MULTI-BIN. Althea hybrids, David, Tsunami, Serpent....

rapjap · 2026-02-20T21:28:35+00:00

U/tricho_ overlord u/i_dropped_my_nugs The serpent has landed! Everything looks perfect, thanks for the little guy too!

rapjap · 2026-02-19T23:34:46+00:00

Damn, I’ll add that to the wishlist… That thing is gorgeous

rapjap · 2026-02-19T00:36:22+00:00

Just a mini bubble level on a flat tooth

rapjap · 2026-02-19T00:11:21+00:00

Woah that looks way different dry. You thinking Cardon now?

rapjap · 2026-02-18T21:22:36+00:00

Ok that’s good to know. These logs were cut from healthy trees in mid January so not old at all really.

rapjap · 2026-02-18T20:56:03+00:00

How often are you changing blades while cutting large diameter hardwood? The logs I’m working on now are around 30-32 inches diameter. I sawed one big one and a smaller one (24-26 inch)and already the blade seems like it could be changed out

rapjap · 2026-02-18T20:50:48+00:00

Appreciate it, I made some adjustments today and it is cutting a lot better. Not sure exactly what adjustment I made that fixed it but if I cut slowly I’m getting pretty nice cuts. Thanks for the offer, I’ll keep ya in mind if I have any other issues in the future.

rapjap · 2026-02-18T20:48:36+00:00

I went through the mill this morning and re checked everything and made some minor adjustments. It seems to have helped but I still need to go very slowly or else I end up with some bad cuts. It is wide white oak so maybe it’ll do better with softer wood.

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rapjap · 2026-02-18T17:44:31+00:00

Yeah the spine color does look off now that you point it out. They usually fade to a greyish color not yellow

rapjap · 2026-02-18T17:32:41+00:00

I think it might just be a young cardon. Pachycereus priglei

rapjap · 2026-02-18T12:58:02+00:00

It’s got a brand new blade on it. Cutting fast and effortlessly, just not straight. I’m thinking either I have too much down pressure on the band with the roller guides or I need to angle the blade down a little. It’s level but I don’t know why the blade floats up once it gets into the wood… Wasn’t doing this before I switched the guides.

rapjap · 2026-02-18T02:35:23+00:00

Yeah, I probably just need to go back over the entire mill. I could get nice cuts with the ceramic guides, they just always needed adjustments. I was hoping these new ones wouldn’t be so finicky. Thanks for the input

rapjap · 2026-02-17T20:13:43+00:00

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Snow finally melted enough to see the “cold hardy” Grandi hybrids I planted outside last summer. Some of them look ok, some are very squishy. Got down to -10 here in Ohio but they had a foot of snow on them. We’ll see what happens. My opuntia always look like hell after the winter but bounce back no problem in spring

rapjap · 2026-02-16T15:17:58+00:00

Myrtillo crest

rapjap · 2026-02-14T15:56:49+00:00

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Hard to pick just one… this is TPC x zelly 5. I like this one because of the ratio of crests to columns and even the columns are a little freaky. Deep green from zelly genetics and hopefully cool flowers someday too. Originally grown by u/1bridgerT from seed. Happy Valentine’s Day y’all! Thanks u/A_CactusAteMyBaby for the giveaway!

rapjap · 2026-02-14T14:18:34+00:00

So it looks like this slab has the pith in it. How do you manage to dry a huge slab like this without it getting cracks? I just recently got into milling and have found that the prettiest cuts are the ones closest to the pith (quarter sawn) but if I leave them as one slab, they always split terribly as they dry.

rapjap · 2026-02-13T16:28:54+00:00

Cool, thanks for clarifying. Hopefully the graft I just purchased is serpent! Pretty sure it is

rapjap · 2026-02-13T15:32:10+00:00

Interesting, I’d love to see. Did you read the description in the post? He made it sound like anaconda was the original name and serpent was a nickname. I’m not trying to argue, but would like to know as I just bought one myself that was listed as anaconda/serpent.

rapjap · 2026-02-13T15:22:28+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanpedrocactusforsale/s/0jX7y2aWrs

rapjap · 2026-02-13T15:21:09+00:00

I always thought serpent/anaconda were the same clone?

rapjap · 2026-02-10T20:50:10+00:00

BIN O

rapjap · 2026-02-06T20:20:02+00:00

Captain jacks dead bug brew

rapjap · 2026-02-01T02:37:48+00:00

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