A day cutting wood

[Magicman]

It's good to see things finally clicking for you Harvey.  It's also good that Little Jo, has taken to the helm.  What a "big" helper.   ;D

[Jim_Rogers]

Today's challenge in "A day cutting wood" is to take these two 12x12 Ebony blocks and cut them to 6/4 stock.



 

Has anyone ever cut Ebony? I have some 4° blades on hand right back from resharp. I have been using them for my frozen oak.

I was going to try cutting them "real slow".....

Should make some interesting black sawdust here in the white wonderland.....

Jim Rogers

[Peter Drouin]

Be sure to tell us how it comes out with pics Jim  :D :D 8)

[mesquite buckeye]

Make that black stinky sawdust. ;D

[Jim_Rogers]

Well it wasn't that stinky at all, or at least I couldn't smell it.....

Was interesting for sure.

First cut of the big piece:



 

There were some strange blocks glued into the middle of these large pieces to make it one larger block.

But they are all done now:



 

The antique furniture restorer who brought these in wanted them cut to 6/4 for making other things.

One of them may be put together with mitered corners to make a sculpture stand.

You never know what will come down the driveway.....

Jim Rogers

PS. took one hour, I spend more time moving the pieces then I spend sawing.

[drobertson]

 ;D Like it!   that is always fun doing neat projects,  cool stuff for sure,  david

[Peter Drouin]

Good job cutting wood today,  :christmas:

[Magicman]

Just like a log or a fortune cookie.  You never know what is inside until you open it up.   

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Very pretty wood Jim. That's every bit of $300.00..........each. 

[schmism]

did you use your 4 deg blades?  how was feed rate etc?   Give us some more details on what it was like to saw?   (that 12" block was a hard to saw as a 18" frozen oak etc)

[backwoods sawyer]

Opening up a piece of wood to see what is in side is what it is all about ;D

Today we canted up this deck of old tight grained wester red cedar logs/chunks. lots of little spruce sprouts using them for nurse logs,
Having equipment on site sure helped with log handling and cant handling of these wet heavy pieces.
The coastal rain settled in and the rain gear was not up for the task, we were all thurly soaked and dripping wet when we lost a saw as a chunk went around the wheel on the last log in that deck, it was a good stopping point.
Have yet another deck to mill before we take the mill home.   

Little Jo has been doing most of the sawing on this trip and is a good smooth operator, she has sawn a quite a bit of wood this year, 10,000+ bft this week alone, although I may have to start carring a step stool so little Jo can see to mill these big logs. Having a second sawyer has been a real blessing, frees me up get logs ready, B.S. with customer, take a brake, B.S. with  customer, off bear, B.S. with customer ect, ect  :



 


  

  

 

[ladylake]

 That plié of logs make my crooked snarly ones look good.   Steve

[Magicman]

I may have to start carring a step stool so little Jo can see to mill these big logs. 

Here is the step that I use;  LINK  I have the top one listed.  It has a much larger platform and can be used with the logs up or down depending upon the height needed.

It is shown in Bill Gaiche's Reply# 460 in the "Goodwill" thread.  LINK

[Jim_Rogers]

did you use your 4 deg blades?  how was feed rate etc?   Give us some more details on what it was like to saw?   (that 12" block was a hard to saw as a 18" frozen oak etc)

The customer is on his way over here now to pick them up.

Edit: While I was writing this he showed up. The wood was called Kamagong which is a type of Ebony.
I did use my regular 4° blades and it wasn't anything special about it. I put my water jug back on the mill and opened it up full as I figured the blade would get hot cutting such hard wood. Which it did a little. But not enough to move the needle in the gauge.

I just cut it very slow and steady. I would say it was more or less like sawing frozen oak.

I didn't smell anything different that I noticed.

He was happy with the job and will use it to do several different projects.

I didn't save a piece for myself so I only have pictures to remind me of the milling job.

Jim Rogers

[beenthere]

Jim
Any explanation for the internal square 'holes' shown in the pics?

[Dave Shepard]

Well it wasn't that stinky at all, or at least I couldn't smell it.....

Was interesting for sure.

First cut of the big piece:



 

There were some strange blocks glued into the middle of these large pieces to make it one larger block.

But they are all done now:



 

The antique furniture restorer who brought these in wanted them cut to 6/4 for making other things.

One of them may be put together with mitered corners to make a sculpture stand.

You never know what will come down the driveway.....

Jim Rogers

PS. took one hour, I spend more time moving the pieces then I spend sawing.

[beenthere]

 ???

[Jim_Rogers]

These blocks had lots of sap wood on them. To make the blocks bigger then put the heart side of the block out, and the bark side of the blocks in. To join them they used these square blocks and glued them into these square holes.
I don't know other than what he told me that they wanted to use the blocks as a sculpture stand but they were too big and heavy.

Jim Rogers

[Dave Shepard]

beenthere, I highlighted the answer to your question in Jim's post in red.

[backwoods sawyer]

That plié of logs make my crooked snarly ones look good.   Steve

Surprizingly the recovery of sound wood is quite high. These old logs have some very tight grain (12-20 per inch) We are just going thru and making cants for now, some can be short as it will be resawn for window trim, did have one that had a double banna thing going on with an ant colony vein following the curve = low recovery. some of these chuncks came from huge old trees as one hunk was a quarter of a hollow log and took considerable chainsaw carving to make it 36x36.

Hey MM that little step has a fair sized working area, looks like the ticket, I may consider the adjustable legs option.

Jim were the square pegs from the same type of wood?

[Jim_Rogers]

Jim were the square pegs from the same type of wood?

No sure I didn't get to touch or smell one. I could email the customer and ask....

Jim Rogers

[Peter Drouin]

Today it was -4 lite wind and sun. A job 1/2 hour away.


 

The customer has a lull to move the logs around a little. He didn't put down any dunage.

The #2 pile he's going to move them ahead out of a hole there in  :D
I hope it's warmer tomorrow.
The cat on the mill ran perfect. The Wood Mizer 55x1 1/4x7 cut that frozen w pine like butter. It took and hr to warm up the Accuset2, So I could see the readout.
All an all it went well ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Good report Peter......Brrrrrrrrrrrr! 

[mesquite buckeye]

Yuck. Think I would find some inside work until spring. :(

[beenthere]

Yuck. Think I would find some inside work until spring. :(

And you'd turn up the heat to about 95 °F   ;D ;D