Summer Challenge 2007 - A Bridge Too Short #2: Resawing Cedar

Bob, nice setup and beautiful wood/boards you made. What blade are you using to resaw with? tpi? Thanks.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Up, Up and away!
Great you got the bandsaw going and it looks like it cutting fairly staight too.
You’ll be done in no time now!
Where’d you get the cedar?
Is it local for you?

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

He got it from Mark DeCou. It’s trash wood in Kansas.

Great looking resawing Bob.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I love the bridge… oh I mean table saw… oh I mean wood…

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Hi Bob;
—-ha!....just keep on sawing and you will make it in time!

Actually on the #3 photo down, after looking at the cedar on the bandsaw…..I then looked outside. Now I can’t stop looking at all the wonder-full green outside there….great chunk of green land there….

Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

That’s some beautiful wood, & I like your re-saw setup.
I had an old issue of Shopmith Magazine that had a nice re-sawing setup, but I can’t find it. I think it had rollers on it. Maybe someone could find this article on the INTERNET. I’ve tried with no success.

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Love the red cedar. Looks like a trip to Kansas is in my future, or Texas. I have not saw much of it around my part of Oklahoma.

Good looking fence set-up…

Looks like there’s possibly a can of wax in one of those pics…that may help a (little) bit – for now.

How green is that wood – or how dry is the wood? Probably doesn’t matter a too too much for the bridge project, but just curious where the wood is at!

Go Bob!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Os – I’ve got a Highland Woodworking Woodslicer on it…..4 tpi.

Bob – Yes the bandsaw is finally back in shape….running well but this thickness was almost too much for it. The cedar is local. My daughters boyfriend got it for me. It grows in abundance around here.

Frank – my garden is a mess, most of what you see just beyond the shed is weeds. We’ll be putting it back into shape this fall. Going to be half perrenials and half veggies next year.

Dick – I built this from recollection of one I saw and added the extra long fence. I had the plans for a good one and somehow missplaced the magazine. I’m still going to add to this. I may make it a double sled and have a crank handle to feed the wood. I’m thinking mini-mill. Wish I had opted for more hp when I bought the saw. I had to feed this fairly slow.

Buck – this wood is local actually. I also have some larger logs that I don’t want to cut for this project. I have plans to use them whole.

Dorje – I did wax it. Helped for sure. As I mentioned to Dick I’m going to play with this setup some. I want full infeed and outfeed support and a threaded rod on a crankhandle to move the sled. The wood is very green, hopefully that will work for me. The plan is for half lap joints pegged with fox tenons on one end and wedge tenons on the other. The dowels are very dry white oak with dry cedar wedges. I’m hoping the dowels/tenons swell up from the surrounding moisture as the woods equalize and fully lock this together.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org