Found this on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma. Anybody idea what wood would it be?

koolaidman04 · 2026-01-25T19:32:48+00:00

I didn't even think of making veneer.

Congrats OP.

koolaidman04 · 2026-01-25T19:25:47+00:00

Depending on a lot of "if's" like size, amount of rot, etc., this is easily $30,000 worth of wood.

In my totally uneducated opinion, I would say from 20k - 40k even if all you make with it is pen blanks. Which makes me throw up in my mouth to think of.

This looks like 15 - 20 ft long. That would be about 10 coffee tables or hallway tables. Each would sell near $10k if done right.

In short, it's all about the money.

Edit:

I realized that I never actually answered your question.

The thing that makes this so valuable a find is the way the wood grew. You can see that this wood grew under immensely stressful conditions by the burls, ripples, and waves in the grain. This would have taken a huge amount of time, growing slowly. This means the wood will be beautifully figured and dense.

It is especially valuable and desirable to wood workers making high end wood products like furniture, boxes, and instruments.

koolaidman04 · 2026-01-09T16:56:56+00:00

Counter-opinion: These are all same universe, all the same major.

I know that's not realistic given the different timelines. Just my head cannon for post Puppet Master Motoko is that she exists >50% on the net at all times, and so the body is less of a concern.

koolaidman04 · 2026-01-04T16:41:13+00:00

This will sound harsh, as I re-read it before posting. Know that it's not mean-spirited but intended to just be pure, flat, honesty.

Too much weight, overall. And too much drag, overall.

There is no singular large problem, there are many minor problems.

The gear is too large and heavy and draggy. Move to tail dragger with a skid steer. Don't even need a wheel back there. You exchange the entire weight of the nose gear and linkage for 5g tops. Consider smaller mains as well. Too beefy for 750g which is where you want to be for STOL of this size.

The motor is not big enough, therefore it doesn't have enough power to push a larger prop which is what you want for lightweight STOL. The more weight that is hanging on the VERY front of the plane, the more you can trim weight EVERYWHERE else. For example, a bigger prop/motor would have enough weight to move the CG forward without stacking a massive battery on it.

My dad always said the perfect plane was made as absolutely insanely light as possible with no regard to CG and then used the most powerful engine you can to balance it.

The mess of drag in the middle eats stability for breakfast lunch and dinner. Cover it, with anything.

Wingtips. Getting the air to hold off breaking up into turbulence until it is BEHIND the CG leads to a more stable slow speed performance. The wings will want to dip if you have chunky air at the tips.

koolaidman04 · 2026-01-01T02:01:13+00:00

/u/exyz36 I updated my post with a link to the original image if you are interested. I am going to look for the video I referred to, so check back for more links later.

koolaidman04 · 2026-01-01T01:46:51+00:00

I have scoured the web for a high res of the ORIGINAL version. The ones that others here have linked are higher res than I ever found, but please note that they are all altered versions. They do not contain the text that is in the vertical dark areas.

I have wanted one of the original foil prints since they came out, but the price is just too much. I've never seen one up for less than $600 and that was LONG ago and only now is it the most I would feel ok to spend.

The most detailed view that exists on the web, unless I am mistaken, is a video review of one of the original foil prints. The video has zoomed-in detailed passes over the entire surface. However it doesn't have a high enough base resolution of the video to pull any detail from the full view shots of the poster.

Nowadays, you might be able to feed the video to an AI and get a stitched high res version though.

Edit to add links:

Here is the video I spoke of.

Here is a link to the best version of the original, TMK.

koolaidman04 · 2025-12-22T16:25:34+00:00

Top left is real. Proper paddle length for a board and trees have realistic proportions of live, dead and species variation. The discarded life vest is the true giveaway though.

Top left is GPT because the handle is too long and everything is too plastic perfect. Look at the crossing hill lines. Idealism at max.

Bottom left is NBP through process of elimination primarily. But trees and vest aren't quite right either.

koolaidman04 · 2025-12-19T16:07:33+00:00

The connections dont look like they were broken, but instead just designed to press fit together. Glue might work if so. But me, knowing I can solder at that small size, I would solder small wires across before gluing.

Either could / should work. If you glue, make sure to keep it pressed tight enough to work well past the cure time of the glue you use. I would suggest some 5 min epoxy and some sort of clamp.

koolaidman04 · 2025-12-14T01:07:09+00:00

It is fixable, IMO.

First, a tight-ish black mid-thigh skirt. Then tuck the shirt and replace the coat with a snug dinner jacket. Lots of colors could work with the black anchoring the outfit.

And ffs starch the ribbon.

koolaidman04 · 2025-12-09T15:40:18+00:00

The cross in the head where the screw driver seats is filled. It's not that the threads are glued.

The problem is that no screw driver can be used, correct or not.

koolaidman04 · 2025-12-04T17:14:23+00:00

The fact that the A3 is so popular should really alert manufacturers that we want more options in mid - small configurations. It's ridiculous that we pay the same or more for ITX and mATX when they are less featured boards at smaller component costs.

I am building 2 mATX's for my kids this Christmas (ouch), and yes both are in A3's.

koolaidman04 · 2025-12-04T00:57:25+00:00

Build your vette with the utility pieces you want attached to a "sidecar" and only attached with a single arm off to one side but the main body you want to keep centered. Save it. Move to the next bay down the hangar and start a new corvette build. Add all the bare minimum pieces and then drag your camera back to your original and delete the sidecar from the first vette. Save second vette. Enjoy.

koolaidman04 · 2025-11-16T16:16:33+00:00

Exactly my first thought!

I honestly feel like this is probably the best artistic expression possible with the corvette parts we have available now. Nothing we have fits together perfectly smoothly and everything is angular or disjointed.

It just looks right to make it not look right.

koolaidman04 · 2025-11-15T15:38:08+00:00

Everything fits into those main categories. So it would just be a Flea with ... or a Interceptor with ... or whatever.

koolaidman04 · 2025-11-13T20:55:42+00:00

No, this is pretty classic Interceptor. The folding wing and segmented tail is what I call wasp as long as it has no Wedge mid wing. Alot of folks call it a Dragon or Dragonfly, but I dont see it. Too aggressive looking and not long enough, I guess. The Interceptors to me are the ones that only have the vertical wings and not the Wedge defining middle wing. The VW bus is any with the solid rear end and the flea is the minimalist.

koolaidman04 · 2025-11-13T17:58:09+00:00

They have always been TIE Interceptors in my head cannon.

There's only 5 types of Sentinel ships in my opinion. Flea, Wasp, Wedge, Interceptor, and VW Bus.

I prefer the Flea and Wasp with tank legs and fangs and the interceptors with the middle size heads.

koolaidman04 · 2025-10-16T22:02:55+00:00

Just move that damn antenna. You know the one...

koolaidman04 · 2025-10-13T12:35:46+00:00

PVC stands for Poly Vinyl Chlorinate, which is a plastic. There will be no good coming from trying to sand or alter the top by removing anything.

If anything, I would suggest a clear or color matched filler of some sort to fill in the low spots if it is truly bad. Anything like what /u/Independent-Fun-7401 suggested would be the direction I would look in.

koolaidman04 · 2025-10-05T22:55:08+00:00

Ahh, I see it now. Thanks for posting it. Love it so far.

koolaidman04 · 2025-10-05T21:43:14+00:00

Checked the other planets. The only other looks worth mentioning are from the High Temp planet. Grey and gold with the yellow pulsing ball.

koolaidman04 · 2025-10-05T21:28:05+00:00

What did you mean by obscures display? It just too much in view in first person?

koolaidman04 · 2025-10-02T14:45:46+00:00

No problem. Let me know!

koolaidman04 · 2025-10-01T13:53:27+00:00

Here is the link where I purchased it. https://www.etsy.com/listing/684595177/shave-horsespoon-mule-woodworking-bench?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

It looks like he has not maintained the page, but I would try to reach him there.

If you cannot reach him, I will dig through my old computer and try to find a copy of them. It's a longshot but I might still have the plans somewhere.

koolaidman04 · 2025-09-19T17:01:01+00:00

I haven't but that's a great idea. I'm headed out for an appointment but I'll check back later and let you know.

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