When we moved into our house, we had 2 near death oaks that decided to take down. The trees were too big to get to a mill, so I chainsaw milled them for projects here and there. Typical slabs were 12' x 2-4" x 8-30" wide.

My latest project is a climbing pegboard for my son. His birthday is next week, and asked for something like this. *Fingers Crossed*

  
Board was rough planed with a power planer, and the milled flat with flycutter on my work's gantry mill. We then CNC cut the peg holes, letter pockets and frame with the mill.

After filling lettering epoxy, finished with a planer, hand router, scraper card for high streaks from planer. Finished with Natural Rubio Monocoat and quick sand with 2500 grit to satin finish.

Pegs were from $3 clearance Oak table legs I found at Home Depot.

In the end the pegs had trouble sticking due to everything being so hard and smooth. A quick wrap of athletic tape made a HUGE difference. 

\* side note, I did leave some features of the rough chainsaw milling. You can see some marks on the surface and a cut in the edge. The back has slot looking marks where its clearly chainsaw cut. These are intentional as I feel like a perfect mill job removes most of the history of the part, where leaving some rough marks provides for some backstory.

Made a Climbing Pegboard from my son from a tree I cut down