Large logs blown ashore, Isle of Wight
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Greenheart
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Interesting, very interesting...perhaps a row of disposable barbecues under a large-diameter iron or clay pipe, would serve? I think I'm joking.
There it is, strung up by my old lazyjacks.
The speed at which it dries really doesn't matter, I've no plans for it although it might be of abstract artistic interest, sanded, varnished and set over the fireplace (or somewhere else where its purpose might be less easily misinterpreted).
Would it be unwise to seal it by varnishing, unless it had first been kiln-dried to remove internal moisture?
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About four feet long and up to about four inches in diameter, but rather thicker at one end, giving it a vaguely anatomical appearance.
There it is, strung up by my old lazyjacks.
The speed at which it dries really doesn't matter, I've no plans for it although it might be of abstract artistic interest, sanded, varnished and set over the fireplace (or somewhere else where its purpose might be less easily misinterpreted).
Would it be unwise to seal it by varnishing, unless it had first been kiln-dried to remove internal moisture?
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LittleSister
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Interesting, very interesting...perhaps a row of disposable barbecues under a large-diameter iron or clay pipe, would serve? I think I'm joking.
About four feet long and up to about four inches in diameter, but rather thicker at one end, giving it a vaguely anatomical appearance.
There it is, strung up by my old lazyjacks.
The speed at which it dries really doesn't matter, I've no plans for it although it might be of abstract artistic interest, sanded, varnished and set over the fireplace (or somewhere else where its purpose might be less easily misinterpreted).
Would it be unwise to seal it by varnishing, unless it had first been kiln-dried to remove internal moisture?
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It's a piece of art without varnish - conceptual art. Observers can consider whether its drying is a metaphor for something or other, or not. (Or indeed ascribe any other meaning, or lack of meaning, to it!)
Is it art while it's hanging in the garage, or must it first be put over the fireplace, or in a gallery, to become so?
I think varnish would slow its drying, and that's if you could actually get the varnish to stick in the first place (might need washing the salt off). Or, even if the varnish did stick, if my old wooden dinghy and various other boat bits were anything to go by, the moisture underneath would soon lift patches of varnish.
ProDave
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A saw mill won't know. Judging by now much new timber warps and twists as soon as you look at it, any saw mill I have ever seen does not wait for the wood to be dry before they saw and plane it.
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That will depend on how dry the atmosphere is.
AntarcticPilot
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The ones I know saw it and then stack it to season.
Greenheart
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Right now, I doubt there's any more moisture in the garage than outdoors. It seems well ventilated by a 20mm gap beneath the door plus small vents in the walls. It's also terribly hot in there. In winter (in fact as recently as April, when the log had shed 2kg in 30 days) it's often pretty dank in there.
I'm not sure it can be 'art' if it isn't seen or otherwise sensed. Does its photo here make it art? On that basis there's a risk that untold heaps of Ebay rubble in storerooms globally, could be classed as art, or at any rate worthy of interpretation and pretentious pondering.
I won't argue the point.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present this fascinating combined work of elemental forces including a colossal landslide, the crashing salt sea and an occasional beachcomber. Its value has never been estimated, but can only increase. Serious bids welcomed.
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