Spalted Silver Maple Slabbing - Smaller Log

Last time we sliced up the longer section of this silver maple tree that was topped and left standing for 5 years. This time we'll continue on and slice up the shorter section. This one is from the base of the tree with a diameter close to 3'.
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[@umbalaba]

I love how you read the log's outward signs of flames, quilting and spalting and afterwards you open up the log and we get to see what is inside. I learn so much from this. Thank you!

[@crossgrainwoodproductsltd9230]

I' am sitting watching you climb on top of that rather large log and rocking it until you got some movement just to move it a foot!. You are a slight man but with the strength and fortitude of 2 men. Your nonstop energy inspires me to get out in my shop when I think I can't go any further. If you can do it, then any of us can.

[@JasonBarre]

You are a scholar and a gentleman and a teacher. Thank you for all three things. :)

[@mcremona]

Much appreciated :)

[@frankingram3382]

Marc watching this video I noticed that you stacked cuts one on top of the other. That's good but if someone was searching for a special pattern and you knew you had just what he needed, toward the bottom of the stack. I know you would move the stack to get to it for him to see. Think about this: if you take a picture of each slab and number them you could show him all you have and never move a slab. God Bless my friend.

[@davidgardiner9011]

Frank Ingra

[@lemagreengreen]

What beautiful wood, I really like this one. Something else struck me in this video - I think of the sawmills of the past, the size and noise of the machinery, the multiple guys needed to operate them etc. and I watch this and it's honestly a technological marvel seeing your sawmill effortlessly slab up this giant piece of maple. That motor is hugely powerful for its size!

[@lutemule]

A ten horse motor..watch the build videos they are great.

[@billyd2593]

A skid steer with pallet forks would be a wonderful addition to your setup for log/lumber movement and even log procurement. In my opinion better than a forklift because they handle the uneven terrain much better. Great vids and channel. Many thanks for the content

[@watong9232]

This was surprisingly thrilling. It's like breaking the lock on an old treasure chest, seeing what's inside, closing the lid and reopening it to have the contents changed.

[@holdemNE1]

Thanks for taking us along on a hard day's work. Well done.

[@tammyfinch5469]

I love going through the logs as you cut them. Even the plainest can be beautiful after its cut.

[@kenjett2434]

Its amazing what awaits when you open up what to most is firewood or garbage. Those slabs are almost priceless and hold incredible value. Once in a finished product it will be worth thousands. Gives a whole new aspect to into this type of milling and wood recovery.

[@loue6563]

This was so great. Love spalted wood , those last few were just so incredible!

[@daveharrington7500]

Thanks for including the blade folding and blade change. Very interesting.

[@arimadx]

Oh wooooow those slabs were beautiful! I'd love to make something out of that! I LOVE spalted wood! Soooo pretty

[@TheHandToolery]

Stunning! Absolutely beautiful slabs.

[@wb_finewoodworking]

Another amazing log. WOW!

[@rodschelin3470]

Every time you throw water on a new slab, I imagine what a nice table it would make. If I could purchase every slab I like, there wouldn't be enough conferences in Minnesota for all those conference tables.

[@agarguest]

i love watching your slabbing videos

[@ernabueing4250]

That was a beautiful log and can't wait to see what you are going to make out of it.

[@ellenl.5581]

Someone got it dirty. That is lovely. After the other, who would have thought? No splits. A different kind of beauty.

[@josephharrison3639]

Another great video thank you Matt. That last plank the design ,and colors are something I’ve never seen!! I have worked with wood my whole life. Never have I seen you’r type of wood? well ,now I have to make a visit to Canada. I’am misssing the best of all woods!!

[@brianskudney8448]

Very nice. Those spalt lines & color 😍. Plus that diagonal one at the end. 👍😍👍

[@ronnybogaerts3359]

beautyful slabs there matt. lots of nice furniture coming. thanks for sharing and keep on happy milling.

[@mcremona]

thanks!

[@zippy3711]

Why is it....I can just keep watching these videos ? I wanna go out to the cord wood pile and cut some up. Great stuff.

[@mcremona]

Do it!!

[@stevengates8351]

"Kinda the same thing" and yet still exciting. Cool attitude!

[@nordyfamily]

Great job Matt!..

[@jeffforbes3772]

Next to those slabs, you're the coolest Matt.

[@mcremona]

hahahaha thanks Jeff!

[@StudioJLT]

Geez man, this one had it all! Jump kicks, arty music montage clips, insect genocide, and a shrinking bandsaw!

[@mcremona]

Literally everything!

[@KSFWG]

....and don't forget the colors and the color commentary!

[@doubledarefan]

Only thing it did not have, is a Y-shaped log.

[@benrudman3917]

24:40 and 25:00 are definitely my favorites. Nice job Matt!

[@williamjarman7466]

Awesome log It never gets old

[@billyring4]

Absolutely gorgeous slabs Matt. Enjoyed the video keep up the great work.

[@mcremona]

thanks!

[@bethstehouwer922]

Looks just like a feather toward the end. COOL

[@CraigConnors]

That is a bandsaw to be proud of, especially since you built it. I was watching all the videos of construction, now on to a 4 wheeled gantry with an adjustable bed for moving the heavy slabs. Beautiful wood. Wood like that is quite expensive in Montana.

[@slhasebroock]

That's some cool slabs Matt!!!

[@mikedavies7190]

I want that last one! So pretty....and yet, so far away. (plus that's probably a keeper)

[@mcremona]

Hahaha yeah I think I'm going to hold on to that one

[@petercollin5670]

It's really interesting looking at those big logs through your eyes. A logger sees big wormy soft maple very differently.

[@mcremona]

I'm happy taking your garbage :)

[@petercollin5670]

Ha! I wasn't being a wiseguy calling it wormy soft maple. Around the Lake Ontario plain, they farm everything that isn't swamp. So all of your woods up there grow silver maple that can tolerate saturated soil. But the carpenter ants get in them and perforate a good portion of the inside of the trunk. It isn't worms that make the tunnels, but the effect is that they appear to be made by worms. So loggers will call a silver maple job that grows in a swamp as "wormy soft maple". Whose market, as it turns out, is garbage.

[@MAGAMAN]

"But the carpenter ants get in them and perforate a good portion of the inside of the trunk. " A little (relatively) Epoxy can fix that.

[@Carl-LaFong1618]

Everyone loves log

[@onewhitestone]

that was an amazing log, to bad it was small. I really liked the outside pieces, it looked like gray flames. Each piece was different than the other. That will make some awesome furniture, would love to make something with them.

[@mikecabe6127]

Awesome log Matt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ottoleisering7855]

Beautiful lumber. Wish I could get my hands on stuff like that.

[@FredMcIntyre]

Some really cool looking slabs! 👍👊

[@mcremona]

you know it!

[@ronron8464]

Wow‼️ a sensational log Matt 👊

[@mcremona]

thanks Ron!

[@chuckholton4666]

Absolutely beautiful Matt! I wish I lived close...I be buying some of that!

[@mcremona]

Thanks!

[@SuppenHahnBier]

Damn that first slab!!!!! If only I was not living outside of the US, I would have to come and buy that one :)

[@Thom4123]

Oh man that’s just awesome all the colors so cool. Take Care.

[@mcremona]

thanks Thom!

[@mayoropl1]

"It rolls pretty easily" - LOL

[@jcsrst]

I'd love to get my hands on a piece of that!!

[@Gforceracing20]

Some impressive slabs for straight grain

[@mauriceryton]

It never gets old does it.

[@davidwinokur2131]

Luthiers would gladly buy some of those spalted slabs.

[@loola456]

The diagonal grains are crazy!!

[@o.w.i.m]

22:35 that was a really really nice one. The figure around those knots did it. Liked the ones at 25-26 to striped shifting color.

[@frankrowland63]

That middle piece after you flip the middle slab over looks like you would make it awesome desk.

[@stkbkr1]

Brother you are more incredible than the wood

[@geraldbaranski8983]

Nice. Keep the sawmill video coming

[@geraldbaranski8983]

To be more specific (and hopefully more helpful); I enjoy how you walk us through the decision making of the cut with your interpretation of the log yield. I appreciate your humble demeanor as you tackle Herculean tasks. Thanks.

[@pauljohnson2372]

I've had size issues with my blades. I get a flat pack of 20. The inner blade is always tighter than the outer. I started ordering 1" longer. Cooks sawmill blade sales is awesome

[@cjhooker4955]

It's always like opening a treasure or work of art!

[@RobinLewisMakes]

It's a bit plain but I like it, it's a nice change. Really liked the 4th board!

[@jeremywright6373]

That last board was my favorite

[@warrenbrady7712]

awesome job Matt:"really

[@mcremona]

thanks!

[@ewijntuin]

your neighbours must love you ... with all that saw noise hahaha

[@bobferranti5222]

Wow, I would love to have one of those slabs for a table top.

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Nice video Matt! Thanks for sharing.👍😎JP

[@mcremona]

thanks JP!

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

You're very welcome Matt! 😎

[@Rusty_ok]

Beautiful wood. If you grunt it makes you stronger. A line I will use.

[@SwitchAndLever]

About blades or saw being too big or small, don't discount the effect temperature has on a sawblade that length. Warming it up with a hot air gun (without it becoming too hot to touch of course) may make it expand enough to fit on the wheels. It's a long blade, so even a tiny expansion could do a lot over that length.

[@mcremona]

Good point. I'll mess with it in the future. If I can get it to slip on, it'll stretch a bit once it's under tension for a bit

[@JoeMalovich]

You can increase the length 1/16" by raising it 42F assuming it's 200". If your saw was sitting out in the sun and the blade was in your garage that could easily be the issue.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

If you try this please video it, I don't want to see you hurt but at the same time watching you try and thread a hot blade at speed before it cools might be entertaining!

[@mcremona]

It's 308". I don't think 3/32" is going to be enough though.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

@@mcremona it'd make a killer bowsaw blade if it doesn't look like it'll ever go on.

[@JonathanExcels]

Love the top one

[@JDKempton]

Watched some cutters taking down a huge oak tree and thought of you cutting it into slabs

[@albrough]

Thank you for the metric!

[@MidtownSkyport]

Those end slabs look like marble!

[@gizanked]

Happy slaburday!

[@mcremona]

It's slaburday somewhere!

[@slamsshenanigans2296]

I watched you build this awesome monster, I’m surprised you never put an automatic waterer/blade lube on it yet?

[@SattvaWoodworks]

Nice Matt. I chainsaw mill, wish I could do a bandsaw where I am. Really appreciate your walk around on the wood and breaking it down as you go. Great info.👍

[@mcremona]

thanks!

[@2thelight]

Interesting markings it looks like a brindle coated bulldog with a stripes

[@braxtonwkalfs551]

Beautiful wood, salted maple is my favorite but nothing beats burls! Those would make a nice work bench top

[@greglautz8470]

I like salted maple too... it's delicious!

[@rocky082259]

man, I wish i had that machine. Envy

[@AlexKilpatrick81]

You and I have different definitions of what "moving something relatively easily" means! :)

[@mcremona]

hahahahahaha you're probably right

[@martybosselman4360]

Hey Matt, Great videos. I have had to binge watch ALL your videos. Have to say I love the water splash reveals on your log cutting videos. Amazing what mother nature has created inside each tree. Do you sell your slabs?

[@Bazza1973ify]

They'd make some excellent & beautiful hallway table tops Matt, also it'd be cool to fill the ants nest with clear epoxy so hopefully you'd see trapped ants in the finished piece.... Maybe my warped humour but I think it'd be cool anyway 👍

[@danfraser7479]

The grain of logs are the finger prints of God.

[@msanguanini]

Hi Matt do have concepts or strategies for possible evolving cracks with finished products with these great looking slabs?

[@berthatton9410]

Most coolerest!

[@MikeBramm]

Those are some beautiful slabs. I'd pick some up from you but Minnesota is a long way from Southern California. 😉

[@MattPeterson103]

Something that just occurred to me. Do your neighbors ever worry you are going crazy? Just out there "talking to yourself" about how great the wood is and how much you love crotch? On a more serious note, I loved the tunes in this one. Not too overpowering and well timed. Good job adding that in.

[@mcremona]

I'm sure they would be questioning my sanity if they didn't know what I did for living and also watch my videos lol Thanks Matt!

[@davidosullivan3432]

That's so cool

[@joeysmith3912]

Matt when you put all of your weight on that hook when rolling log and you are almost horizontal, if that hook broke away you would fall flat on your back. Be careful. I want you to keep making a lot more vids.

[@joefaraone977]

Great job Matt. Truly beautiful wood. Wonderful stock for that waterfall table in The Guild! Whaddayagottahave for a slab like that?

[@lesabre1972]

I like the black!

[@Tomlofgren]

Hey Matt, ever considered some sort of gravity fed bucket and adjustable spigot for blade lubrication?

[@totobill22]

Quelle essence magnifique !

[@AndroidM-op7zf]

If using Matts bandsaw mill was a video game that would be the music that would play during the game! Press L1 and R1 to splash log with water bucket....press X and Y to spray with Ant Killer! 😂

[@bethstehouwer922]

Looks like zebra strips. Love it.

[@phillipcarden7027]

I don't know if you know, but Cook Saw has an automatic band saw sharpener. You put the blade in and turn it on and it will sharpen the blade by itself, You have to check on it every now and then, but you can be doing other things while it does it's thing.

[@jeffseaton5193]

Nice stuff there Matt. I'd be happy to make you an automated blade lube system but I'm sure you could make it. Thanks for the video. Funny to me when you say your too lazy to do something. Lol that my friend you are not

[@MichaelMcCloy]

Handling those blades for a moment there it felt like you were going to get taken out like Kenny on an episode of South Park but you handled it well sir! 😳

[@mcremona]

not my first sawblade rodeo

[@george8873]

Never judge a book by the cover. 😉 Anyway, some of the blanks are perfect size for desk tops, small tables and sideboard tops.

[@ralphhorne6063]

It must be some what difficult to even imagine the projects that those slabs have the potential of being. Definitely slabarific.

[@seansysig]

Matt those are some beautiful slabs. What would a slab like the one you said was the best from the middle cost?

[@nline2blast722]

Hey Matt great video I was wondering what causes the grey is it where water seeps in due to no bark

[@pup734]

Hi Matt, do you think leaving the log set for that long helped with the spalting? Beautiful wood in the end.

[@TheBrewersDroop]

Whoa, whoa, whoa! A pallet? That's one step closer to getting a forklift!!!

[@mcremona]

crap! I'd better burn that thing!!

[@RavenJCain]

Some sweet table tops there... or a whole lot of guitars.

[@randydueck889]

I see a lot of epic guitar bodies there.

[@SRJones-ss5sh]

NOTE TO SELF: it's NOT about "LAZY" as much as an absolute RESPECT for the LAWS OF PHYSICS on this planet.