That "ugly" log is actually gold!! There are professionals woodworkers who would love to create art out of a log like that!!!

That l9g is filthy bro. Absolutely beautiful, flamed, quilted, tigered probably Birdseyed . Amazing log

As a woodturner I can tell you that this is a GREAT log! Could turn a lot of nice things from this

The gnarliest ugliest looking logs usually produce the most interesting lumber when it comes to grain patterns.

NOT WASTE....cut them into 1"x1" strips. Pen makers will buy them for pen turning. Does not matter if the wood is punky. They can save it by stabilizing the wood. MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR CUT OFFS!!!

Natures beauty being saved.excellent job

I would have paid a MINT for one of those outer slabs to make natural edge bowls out of

Most people may not know, but that is gold in the tree world. Big burls, spalting, twisting etc. There are so many different types of deformations of wood that make it more unique and beautiful.

Mantle? good choice. For me though, I'd build acoustic, electric and bass guitars out of rare figured wood such as this Maple.

Anyone can cut a straight log but I enjoy watching how other sawyers cut the non-typical ones. As a Timberking 2000 owner myself, I do enjoy your channel.

Those off-cuts are valuable too. Woodworkers and wood turners can use them to make small items, or decorative inlays on larger items.

Thanks for sharing this cut.! Figured, burled,and beautiful!🎉😅

The prettiest maple usually comes from the ugliest logs.

You're giving [it] an afterlife to the beautiful art created by mother nature. Thanks for sharing.

I resaw planks like that to make book matched dresser drawer fronts and headboards mostly. I use a lot of curly maple, spalted maple, big leaf (quilted) maple.

Don't waste all of those burl cut-offs! Turners love that stuff.

I have watched several hundred hours of various wood cutters and those are the nicest and most interesting boards I have ever seen. You should keep them both as i have little doubt in your lifetime you will never personally find anything close to that ever again IMO

I've just started this sawmill stuff and I have learned much from you and really enjoying watching your work, Thanks for sharing your work with us.

I don't see nasty, I see fantastic!

Hello Thomas, Just my opinion, having built many custom cabinets for exclusive homes. Those undesirable pieces turn out to be Gold !. A bit of kiln drying to kill any micro predators and some TLC with some oil rubbed stain topped with clear Lacquer does some magical wonders.

what a great grain pattern throughout the board! especially the burials. those are great. nice video

You not only have curl, there is birdseye mixed in. The gnarly spike looking clusters on the outside are the indication of birdseye maple. Beautiful wood out of that ugly tree!

It's obviously burled. That isn't everyone's cup of tea, btw. Burled wood is unstable and prone to cracks, voids and fractures, and the grain runs every which way. Usually, highly burled wood is almost impossible to mill into typical lumber and it is usually utilized in lathe-turned objects like bowls.

6x2x1 cut blocks to dry Resale your scrap to knife makers per load it is worth a factor of10 magnitude in cash as knife scales

Worth all the effort. Beautiful log. Rare too. You got lucky. Thanks for sharing.

Slabbing a tree is indeed just like a box of chocolates and truly, you never know what you are going to get.

you couldn't be any luckier to find a log like this it will turn out so amazing pieces IMO

Beautiful natural art in that log. Amazing mantle. And, I can see making a low standing table or bench with any of the other maple strips. Awesome!!!

Hidden treasure thank you for sharing from Scotland 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You have to love those railroad spikes

Good looking finished product. I love figured maple.

If you're looking for Maple with lateral figuring like tigerstripe, or fiddleback, go to the north half of a feild surrounded by forest. The movement to the light bends the trunk and compresses the grain into cuts of beauty. Like the boards you splashed on the wall, Those boards are perfect for a table top. Just throw some CA polimer into the punky parts and you'll have a beautiful table, and that mantle is going to be exceptiona,l with the berl inclusions surrounded by figuring. It does look like that pith might give you some work after its dried but NICE FIND! ...and to think it was going to firewood👍

That dog cracks me up. “Dude. Screw the log. Put that camera on me!!” LOL. 😂😂

Wow so much character in that log, great mantle piece 😮

Ya you had a giant burl basically lmao all those word out growths were maple burl!! Really nice find! Hope it’s put to good use!

it's always "worth it " . even a small section can be made into something beautiful.

I think it would be a great mantle and I love that chickens are all around to eat bugs what a concept 😊

I'm just repeating but that log is gold, beautiful and I can't wait to see!

Im a furniture builder for 36 years, its beautiful wood but your limited with the amount of lumber to build with, good choice for the use of the lumber. Lucky to find and rescue it.

Curly maple is so beautiful.

Oh, that wild woofer pup! Just know,that is a true ALPHA dawg! Love to that sweety!

Best Every Day Carry item: 10' circumference tape measure in your watch pocket of five pocket blue jeans. Easy to find, easy to put back when you are through using it. Remarkably useful throughout the day. Once it becomes a habit to use, it's hard to imagine going back.

DUH...look at the Burros on it... WOW...any wood worker would love IT ❤️!

The wood is to nicely figured to make a mantel ! You can only see the foreward edge of a mantel anyhow? It would make nice jewelry boxes and the like. I will say that if it was mine I would do what ever I wanted to do regardless of people like me that disagree with your choice? Nice video!

A very diverse log ,with such caricatures in the grain. ❤❤

I like 👍 👌 them. All !! 😊😊

Thank you for going to the Time Lapse!

One of my grandfathers was a cabinetmaker and he would've loved some of these boards for making veneers.

Beautiful. Use even the scraps for small stuff.

Beautiful maple. We have a lot of maple on our property. Always looking for the ugly ones!

My friend runs a lumber mill, when he finds curly maples, or black walnut, or other pretty woods, he'll keep the trimmed bits, and sell them for or carve them into pistol grips, and rifle stocks. I sold the 1911 grips I built, and still have some on my 1911. They're really beautiful. All from to trimmings, and fire wood from the mill.

You never know what character is going to come out of a log when you get to the inside is where you see the gorgeous part of it

Amazing wood 👍 Glad you're able to save it from the burn pile

Supper nice, love that curly grain. You knew buddy! What's your favorite ° band?

I see a beautiful Guitar. I love using Maple, it holds a note really well. I WANT

Definitely worth preserving! It would’ve been firewood or a salamander castle. Well done!

Waste? What the heck man, that stuff is incredible to the epoxy world

That’s some pretty wood! I’d like one of the narrow 5/4 boards if it’s available.

Thx for sharing! Anders Sweden

The salvage pieces are great for charcuterie boards

Everything is so beautiful 👏 not waste no no, oh we small carpenters we see beauty in such small spaces, is georgeous👏👍

One man's trash is another man's excuse to buy more resin. 😍

Most definitely worth saving Red Maple with beautiful figuring . Fill the voids with epoxy resin and create stunning pieces from an almost trashed log . Craggy old log was ugly on the outside but gorgeous on the inside .

Some Really nice figure there! Well done in saving it from the burn pile!

Beautiful

3:30 a little dog butt always makes the shot mor interesting

My favorites on the mill are usually the deformed. Good stuff!

Gorgeous maple! I want the one on the trailer! Lol

One man’s junk is another man’s gold mine

Gnarly logs can turn out to be really something. Kind of like gnarly sawyers and woodworkers. Nice sawmill also.

We just finished cutting up a lumpy maple log this morning. But because I use a value approach, my cuts were very different. We ended up with almost no waste wood. Yes, I had bug damage, punky rot, and wild figure to work with. But one can learn how to PLAN and cut for prime figure value, not just HOPE your cuts will turn out nice. Please learn how to best handle high value figured wood and not “waste” so much of it.

That log looks like it had a tortured life

Beautiful slabs!

The bugs create character!

A luthier would live to have that.

I bet its gorgeous inside

Beautiful wood in that log. Could have been a really cool gun stock in there too

I am really curious to hear what part of Tennessee you got this from. I have also salvaged a Spalted Red Maple from around Franklin, and it was the most beautiful wood I have ever seen in person!

If you insist calling that log 'nasty', I'll say that the difference between a beautiful tree and a nasty log is the cutting down. That is easily the nasty part. But you can still show your appreciation by cutting it up sensibly and recovering SOME of the beauty

Yeah! It looks awful..so put it on the mill and find the hidden beauty inside!!

Very interesting. As a new subscriber, enjoyed your video. Thanks.

Beautiful log!!

I had a few like that I wanted to make into firewood but the wife talked me into milling it which was a pain but it turned out beautiful

very nice...!!!!

would like to see the final mantle. But how much do you sell this for?

That tree had a hard life! Back when i was still woodworking, I would have loved to have had a log like that.

I e been removing the bark from my logs. The flathead larva were chewing through just under the bark. I could hear them so hopefully it will be a wise idea.

WOW! You managed to trim a $10,00 log down to some two by fours and a post! Amazing!

That would make a lot of guitar tops

Beautiful maple I could turn some beautiful bowls wit that wood wit very little waste thanks for sharing 👍 😊

It's the curl of the burl! That's just the way of the world! (Mastodon)

No waste when project makers see that pile they hit the Holy grale.

Thanks for the education! I appreciate videos like this that truly serve to inform, not just show someone working. Kudos! Can I pick your brain, though? My dad had his 100+ year old maple cut down, and I asked for a round from near the base, expecting to make a simple live-edge table from it. However, this round is loaded with curly figure! I had no clue! I feel so blessed to own a beautiful piece of this tree that I used to play under, and I want to do the wood justice. What would you do with a 3-4” thick round of curly maple? I’m at a loss! (I should add that it’s now split into 2 pieces, since I thought I’d make 2 tables.🤦🏻‍♀️)

Your cuts have very interesting figure to them. I make small boxes and would love to use them.

You see a log of that nature and there is Definately a lot of caracature All throuout its inside.. I would have cut 2,25 inch slabs , and than you can allways make boards from it! It WAS a nice log!!

I'm not going say you obviously don't know what your saying, but I'm actually going say you don't know what your saying. That wood stabilized to knife makers would bring small fortune. A 2"x2"x5" piece of that stabilized would be around 30-40$ depending on grain. Please don't ever burn that!!! One mans trash is another mans treasure!

Yes very beautiful wood

If you put an epoxy over it you could leave the bug holes and just fill them in.

They would make beautiful Guitar bodies

As a luthier, where some might see a mantelpiece, I see guitar bodies.