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Nick Engler (Workshop Companion) Resawing Logs
John Morris posted a topic in Shopsmith Pride and Use
I was just kicking around YouTube this morning watching others do their craft, from weaving, to boat building, to pottery, I really love watching others in the different fields of craft do their work. Then Nick Engler's video caught my eye, it wasn't necessarily the subject of resawing on a bandsaw, I've done that plenty of times before, but he did it on his Shopsmith bandsaw. So I watched it through, and I dunno, I just enjoyed it, his technique is very familiar to me, basically the same technique I used when I had a dedicated bandsaw, but he did teach me a few things like how to tightly band the stack of green boards together for seasoning, I liked his wire block twisty wire method, very cool. I'll let you all find his follow up video for using those boards a year later if you are so inclined, but here is his take on resawing a relatively good sized log on our Shopsmith bandsaws. Thanks Nick!- 5 replies
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I started milling with an "Alaska" type chainsaw mill that I built out of steel.(the store bought units seemed somewhat flimsy). With a Sthil 084 and a 60" bar it weighed about 150 lbs. It would wear a man smooth out. I decided to build a platform to mount it on that worked more like a sawmill. While designing the rails and action I realized that I could make a more useful machine by mounting different tools to the tool post. It functions as a sawmill with plunge cutting capabilities, a large capacity lathe(10" dia x 108" length), a large capacity mortise machine(24" x 96" bed, 14" vertical stroke), and a large capacity drill press(24" x 96" bed, 14" vertical stroke). I'm very pleased with the results and would love to hear your comments and opinions(even the negative ones). I offer a lease of my blueprints for prospective builders. Go to dropbox link below for more detailed pics and info. machine: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr4yw91iv2hgdl0/AACv5-Unq_KSGyYK-2YHwWIBa?dl=0 furniture it can make: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pq9hfk8rqr7l416/AADQZxeku_HGeIBLpz4MeasIa?dl=0
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This is a good video, a bit long, that shows a huge tree being cut into 13 slabs. I've never seen one in operation and I had to admire the work effort this guy goes thru
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Sunday afternoon I picked up a load of Walnut logs from a gentleman that said the tree blew down sometime back and he pushed it out of the way but needed it gone. Need it gone, I am the person. There is another load that I have to pick up this weekend. I had some lumber ready to pick up at the sawmill so yesterday on my lunch hour I headed to the mill to drop of the Walnut logs and pick up a load of Maple. Once this is stacked, I will take the other Walnut logs and pick up my other load of Maple and Poplar that is ready. I just love fresh cut lumber!
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About a week ago I had a friend tip me off about a barn full of lumber that a lady wanted to unload. Long story short, I bought about 800 - 1000 BF of ash, walnut, maple, cedar and quarter sawn white oak. There were several walnut 8/4 and 12/4 boards 12 foot long that are going to make some fine, fine challenge coin displays. Here's a picture of two van loads of walnut and maple. I unloaded about 100 BF of white oak into my barn and I figure there's about 200 bf of walnut in this pile. A big shout out to my BIL who has a nice big pole barn to store everything I can't handle. The picture is a bit deceiving because I throw a sheet of black plastic over the pile so you're really only seeing half the length.
