If anyone is interested I intend to begin milling down an old growth yellow pine log next weekend. The plan is to cut 12/4 live edge slabs and some 24/4 mantles a/o beams in widths up to 36"
Next on the list will be some nicely spalted poplar, plan is to cut similar sizes in widths up to 14"...
Hi all, I thought you might like to see today's work. This piece was actually designed by an artist that was my drawing professor in college, to display his drawings and deign work for his retrospective. I started this morning at 4am and this is how far I got with my two guys helping. We full...
Hello all,
I wanted to tell you that we will hold the Design class at Scott Smith's shop on Saturday November 15.
Thanks to all who have registered here through the forum! I have registered several people through my website also, so the class will have a good group and I am excited to meet...
A brief progression of a red oak log turned into a marking gauge.
A board taken just off center in the a plane sawn log planed down to square and flat, made the biggest gauge stock I could out of the board and made a stem that seemed to make sense. The stem ended up undersized, so I lock the...
A brief progression of a red oak log turned into a marking gauge.
Manual sawing of a small 3"x3"x18" block rough hewn by hatchet from a pretty well bug infested log. Tough work, but I\'m surprised it went as smoothly as it did after learning to sharpen and wax the saw.
A brief progression of a red oak log turned into a marking gauge. This is a more recent vintage of logs off trees in my yard than became this gauge. De-bark by hand, started sealing the ends after my first trip through Checking City, and let dry as a full log because I\'m too lazy to saw into...
Hi Everyone,
I’m a sawyer in Durham County. I enjoy milling lumber on my portable sawmill and I have been learning the art of being a sawyer for a couple years now. I enjoy the challenges each log brings and the satisfaction from making unique and usable lumber.
I am a portable sawmill...
I'm new to this forum and am not a woodworker- but I'm having trouble finding information and was hoping someone might be able to help! I have 3 large white oak trees on my property that need to come down due to being too close to the house. We have a neighbor with a portable mill who says the...
I am cleaning out a basement workshop of equipment, tools, hardware, and lumber and not sure where to sell it (I am not the woodworker). Specifically with the lumber, I believe I have walnut and oak. I have 17 pieces of walnut (total of 77.85 bd ft) and 2 pieces of oak (total of 11.14 bd ft)...