Giving Beams a Band saw texture

[redbeard]

Customer contacted me on a cosmetic project to resurface some fresh cut beams from another mill up river by concrete Wa. they had a Lucas and alot of Old growth cedar nice stuff! The lucas did a great job but could only cut 8" so it left a small line down the beams and circle marks which are fine. But the Home owner wanted the rough bandsaw look. So I ordered up some 10 degree  .055 WM blades and resurfaced the cedar beam n post package. We had to make a jig to take excessive crown out of the two 20' beams so we could keep the same dimension, so we lagged a mount on the ends and ratchet strapped to the bed it worked really nice were able to texture without taking any material off. Also set a small blocks on ends and set another beam on top to put weight on ends this also worked good.And used 1"x1" stock on stops and log dog clamp to keep marring off finished product. Job complete everyone is happy!

[Bibbyman]

Last year I had a carpenter bring us about a half dozen western red cedar beams to clean and size up.  They were badly discolored and beat up. They were new beams - not reclaimed from some other structure. I was also surprised to find how much they varied in dimension and not and a couple not any too square.  The owner of the house or building would not accept them.

We resawed them down to a common size that cleaned up the faces.  We handled them gently getting them back on the trailer.  He was happy. 

[Brucer]

WRC can be a pain in the butt to saw because -- it moves. A lot. Usually a good band sawyer can deal with the movement, if he/she takes the time. Sawing it with a circle saw in a production mill is a whole different story.

[PEG-688]

  Redbeard and I re-sawned two curved beams today as well. Made a temporary  bed on his saw out of some high density particle board. Two other guys showed up so we put them to work , the added hands insured the beams didn't tip as the tail came off the bed as we turned the curve thru the saw.


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    The circular saw marks before we band sawed the stock.


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   Just skimming the faces ,

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  Hopefully the photos show up , they are hosted at --Photos MUST be in the Forestry Forum gallery!!!!!-- , and things seem similar here to another forum I'm on so we'll see.

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[PEG-688]

Well that didn't work out to well!  :D

[thecfarm]

This will help you out.

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,23851.0.html

This link tells you how to post pictures.Just looks like a lot to do.Use the enter key to give your pictures some white space,like redbeard did.Just makes them easier to view.You can preview the pictures to make sure they are coming out the way you want them too.Reason you need to make your own gallery and never delete the pictures is so we never have a red X due to another sever having trouble.
We will gladly help you if you have trouble.  ;D

[redbeard]

 





The pics that peg-688 wanted to post that explained about the resurface job that i did for him on his old growth WRC post n beam job. Pic shows the table set up to rotate the arch through the mill as the saw head kept a steady feed and blade cutting at 90 degree with the grain for a even texture. We took one pass on each side removing 1/8-3/16 of material, It was a three person job one guy to turn arch through the saw head and another to keep it level as it went through and me running the mill. It worked and the glue lam he made out of clear cedar was really nice.

[Kansas]

We have skimmed beams people brought in to give them a smooth look. It really helps cleaning up and straightening out old beams that have gotten a little crooked. But there is one more thing to think about. We are doing more and more beams for houses. Anything from white oak to hackberry, all green lumber.  This is generally new home construction. By the time they get put up, they get a fair amount of scuff marks, or dragged through the mud by the builder, etc. Sandblasting works wonderful. It doesn't leave it with a planed look, but completely cleans it up.