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  1. New Member Introductions
    Anyone have any tips on freehand vertical board milling? I have a ripping chain and it seems, if I keep the saw moving, sharp, and with less tooth contact, it works ok on keeping the cut straight and vertical.
  2. Milled back to life “old growth” lumber

    Finished project : kiln dried/sterilized milled t&g v-grooved flooring. carefully removed lumber from an early American cabin/granary as it sat firstly built in 1650.floors feature raised inlays and borders Btw 1” and 1-1/4” thick t&g with a heavy v-groove. this timber was left in its natural...
  3. General Woodworking Discussions
    Hey all! I've been battling a Rikon 6in. benchtop jointer for several days trying to get a flat face joint. Every time I joint a board, there is a slight bow created. I followed the manual's directions to level the blade (at the highest point in its rotation) with the outfeed and infeed tables...
  4. Forestry & Milling
    Hi everyone: We bought 4k linear feet of 1x6 Doug Fir tongue and groove paneling recently to use as the ceiling of a timberframe house we're building in rural Alaska. When we dug into it we were dismayed to find that most of it had significant problems - tearout, pits, and a lot of roller burn...
  5. General Woodworking Discussions
    Good afternoon all!! This is my first time on here and wanted to get everyone opinion on this. I've found some local places around me here in Tampa, FL for some lumber that I started making cutting boards with, coasters, etc. But every time I go, selection is absolutely horrendous. I get...
  6. General Woodworking Discussions
    Last year my husband and I had two mature ash trees cut down and milled into 1-inch thick boards. We have almost no woodworking knowledge but were having a hard time saying goodbye to our trees and thought it was a brilliant idea, at the time, to mill them and build furniture out of them. This...
  7. Forestry & Milling
    Hello, I am fairly new to woodworking and I need input from woodworkers experienced with Chilean mesquite. 1. Is this wood suitable for making an end grain chopping block? 2. How long should I let me log cure before cutting it into boards and turning blocks? 3. Any other advise for someone...
  8. General Woodworking Discussions
    Hi there, I'm a complete novice to all kinds of wood-working, but I have a neat idea that I'd like to try out. It involves using a metal-cutting milling machine (hand operated) to mill out the interior of a block of wood (cuboid of outer size: 4w x 4h x 2d inches) to make space for some LED...
  9. Forestry & Milling
    Hello all! I'm new to the forum. I've been reading through many posts but this is my first official one. I have become very interested in milling! I'm very seriously considering buying a portable sawmill, Probably a new Woodmizer LT28. Anyways, I will give you my situation and see if you...
  10. Forestry & Milling
    I have been lurking around these forums for the last couple months now and finally this is my first post. I have been wanting to get into serious wood working since before I was in high school but never had the money to start on such a venture. Now that I have just graduated from college and...
  11. New Member Introductions
    Hello all, another new member here. You'll find me in the joinery, hand tools and milling forums mostly, as I'm a furniture maker who loves hand tools and I also run a lumber yard that harvests urban trees from within New York City. So milling wide slabs, tuning hand tools to work well and...
  12. Forestry & Milling
    Just got a hold of some local Monterey County Black Acacia. Anyone have any experience with this species? Do's & and Don'ts? What's a good price / bf on Black Acacia?
  13. Woodworking Videos
    close up log wagon on a rail and 7" wide bandsaw cutting process:
  14. Power Tools & Machinery
    Hi folks, I'm looking to graduate into a larger shaper to do some custom entry doors as well as give a garage door a whirl. Need to be able to do arches as well. I currently have a regent 1 hp 2 speed unit. prefer to use a single phase unit but i do have a phase converter if needed. Any...
  15. Forestry & Milling
    Hope this is the correct forum to ask this. I have recently hit on the idea (considering the price of timber) of collecting logs from trees cut down by our local municipality, having them milled, dried and stored for future use. Right now I have some pine or fir I have yet to identify, some...
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