Hi Mark, you should definitely use it in your own shop beech is a very good and forgiving wood to work with and machines up very easily. Iv used alot of spalted beech for cabinets etc the colours looks amazing.
Beech forest is nice. There's one near me. Tall trees with a dense canopy. Virtually nothing grows on the floor. With all the vertical trunks, it's like walking through a cathedral.
We love your channel no matter what you’re doing! I think you should autograph sections of that first slice (the one that’s mostly bark) you cut off & sell them or give away to your viewers. I know we would enjoy one! I bet others would too!
Thanks both of you great as usual the film companies spend vast fortunes on productions and special effects you two do it on a budget of a cup of coffee and it's perfect
Man! T.H.E. Eddie went from looking like my grandpaw to looking like my son. What a transformation. Looks good. I'm only in my 70's and I can't look that good.
Beech is used a lot in England for making furniture and tool handles. Fine grain, very hard, stable if properly seasoned, cuts clean and finishes smooth. It was also used to make gunstocks for Lee-Enfield rifles from about 1943 onwards until the end of production.
WOW What great looking wood for a table top. Imagine that as a farm style dining room table. Wish I had a wood shop. I'd get about 4 of those slabs each about 2" thick, cut them about 8' long, make them a 2' X 2 square, plane them smooth them glue me up a great table top. I can only dream. Thanks for the video. Be safe and well.
Beech is also popular with some gun makers who want wood stocks but not the expense of walnut. A lot of high end air rifles from Europe are stocked in walnut-stained beech. Very stable. The zero on my Air Arms TX200 barely budges from year to year. The backyard squirrels are not amused.
I made a set of doors & panels for a kitchen reface out of Beech from Germany. It was clear and very stable. I found myself using the off fall for lots of jigs and fixtures. Dense but very workable.
Great to see beech on the mill. It’s one of my favorite woods to work. Machines really nicely. I built a Roubo workbench of beech (mostly - some mahogany, birch, and ash) last year. Grew up in a log house in TN with a tin roof and a huge beech in the front yard. Would go to sleep with the pitter-patter of beechnuts on the tin.
well mark the beech logs seemed more ignorant than the spruce you sawed the other day.lol.my memory not working real good and i'm not sure if thats what you called it but whatever it tickled me.love to hear the bus engine when it's loaded.i just flat out love ya'lls videos.
NIOCE sawing nd you ought to take some of the 'cull' stuff home and make something with it. Nice grain and patterning.. Can't recall ever cutting beech here but I've slept a lot since them days. Good job to all and to all a GBWYou!
In the UK Buckinghamshire had a lot of beech woods and subsequently a big furniture industry developed especially chairs. It is also used for gunstocks for cheaper brands.
After running errands and having to deal with TRAFFIC. Thank GOD you and Eddie have another new sawing VIDEO, GOD BLESS THE BUS MOTOR MEN. I would have watch an older sawing video. I find it to be therapeutic. If you are going to have a T-Shirt with """MASTER DOG""" IN THE REAR AND FRONT WITH BUS MOTOR PRODUCTION LET ME KNOW. I just might get TWO for my wife ROSIE(of 48yrs)and I.
Mark check the main belts on the saw they seem to have a lot more bounce now and getting lose, the Beach is very pretty wood it just needs to be kiln dried to be stable enough to do fine wood working with out it moving.
G'day Mark , I slabbed one on the Lucas mill live edge 3 inch thick it was 100 years old it had been planted as an ornamental obviously not native to Oz. I was surprised by its hardness and figure.
This good hard wood for furniture, but you have to just slab it and let it dry and then resaw dry and discard the pit. Best way to keep it dimensionally stable is to cut it wet, pressure steam it and kiln dry. Any knots and character in this is just firewood, not worth to bother with it as it cracks and warps like crazy.
We sell beech but it is imported from Germany. For a while cabinet makers were building cabinets out of beech and beech plywood. Not so much now. Beech is 1300 on the hardness scale close to red ( tad softer)and white oak (tad harder)
@@andrewriches506 I have 2 of them and just ordered me a Antonini that is similar . I am on disability so I live on $1298 a month so it is hard to do things like collecting anything but these type of knives are low priced
@@jerrywestaway9316 I like my Opinel because it had a locking ferrule so was able to use in the cattle yards without the blade unexpectedly closing and trapping my fingers also they sit nice and comfortable in the hand. Best regards from Lincolnshire UK.
@@jerrywestaway9316 Thanks for the info Jerry I will look up the Antonini. Although I have now retired it is still interesting to know what is available in the market Thank you.
I spent most of life in your area that might of been my name on that tree. I milled a small beech a few weeks ago for the first time It’s really nice looking wood.
Brownsville and California. Fayette and Washington co. Moved north to Warren co 6years ago. Picked up my saw 2 months ago in green co. All my family is still down there. That’s why I’m up here.
American Beech, interesting! European Beech is by far the most common hardwood in my area, we use it for firewood mostly sadly but you find lots of furniture etc in Europe made from Beech since it's so ideal, clear grained and grows quite neatly. Would be intersted to compare the two species and see the difference, it looks quite similar but this American stuff seems to have a bit more colour variation.
Hi Mark, you don't see many Beach trees these days... I am lucky to have a 100+ ear old Beach in my back yard that is approx 8 foot in diameter..... Huge is an under statement
As Scandinavian, i didnt realise "Beech" was a real actual word, i thought it was a play with words, "Beech/Bitch".......im like, "how sour does a log has to be in order to be called a bitch?", (not making this up!)
