If you prepare your own lumber, will it work just as well as wood bought from a commercial source? The answer is a qualified yes. If you have properly dried and stabilized the wood, it will work just the same. But there will be some differences that require you to “read the grain” more closely. The wood will be a mix of grades – selects, firsts, seconds, and commons – with more sapwood and less heartwood than is usual, especially if you have lumbered small-diameter logs and limbs.

In this video, Nick unstacks the walnut lumber he cut from firewood just over a year ago, and then builds a miniature mule chest using only that wood. He explains what parts of the building process are affected by using air-dried wood cut from small bolts, walks you step by step through the building process, and shows how to deal with the challenges. You arrive at a product that is very definitely a piece of fine woodworking even though the materials were salvaged from firewood.

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