That sure is some electric grain. I love sycamore. :lol:
That sure is some electric grain. I love sycamore. :lol:
John, how thick are inlay pieces? Was wondering about making up some 1/4 thick strips for inlay.
A few pics of BobN's 4x18 slab. Bob as you can see the last half of the slab is pretty eat up. I can get you two 4x18x18's out of this slab if you still want it.
Thanks
Here's a batch of the curly sycamore pen blanks that's going to Clowman tomorrow.
The walnut should dry and plan walnut to 8/4. I try and float around 9/4, because it sure is nice to work with full 2 inch thick boards once it's dry and surfaced. I set the mill scale to give me an extra quarter inch. So really 4/4 is cut at 5/4 +1/8, 5/4 at 6/4+1/8, 8/4 at 9/4+1/8, etc... The wood mizer quarter scale gives you an extra 1/8 anyways.
When I was taking logs to sawyers before I got my mill, I would tell them 4/4 and that's what I got was 4/4, when my lumber dried and I planed it, I was lucky to get 3/4 when I really wanted 4/4. Some boards didn't make it to 3/4, I think they call that cull. So I had to tell them 5/4, then I could get 3/4. If I wanted 4/4 finished lumber I would have to tell them 6/4 and do a lot of planing. The way I have my mill set up the extra 3/8 of an inch, seems to work pretty well.
If I sell 8/4 I want to try and have it plan to 2 inches, unlike BORG who sells 2 by that actually measures 1 1/2 inches. You can always surface thinner if you want too, but you simply can't go thicker.