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15th April 2017, 02:05 PM #1
Novice Milling Guide for Turning Blanks and Slabs Tables etc
I am not a professional miller but have a decent amount of experience at milling logs with my chainsaw mill and assisting other professional millers with their Lucas Mills. As I often do, I had another member ask me for some guidance on how to cut up his logs with his chainsaw mill for turning blanks, so I decided to put a guide together on what I generally do with some other info from the internet.
Any comments/suggestions welcome.Neil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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15th April 2017, 04:40 PM #2
Very useful Neil. Thank you.
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15th April 2017, 05:33 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Thank you Neil, this is a great document.
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15th April 2017, 05:56 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Well done. Thank you very much.
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15th April 2017, 09:02 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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As others have already replied, a BIG THANK YOU Neil,.
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16th April 2017, 06:26 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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Very clear and very useful. Thank-you.
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19th April 2017, 07:50 PM #7
Thanks Neil, the PDF is excellent to save for future reference for those of us that need refreshing!
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20th April 2017, 05:29 PM #8Skwair2rownd
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Excellent Neil!!
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23rd May 2017, 10:01 PM #9New Member
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Thanks for this fine share of info
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1st September 2018, 10:16 PM #10New Member
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Thank you for sharing. It is a very good document for beginners to understand, cheers
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1st September 2018, 10:39 PM #11
Thanks Neil;
Would you object if I printed off a copy for the Bundaberg Woodworkers Guild? We often get free logs given to us for slabbing and I think this would be a great aide de memoir for the millers.Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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2nd September 2018, 12:37 AM #12
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2nd September 2018, 07:58 AM #13
Good idea, so many good logs / billets are ruined through poor planning of the cutting process. We were only discussing this the other day in Innisfail while looking at a pile of freshly cut turning blanks.
I would suggest wood turners have a read up on John Jordan's excellent articles at
https://www.johnjordanwoodturning.co..._Articles.html
such as
https://www.johnjordanwoodturning.co...al_Impact.html
https://www.johnjordanwoodturning.co...ding_Wood.htmlMobyturns
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31st January 2023, 07:19 PM #14Novice
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Thanks! Super useful
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1st February 2023, 02:04 PM #15
Thanks, Neil.
I note that you have repeated that old furfy drawing of a "true quartersawn" sawing pattern. How do you cut that pattern on any saw carriage or saw table?
Quartersawn.jpgSource: Neil.
That pattern actually pre-dates sawing and is from the era when logs were split - wedges, hammers and pry-bars - and then quartered, eighthed, sixteenthed, etc - and then the resultant timber wedges were trimmed by splitting and adzing into planks. It made a lot of sense, then.
I saw post and rail fences being made that way in the 1960's.