Saw Milling Experiment
Posted: 09 Jan 2017, 13:02
I hope starting this tread under the WIP section is the correct place, if not please move it mods.
I recovered a small tree stump from a fallen tree behind the beach house and decided to see if I could manage to cut boards from it. Unfortunately I don't have access to a band saw so i was forced to use a hand saw and my table saw where possible.
The first cut was made by hand:
The aim was just to see what the inside of the stump actually looks like, it turns out I was more curious after doing the first cut . I cleaned up the one side of the cut with the belt sander just to see what the grain looks like and it seemed rather interesting:
Those are not cracks but appears to be the grain.
After a lot of head scratching I managed to cut 3 full boards ( I didn't measure but they are probably about 300mm x 90mm x 15mm) as well as a number of off-cuts.
The grain looks really interesting, so I'm quite keen to see what I can get out of the other half of the stump!
The big limiting factor is the max cutting depth of the TS, I could also see it was working hard to cut through a log at full depth.
Thanks for looking!
I recovered a small tree stump from a fallen tree behind the beach house and decided to see if I could manage to cut boards from it. Unfortunately I don't have access to a band saw so i was forced to use a hand saw and my table saw where possible.
The first cut was made by hand:
The aim was just to see what the inside of the stump actually looks like, it turns out I was more curious after doing the first cut . I cleaned up the one side of the cut with the belt sander just to see what the grain looks like and it seemed rather interesting:
Those are not cracks but appears to be the grain.
After a lot of head scratching I managed to cut 3 full boards ( I didn't measure but they are probably about 300mm x 90mm x 15mm) as well as a number of off-cuts.
The grain looks really interesting, so I'm quite keen to see what I can get out of the other half of the stump!
The big limiting factor is the max cutting depth of the TS, I could also see it was working hard to cut through a log at full depth.
Thanks for looking!