Oh, and these videos also talk about sawing wood.

There’s a whole subgenre of YouTube videos that are both completely relaxing and intriguing. I’m talking about lumber videos. These are the ones where someone finds a gigantic tree trunk or burled wood stump, then they take it to a gigantic sawmill and slice that bad boy up into fantastic planks. These planks have incredible veining and colors inside, and eventually those planks end up as high-end live-edge tables or guitar fronts or what have you.

I particularly like the way this woodcutter from Fall Line Ridge approaches the subject.

Damn, if I had the time and the budget and the room to make something like that from an old black walnut log …

Of course, once you see a few of these videos, YouTube’s algorithm sends you other videos on that same topic. Which brought me to these videos from Florida-based Triple L Rustic Designs.

Now in this video, the sawblade operator – Zoe – has found a spectacular tree trunk, and as she carves the wood into planks, she talks about how it took two years for her company to find this treasure.

And as I’m watching it … well … something else is catching my attention.

See if you can, shall we say, figure it out.

Um … well … yeah. Trust me, I’m a very broad minded person, all things saying, but there were a couple of knots in that video – right around the crotch area – that definitely needed adjusting around the blade.

And I’m thinking to myself … no way am I seeing woodcutting cheesecake here.

So I checked out another video from this YouTube content producer.

And … yeah.

Trust me, this sawmill has plenty of slabs. And lots of cookies. And plenty of cake. I mean, they even have a video for that!

Okay, at this point even this dense blogger can figure it out. Whatever it takes to stand out against all the other lumberjacks and sawmills with their videos, if it works for you, all the best, right?

I dunno. For me, I want to see the wood slabs and the beautiful patterns that are revealed from the saw blade. In other words … the kind of morning wood raising, instead of, shall we say, raising morning wood. 😀