Sawdust and Toothpicks

[egon]

Some pictures of efforts to turn logs into saw dust.

Cutting up a maple log.

Egon

[egon]

Resawing some maple.

Egon

[egon]

Sawn Maple stacked for drying.

Egon

[egon]

One use for a radial arm saw. Unfortunately all the work was for naught just as suspected but had to try.

Egon

[egon]

Resawn slab.

Egon

[egon]

After some more wasted work.

Egon

[mfaley]

So Egon,
Why is that wasted work? Is the wood bad? Or miscut?

Mark

[GaryM]

There's an article in the latest issue of WOOD magazine on flattening wood with a jig and router. Haven't read it yet, but it's mentioned on the cover.

[egon]

Thanks Gary. I'll check the library and check out the article.

Our local library has several other books that depict many router jigs. Have hopes of making one to make long round or tapered pieces.

I used the radial arm saw as it was end grain and worked much faster than an electric hand planer.

Egon