Resawing help needed

[Mark Bergman]

Not help in the sense that I am having problems resawing. Help as in I really would like to find somebody who could accurately resaw four boards of 4/4 curly maple up to 12" wide and 60" long for me. I need to wind up with two 1/4" boards. I am in the NY metro area (Rockland county), but would be happy to travel a couple of hours to get this done. Will pay, barter, whatever. (For example, I happen to have roughly 350" of 1" timberwolf bandsaw blade that I have no use for.)

And, I really don't mean to be obnoxious, but I am looking for specific leads, not suggestions along the lines of contact your local high school shop teacher or local woodworking club, etc.

Thanks very much.

[Van Huskey]

Have you tried your local high school shop teacher? :p

No help as I am 1,200+ miles away but really doing this as a bump for you.

If your edit time hasn't run out by the time you read this I would edit the title to include your area, people will realize it is local help you need and not resawing advice, this may increase your chances of someone local coming into the thread.

[Mike Cutler]

Mark

Is there more to this? This sounds like a very simple task.
You have four, 4/4 boards, of varying widths, that each need to be resawn into bookmatched halves, 1/4" thick, correct?

I am quite a distance from you, Griswold Ct., but if it is as easy as you describe you are welcome to come up and we'll run them through the bandsaw and sander. !2" is the max I can resaw though on my Rikon.
I'm 20 miles north of Mystic Ct, and close to both Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun Casinos for a geographic reference.

[Carl Beckett]

Would be happy to do this for you, but am near Boston. Closer than Van, but still what... 4 hour drive??

I have had good luck in the past just stopping at cabinet shops and asking for help (and offering to help cleanup, and having some beer to leave helps also). Ya... not specific I know. But its about pulling out the phone book or google and finding the closest cabinet shop and walking up to the door and knocking. The worst that can happen is they say no, and you go on to the next. Have had success this way or more than one occasion (and who knows - maybe the next project you will need a wide belt sander so not a bad resource to establish)

(ah! Mike chimed in while I was typing, and closer too!!)