beautiful lumber with added character of small worm holes throughout. Chestnut was also ravaged by disease and completely decimated.
Uh, decimated == 10% casualties.
Do you mean “completely wiped out/exterminated/extinguished/extinct”?
There are literally no Chestnut trees in our area anymore.
I just looked up decimated. I see what you’re saying @WillAdams . But it also means “kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage of.” That was the definition I was using, not the historical definition of “kill one in every 10 of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.”
I have one of those from my grand father !
2’ x 3’ sign in HDU.
A lesson learned on this one. After posting the unpainted version of this carve previously, I discovered the stock was out of square by 1/8 on 2’, thus leaving the border on the left side running from 5/8" wide to 3/4" wide. It was supposed to be 3/4". I had to redo the entire project. Ugh. I hate wasting so much time and material. Lesson learned: check square on your stock every time before running a project.
I was extremely pleased with the end product though!!
Sound like a perfect time to install and cut a square reference fence!!
Yep! You know that’s right 
Lovely work, how did you get such clean painting - assume it’s MDF with a white coat of paint and a black coat of paint? There’s no bleed or anything.
It’s HDU not MDF. Spray painting the background and foam roller on the raised parts with some minor amount of touch up. Painting is my wife’s side of the business and she’s pretty good at it!
Chalk this one up to what I DIDN’T carve on my Shapeoko today. I have a few slices of tree trunks from the farm I grew up on that need to be surfaced. Discovered the limits of the thickness capability of the pro 5. Looks like I will have to go a different route for surfacing.
You might be able to do this by disabling the BitSetter and shifting the spindle up in the mount.
Ive often thought about removing the middle boards to lower something like this. Essentially having an adjustable platform at any height below. I would imagine this is frowned upon, maybe. Ive never done it but maybe it has been done?
I guess you would need a hole in your table as well.
As long as the bottom of the Z clears the material. If the bottom of the Z does not clear then you cannot. As others pointed out you can move the spindle up. Just keep your finger on the stop button in case things dont go right.
Unless you are doing a lot of slab flattening this would not be worth it. I watched a video reviewing a Vevor slab flattening. I think it is about $175.00 on Amazon. Amazon days are coming up and it will be cheaper.
The other alternative would be to chainsaw the piece to make it shorter.
What will you make from your cookie?
I just installed the risers from pwncnc.
That gives me 5.3 under the z transom.
Hard to tell what I’ll make from it. Honestly, I just wanted to try out my new surfacing bit, and that slab was on my list of things to do.
Have you had a chance to run anything with these on yet? Very interesting!! And just for $100!!
Any input from Carbide 3d on these. They seem almost like a no brainier to easily get additional height.
I have run a few items. This has been nothing but good. The deep sweepy works better on tall items.
No brainer, after 2 years
