I did a custom sawing job for an aging walnut logger - gun stock blanks from the crotches he'd saved through the years. I asked him when was the best time to cut walnut - in the winter? He...
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I did a custom sawing job for an aging walnut logger - gun stock blanks from the crotches he'd saved through the years. I asked him when was the best time to cut walnut - in the winter? He...
My shop ceiling is used barn-tin and my pipe at the ceiling is 6" HVAC. I screwed hooks into the joists and then hung my ducts via long zip-ties left over from a heating and cooling job - cheap,...
I know this is an old thread, but always pertinent nevertheless. I posted previously here that I had an 8"-capable 3HP Grizzly d.c. and used 6" ducting from start to finish. I recently removed the...
This is what I have done, and it worked out well, although I probably shorted myself in the beginning by taking only one third of their walnut and cedar (I now ask for one half). I saw their logs...
I have 4' spacing on my trusses, and my ceiling (in the shop). I used 26 ga. galvanized steel roofing panels (which I had just removed from a roof) to cover my ceiling. A friend and I put up the...
I heat my 1000 sq ft shop with an inside freestanding woodstove. I have a sawmill, so firewood from slabs is always available. I guess my concrete floor acts as a heat sink because overnight inside...
I know we Americans are not used to acceding to a seller's wishes (and one who does it only his way), but, as someone who has benefited immensely from Tom Clark's very basic book, I suggest (if you...
I know ppb's are worse in hackberry than walnut. My experience with walnut and the white oak family is that primarily the sapwood is vulnerable - hackberry is totally vulnerable. I don't have...
I did almost all of my early woodworking on a Montgomery Ward RAS. They supplied a rather coarse, positive angle blade with the new saw. I always pushed because it just worked better and caused...
Keep an eye out for powder post beetles with hackberry.
Under-slab ducting might be less problematic for you if you went directly to the table saw and ran a separate line along the wall (above the floor) for the outside machines. . . . just a thought.
I put 6" PVC S&D and electrical conduit under the slab in a channel cut in the dirt, with a large quantity of base rock surrounding the pipes (as well as under the whole slab). The building is on a...
Thanks, someday I'll get brave and try a load of green oak in the kiln. When drying 18 per cent or lower, I haven't noticed much quality difference in (less than full) loads partially blocked or the...
Thanks for your very explicit response (it is clear). I have a V.T. kiln designed to dry 12' length lumber, but have never cut enough 12' boards to fill the kiln to its 1000 sq ft capacity. Would...
Cody,
You say you go directly to the kiln with oak in the summer. What steps do you take to keep from drying too fast?
I bought a Woodmaster (34" I think) off of Craigslist for $600. Great machine, very well built. Just sayin'.
I used 6" metal heat duct pipe, 26 ga, and got it (and most of the fittings) very inexpensively from a company that manufactures it close to where I live. After I explained why I needed it, the...
John, I had an Alaska Mill (up to 24") once - even burned up a chainsaw with it. I advise you to never ever try out a bandsawmill - you'll be forever spoiled. But I bet your rolling mill...
Thanks, this was my most ambitious project to date. Mitered doors are a lot more work than rail & stile (those just slip together if you do the millwork correctly). Without wifey, I wouldn't have...
I bought a Norwood LM2000 in 2004 to salvage all the big trees that went down when a tornado came through our 40 acres in southwest Missouri near Jerico Springs. I used the lumber, mostly oak, to...
I have used black driveway sealer that's sold in 5 gallon buckets for about $20 at the big box store. It seems to work to seal log ends. The ingredient list says it has sand in it, so you might see...
The bit is MLCS #8778 (used on 3/4" stock). I used a standard 1/4" slot cutter, a standard raised panel bit w/undercutter (on 5/8" stock), an R3 mini-biscuit (1" x 1/2") with a Ryobi DBJ50 Detail...
And here:
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Maybe this will give you some idea of what the bits can do. These were made using one of the MLCS mitered drawer frame bits, don't exactly know which one - 3/4" stock.
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I read Tom Clark's book. Then I made these cabinets, first ones I ever built - over 50 drawers. Thanks, Tom.
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