Sawmill

[supro66]

I have always been into wood working I got my new Garage built at my new house a Rancher on 2 1/2 acres with lots of timber.



I cleared my front yard of some Ash trees.


I am going to build a sawmill to extract the lumber.
I will post my work as it goes along with drawings so stay tuned

Here are the plans I got

http://www.procutportablesawmills.com/air_drying_lumber.html

Hardware supplier I found
http://www.thebigbearingstore.com/servlet/the-9/1%22-Pillow-Block-Bearing/Detail

Now if I knew where Doug lived I could get some parts made

MY TUBE AMP SITE
http://www.geocities.com/insp/SUPRO6420.html

I plan to make some LAP STEEL GUITARS like these
http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn87/tompettingill/

[EL34]

There's a big sawmill just down the road from me.
huge Piles of cheap rough cut boards and mounds of free hardwood mulch.

Sounds like a fun project

[supro66]

EL34

Would be interested in makeing some parts for me

This way I could drive down and pick up some of that hard wood

[EL34]

Making parts?

What do you mean?

I really don't make anything, anymore.

Used to make things years ago, now I am just a retail merchant.

[supro66]

I thought you had the Milling machine shop CNC as a hobby?
I got to pay some one for some machined parts.

I built my first Supro from your store

[EL34]

No, that's one of my hobbies and I intend to keep it fun.

The best way to ruin a hobby is to make it a business.

CNC'ing a part would be about $300 if you charged for all the time it takes to
Do a Cad drawing
Do the CAM machine instructions.
Cut the part on a CNC machine and stand there to watch it. (like watching paint dry and maybe just slightly less painful)

Go to a CNC shop and give them the spec's of what you want and then be prepared to fork out huge sums of money.
At least for the setup time.

[supro66]

Thank you back to the welding shop I guess

[supro66]

I have been around CNC machines most all of my life I am a machine shop inspector

At Westinghouse Steam Turbine Division in Philadelphia Pa I had to do the first inspection piece from the Numerical Control Machines back then in 1970 it was a one inch wide Mylar tape with holes in it we used

At Boeing Helicopters we have CNC and I check the parts on a CMM inspection table.
I do some CMM  programs to inspect some parts.

I like the Zeiss machines

[supro66]

No, that's one of my hobbies and I intend to keep it fun.

The best way to ruin a hobby is to make it a business.

CNC'ing a part would be about $300 if you charged for all the time it takes to
Do a Cad drawing
Do the CAM machine instructions.
Cut the part on a CNC machine and stand there to watch it. (like watching paint dry and maybe just slightly less painful)

Go to a CNC shop and give them the spec's of what you want and then be prepared to fork out huge sums of money.
At least for the setup time.

This is called epoxy inlay in a cherry table top the carving was done with a CNC
I bet it was like watching a lot of paint dry

NOT MY WORK