Quarter Sawing Oak the PROPER way!

[Music] really nothing else to do now but to go test them alright guys so we're back in the mill and I was able to test these out so here it is that's how it fits down all into the mill let's get the other one in there and see if we can get some lumber out of it that's what I was looking for that's better so if you can see this grain that pretty well puts that grain as vertical to the face of the boards and well I think I'll do is I'll cut this top triangle off right here and then I'll start getting boards out of here and he can see right here I was I struggled a little bit when I was a quarter in this log but it's not didn't go all the way through so it's fine so after I get to maybe about right here and I think I'll take it off of the jig flip it over and I think I'll be able to saw at least one more board out of this right here let's go and get started and see what we get [Music] [Music] [Music] so y'all might have noticed that kind of made a mistake on this when this log was not straight and well this can't was not straight and it kind of just made some made some wonky cuts but let's just see what it see what that turned out can I think I'll do another one see if we can get it a little bit closer yeah that's probably got a lot of knots in it it is very pretty lumber but it does have quite a few knots in it I mean you know I wouldn't have any problem using that the flooring or something like that but it's not real good for not I think that would be a real high quality lumber but we didn't have quite a bit of quarter sawn grain in there if you can look at that there's a little flecks in there so I think the jig works I believe it's going to take some practice to really get proficient with it but you know I believe it works I believe we've got to believe we've got a winner I'm gonna try another can't actually let's go ahead a little bit lower here and see what else we do what else we got there we go all right so this can is actually a little bit straighter I think we'll be able to get some more even boards off of it so what I want to do I'm going to assume that this is waste this triangle right here is waste and I'm going to go ahead and assume that this right here is going to be my first board so I'm going to adjust these jigs to so that the grain on these first couple of boards ends up being perfectly vertical with the face of the board after that we'll move it wherever we need it to see if we can get you know all of the grain on these all the grain on these boards as vertical as possible [Applause] so now with this wedge out of the way we can start getting our getting our lumber so I think I can get several boards out of this before I have to adjust again and then we'll adjust back this way to make that grain go vertical again let's get started and see what we can get [Music] so now I think I want to take this log oh this can't rather and adjust it back this way so that we can start lining that lining those back green up again so guys what I decided to do there if I were to go any lower with the blade it would start hitting my jigs so I cut this wedge out right here and I'm gonna turn this camp all the way over so the dish is on the bottom and I'm going to cut another board out of that and so so yeah I'm telling jigs off and we're going to do that and see how that works and that's that's essentially a piece of lap siding right there [Music] so that's it guys and that method produced eight boards which is two more than the previous methods so I guess these jigs did help to make it a little more efficient and I hope these you were able to get a good shot at the grain on those last few shots there it is some very pretty lumber that was produced out of that but let's let's look at what we've learned here I think that I have learned that the alt 10-mile it will produce some Porter sawn lumber it will work you to death in the process I think your best bet is instead of using the mill to produce quarters if you can produce those quarters some other way maybe with a chainsaw mill or a axe and a wedge and then put the quarters on the mill you would do a lot better and the reason for that is I think you need much bigger quarters to produce decent amounts of quarter sawn lumber and the mill is just not capable of quartering up large logs so I think this mill excels at plane sawing and honestly that's that's what I'm gonna go back to because this quarter sawn project is kind of taking the joy out of saw milling for me and I'm perfectly content with the way plain sawn lumber looks so I'm glad that I did this I'm glad I made these jigs they do work that it seemed to work if y'all have some suggestions on making them better please let me know but I think the quarter-sawn experiment avail t10 for me at least is probably over where everybody has been subscribing lately I really appreciate your support the channel has been growing in a big way lately and I appreciate all the support that y'all looking show in this 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Channel: Fall Line Ridge

Views: 179,001

Keywords: Sawmill, Fall Line Ridge, sawmilling, milling, sawdust, wood mizer, wood mizer lt10, red oak, oak, quarter sawing, quarter saw, homestead, homesteading, manual mill, quartersaw, quarter sawn, forestry

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Length: 12min 53sec (773 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 13 2018