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   Sphere | Jan 14, 2007 05:41pm | #1

   Cool. Looks like something I should have done.  Btw, Doud DID do a lot with logs at his place, I wish he'd post pics of his entrance way.

   And YUP, winter cut holds the bark longer, I dunno about indefinitly, but much longer.

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   RRooster | Jan 14, 2007 08:54pm | #2

   Now you can call yourself a barkenter!

    

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   Gene_Davis | Jan 14, 2007 09:02pm | #3

   Not my job.

   If we do it, a paint roller is used to do two coats of oilbased solid color stain, color dark brown, on the sawcut faces of the trim.  These guys used some sort of a penetrating oil without pigment.

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   junkhound | Jan 15, 2007 03:30am | #4

   Dont know about NY bugs and E. White cedar, but here in the NW if you leave the bark on West red cedar or Dfir, the bugs will have a feast just under the bark and the bark will fall off in a few months, a few years if it was kiln dried immediately after cutting.

   Leave the bark on alder or Hemlock, and the bugs REALLY have a feast.

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   Gene_Davis | Jan 15, 2007 03:40am | #5

   Makes me think of the bumpersticker, "My kid beat up your honor student."

   Your bugs would eat our bugs.  But your bugs wouldn't survive the winters our bugs sleep through.

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   Floss | Jan 15, 2007 03:53am | #6

   Gene,

   In the first photo it looks like the bark is twisting on the piece on the left side of the window. To me that would indicate the grain moves that way too, which would in turn make the whole piece twist as it dries out.

   It looks kind of cool now, but have these folks considered wood movement and grain direction? I would think that after a few years the pieces would end up moving and the trim would look like a twisted mess.

   How are the carps fastening the splits?

   J.P.

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   DavidxDoud | Jan 15, 2007 05:25am | #7

   I too think the bark on exterior treatment is a bad idea - it might be a bad idea inside too,  but I've done it -

   I did hollow out the back of the pieces so to weaken/control warping/twisting/checking action - things look pretty good 5 years later - the colors have weakened - the poplar went brown and the sycamore has lost it's green - is now gray/white - no pest problems,  but it is interior trim -

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