I made a fairly long  sled from two long pieces of wood with little spacers.  It's as flat and square as it needs to be.  The length of the sled is relative to the length of the logs I resaw.

I screw it to the log leaving an overhang  of uncut log on one side.

Then I use that sled on the table and against the fence to get the first straight flat cut.

Then I flip the whole schamoodle 90 degrees  so the newly cut side is bearing oon the table and the sled is against the fence.  Then with two fairly square and flat cuts done I remove the sled

Here's the first cut

See the nice flat cut square to the table?

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Hey~!! It's a hobby~!! It's not supposed to make sense.

That is a piece of apple felled by the big October snow storm two years ago.  I cut  the logs from it up this weekend.

I sawd up the logs into 2.5" thick cants. I have a hankerin to make me  a nive end grain cutting board.

Never made one and I'm jonsing for one that literally rings when a knife raps it.  Apple is beastly hard & dense stuff so I'm hoping it'll do the trick.

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Hey~!! It's a hobby~!! It's not supposed to make sense.

Perfect timing on your post Cliff.  Been wondering for last couple of days how I'm going to re-saw my logs I got.  I may have shove the table saw out of the way to have room to move around my table saw in doing it the way you did.   Thanks for the idea.

Wayne E

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Wayne E

Very nice Cliff. That apple should make an outstanding cutting board. I'll be watching for pictures.

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John Moody
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I learned my lesson  about trying to muscle a log without the benefit of a sled by kinking a $200.00 blade.

That led to some thought on the subject and that led to that sled which I keep around.

I've seen  guys using a sled/jig that they destroy when using it because it's just a big V ( with a base) into which the log sits and  they gotta saw the jig up as they saw the log. I suppose it's good if you are doing a one off.  But I like my reusable sled. I made it long to handle a variety of logs.

I'll also clamp a 4-foot long jointed 2x6 to the table to act as an auxiliary fence so that I have a larger surface against which to bear when pushing the long work through a cut.  It's handy because the longer heavy pieces tend to be difficult to control when a large portion of them are outboard of one end of the fence or other.

I hammered most of the kink out of the blade and still use it.  It's the blade I use for this sort of thing. I won't cry if I kink it again.

Cliff, I use the same method for resawing fire wood, I have to pieces of plywood screwed together at 90 degrees, I screw the log to the sled, and run it through just like you do, it aint fancy, but heck it works!!!!!!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

git 'r dun~!!