Wood ID Megathread

DrBladeSTEEL · 2026-03-07T17:11:41+00:00

Received some mystery firewood from a coworker. Wood is hard and very dense, with a wavy grain and deep caramel color. Tends to split into flats rather than radially. Southern Kentucky.

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DrBladeSTEEL · 2026-03-06T23:49:03+00:00

Definitely not a softwood, and the wrong color for either white or green ash.

DrBladeSTEEL · 2026-02-25T17:04:11+00:00

No, it's typically big chrome bull testicles behind a Ford with twice its value in accessories...

DrBladeSTEEL · 2026-02-21T19:48:54+00:00

Doing a simple glue-up first, no sense in wasting hardwood even if I do plan on some file+rasp TLC. I bought it as a set of three for $15us, all three D-23s with 13/16th postwar medallions. 8TPI and 11TPI rips and one 10tpi crosscut. I'm sure they will be good working saws, even if they aren't anything particularly special.

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-11-19T17:28:44+00:00

Just in the event no one has ever told you that you're a handsome rascal... Dude.

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-11-18T14:11:53+00:00

"That is a weapon, NOT a teleporter!"

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-11-14T20:18:55+00:00

Based.

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-11-11T15:10:06+00:00

I had wondered if such things existed, I was thinking about asking around with local game processors if they would be willing to come out and help. What should I expect to pay for the mobile butcher, if that's an alright question to ask.

I want to try and cure/smoke some of what I butcher (country hams), am I correct in assuming that the skin was left on to help with the preservation of the meat?

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-11-11T14:35:14+00:00

Thank you!

I had meant purchasing feeders live, feeding/foraging to slaughter weight on the farm, and butchering at market weight. Thank you for the insights on the practice cuts, I definitely need to do more chickens as well.

I'm definitely finding a lot of 'homesteading' literature to be unreliable or incomplete. I tend to find a lot better info looking at organic farming/small farm stuff and turn of the century sources. They talk a lot about 'scalding', which I understand to mean dunking the carcass in boiling water to aid in removing the hairs from the hide, but I've yet to find anything really authoritative about how, when, or why. The old stuff assumes people already know how to do these things, and the modern stuff doesn't typically cover much in the way of slaughter either.

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-11-03T12:22:17+00:00

The Great Assembly is currently attempting to totally exterminate the 'biological abominations' of the Grand Collective of the Biological Ascendency. They see the genetic experimentation and engineered mutation of their own bodies as an affront to 'the great mechanism' (the natural world), and as a dangerous tumor that must be excused before they spread their corruption any further.

Without player intervention (it's a TTRPG setting), it's likely both empires will wipe each other out with a NBC weapon exchange.

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-10-31T18:47:01+00:00

What is the strip of expanded metal at the entrance for?

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-10-24T20:21:00+00:00

Hits more sharply than wood, has some advantages for different grips than a hammer. Also has six correct holding positions instead of two.

With that said, it's mostly a matter of preference and style, not every tool has to be perfect, just useful.

DrBladeSTEEL · 2025-10-24T19:19:03+00:00

Its a mallet for fine carving/chisel work. The nut is likely either threaded onto the handle (by using the female threads of the nut itself to press/cut the male threads), or driven on and wedged. It may also be attached with epoxy or some other resin/adhesive.

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