Too small and too knotty.
For stock wood it takes a big log, you have to have room to avoid any obvious bark inclusions, knots, wind shakes and such when you lay out your pattern. A perfect log will have at least 3 stock blanks in a 3" thick, 24" wide slab, my first section of the log had only had two and one of them had a lot of flaws. All of the flaws were internal and didn't show until I slabbed off the log.
As you can see, there is no stock wood in the bad half of the log.
Every cut had these types of bark inclusions, I could work around some, but most of the slabs ended up as firewood.
You need a log about this size, about 20" in diameter at least; if you look at the first round, I trying to find sound wood, you can see just how much rot and flaws were in the 3 to 6 o'clock area. This didn't show from the outside.
After I cut out the two stock blanks I slabbed off the other half and found only a sea of flaws, I didn't get any good stock blanks out of the other half.
