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    I thought it must have been quick glue....
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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    nice looking pair of boards there.

    If they are flat and straight enough you'll be able to put them through the thicky -- otherwise it might be a bit of a work out wrestling them across the jointer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    nice looking pair of boards there.

    If they are flat and straight enough you'll be able to put them through the thicky -- otherwise it might be a bit of a work out wrestling them across the jointer.
    Thanks Ian, you are spot on! Those 2 planks were milled by cutting one of the 150 x 150 x 5000 beams into thirds by length and then resawing one of the thirds into 150 x 75. They still weigh about 20kg each. One of the planks was run over the jointer (face and edge) whereas the other was put straight onto the thicknesser with the chainsawn face direct on to the table! Unfortunately the timber was not milled nor dried with any care and there are many splits and shakes. I guess a ‘marketing’ description would be “timber with characer”?
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    for what it's worth I suggest you mill the timber into 50 mm thick boards and just accept that more than half of what you have will end up either as dust from the chain saw or in the dusty.

    alternatively, Greg Ward might be able to pass on some milling tips
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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
    How come the horses are still standing?
    'Cos he was in rip mode, not cross-cut?
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    Those of you who know me, would realise that I have NIL ability in keeping (at least woodworking?) secrets!
    The furniture that I am making as a sign of reverence to the “murdered tree” is to be a .....uhm ..... SURPRISE!
    This could make WIPs a little tricky as you never know who may be reading the thread. For example, I didn’t know that I had been working with 62woollybugger for 20 years. Strangely enough, he didn’t use that name at work
    However, at this early stage of making components, I can’t give away too many secrets by posting a WIP?
    My new design requires a number of curved sections and I didn’t fancy trying to steam bend a timber, one of whose common names is bastard box? I made a substantial former of the required diameter.....

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    .... and have made the first prototype which has now been sanded to 800 and finished only with WOP..

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    I experimented with thickness of laminations and have settled on 5 mm thick and held with my standard Titebond glue.
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    Fletty, better known as GaGa to the grand urchins, was in trouble because the timber for the SURPRISE project was under the flying fox installed as a Christmas gift and a number of fairly spectacular impacts have ensued!

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    Thanks to to a lot of help from fencefurniture, the timber stash has been moved and partly milled

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    GaGa’s reputation as a caring grandfather has been restored but his reputation as a timber miller is still in serious doubt? The electric chainsaw with a cross cut chain just wasn’t up to the task of ripping the 150 x 150 timber. By the third of 15 pieces, the thermal overload was tripping after only 200mm of cut. The chainsaw was too small to fit a ripping chain and so a new petrol chainsaw and ripping chains have been ordered!
    So far, the 5 metre lengths of 150 x 150 and 250 x 40 have all been docked to ~1500mm lengths although the 150 x 150 are still bl**dy heavy and too heavy for one man to handle through the bandsaw both before AND AFTER being ripped on the chainsaw, which brings me to the second issue ....... the bandsaw!

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    The drift on my Laguna 14Twelve is currently extreme and the cut is made even worse by the inability to manoeuvre the heavy workpiece to compensate for it. I had it cutting sweetly after doing a complete ‘Snodgrass-tune’ but it has progressively developed a now intolerable drift. So, while waiting for the chainsaw and rip chains, I’m about to REtune my bandsaw and maybe buy a new ripping blade?
    It’s lucky I’m enjoying this
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    Maybe you need a bigger bandsaw . . .
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    For ripping hard timber in that dimension I would suggest either 3/4" or 1" pitch. If you are currently using a multi ppi balde it will not be clearing the sawdust and probably be overheating. As soon as that becomes significant the relatively thin band saw blade will wander as the tooth edge becomes longer than the back edge with expansion from the heat.

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    As above, I have a 2tpi and a 3 tpi blade for ripping. The 2 tpi is very aggressive!
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    Fletty, either there's an echo in your 'puter, or your posting finger has got the stutters! Whatever, you seem to be doing a lot of double-posts lately. It's no big deal & easy for me to tidy up, but I do wonder what causes it?

    Don't envy you wrestling with all that heavy lumber - I finally realised about a year ago that slabbing hardwood logs is a thing of the past for me.....

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    Whilst fletty is attending to other things for the evening, at the end of which he may well be a gaga GaGa, I know that he is using a Resaw King blade on the bandsaw, which is apparently a variable 2/3 tpi. The spaces between the teeth are 12/14/16mm.

    This first block was reasonably easy to saw in half but the next one just stymied the electric chainsaw. I figured the blade must be blunt, however when we used it for crosscut docking of these big 140x140 boys it was very apparent that the blade was still quite sharp. Musta bin a particularly silcacious log, or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IanW View Post
    Whatever, you seem to be doing a lot of double-posts lately. It's no big deal & easy for me to tidy up, but I do wonder what causes it?
    I'm pretty sure that this is a result of the forum being as slow as it is. There are lots of double posts everywhere Ian.

    What happens is that the poster thinks nothing is happening so they click "Post reply" again. What they need to do is note that even though nothing appears to be happening, the "Post reply" button has changed to glowing, which means that in time, possibly before one of us dies, the original click will have worked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IanW View Post
    Fletty, either there's an echo in your 'puter, or your posting finger has got the stutters! Whatever, you seem to be doing a lot of double-posts lately. It's no big deal & easy for me to tidy up, but I do wonder what causes it?
    Sorry Ian, I think FF might be right? I push SEND and nothing seems to happen .... so I push it again? I’ll wait longer in the future and see if that is the cause.
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    OK, I see, so you don't need medication, just a dose of patience!

    Yeah, I've been caught myself, but have learnt to glance at the top and see if the little black spot is circling (I use Firefox, but there's no doubt something similar with whatever platform you all use), so I know my 'puter has done its bit & is just waiting for Ubeaut to wake up & talk to us. It does get a bit dozy at times, I guess that means the audience is growing, which is good - sort of.....

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