cutting cherry trees down, possible gun stock blanks?

[Phantom 631]

I want to see the oven in your house tthat can make a stutzen stock! Whole hog roast time! LOL!

 

Thing is even the simplest stock is too big for the average oven, unless you are making one for an S200! Pistol grips are a possibility though. Thinking about kilns, it might be worth having a word with local schools and colleges. Why? Pottery kilns! Pay them a fiver to bung it in when they have turned it off at the end of the day etc as long as it is about 100 degrees celcius when it is bunged in it should retain the heat for a good 4-6 hours! Should dry it nicely, get an entire stock or 8 in one of those!

Tony, I said put it in whilst cooling down, not running flat out, sheesh, put it into one running at full tilt and it will come out as kit form wood, glue atom a into atom b job.....

 

Mike, you are correct about them retaining the heat for hours

 

But who's going to wait for hours after school/college in order to bung in a piece of wood?

Even at 100'C (complicated bit here) the wood, would not survive as the heat would steam the wood and feck it up big time To dry wood correctly in a kiln, takes days or weeks (depending on type of wood) at a constant heat in order to minimise drying time

 

Tony

[kanny 20,649]

I want to see the oven in your house tthat can make a stutzen stock! Whole hog roast time! LOL!

 

Thing is even the simplest stock is too big for the average oven, unless you are making one for an S200! Pistol grips are a possibility though. Thinking about kilns, it might be worth having a word with local schools and colleges. Why? Pottery kilns! Pay them a fiver to bung it in when they have turned it off at the end of the day etc as long as it is about 100 degrees celcius when it is bunged in it should retain the heat for a good 4-6 hours! Should dry it nicely, get an entire stock or 8 in one of those!

Tony, I said put it in whilst cooling down, not running flat out, sheesh, put it into one running at full tilt and it will come out as kit form wood, glue atom a into atom b job.....

 

Mike, you are correct about them retaining the heat for hours

 

But who's going to wait for hours after school/college in order to bung in a piece of wood?

Even at 100'C (complicated bit here) the wood, would not survive as the heat would steam the wood and feck it up big time To dry wood correctly in a kiln, takes days or weeks (depending on type of wood) at a constant heat in order to minimise drying time

 

Tony

 

yup theres no quick way or it just becomes unstable im a cabinet maker and use kiln dried wood alot and its shite nothing beats plain old seasoning when it comes to drying wood like i said before 8 years should do it nice

[aitch2o 0]

im trying to accelerate the drying by storing in my greenhouse- hope theres no splitting!