wood butchery 101 ...

[hubcapsc]

I started some cabinets over the Christmas break. I got their guts
done, now I need to put the outside on them... the part you see.

We have a big stack of "groove and groove" thick pine boards from
when Utica Mill was torn down in Seneca 15 or 20 years ago. They were
splined together, that's why they are groove and groove instead of tongue
and groove. When I post maintenance pictures, you see them in the background.
You can see a bunch of splines I have bundled together in this picture...



The boards are around 20 feet long, I took a couple of short pieces that were left over
from something else and processed them down to boards I might use on the cabinet.
I'll need more, and the next 20 foot board in the stack looks like a real good one, so I
might not use these at all, it is hard to tell how good it looks inside until you look
inside  ...

First off, there's icky creosote tarry (carcinogenic probably) goo on one side of some of
the boards, that needs to go right away, so I resawed the icky side off, and also cut
off the grooves...



My circle saw at full depth of cut won't resaw the whole board through even by going
down each side, so I finished off the resaw with a sawzall...



Run what's left through the planer a few times to get them to the approximate
thickness needed for the cabinet front...



Voila, nice pumpkin colored old pine boards! 



I won't use the knots in the cabinet front, it will be made from smaller pieces,
stiles and stuff like the store bought cabinets in the background of this picture...



-Mike

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Looks good and heavy duty to boot .

[Gavin_Sons]

Good looking pup, oh and cabinet too 

[hubcapsc]

Looks good and heavy duty to boot .

Thanks... the big boxy thing slides out to reveal shelves on each side... the
hardware for the slide out is rated at 450 lbs...

-Mike

[hubcapsc]

Good looking pup, oh and cabinet too 

Bentley... she's six months old now. A mouthy Australian Shepherd. I
call her Bitely a lot  ...

-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

Good looking pup, oh and cabinet too 

Bentley... she's six months old now. A mouthy Australian Shepherd. I
call her Bitely a lot  ...

-Mike

Not Fruit of the Loom ?

[old2soon]

After the resaw from the pics I'd say some might fine lookin wood.  Git em done gotta see the finished pics!  RIDE SAFE.

[Gavin_Sons]

Good looking pup, oh and cabinet too 

Bentley... she's six months old now. A mouthy Australian Shepherd. I
call her Bitely a lot  ...

-Mike

We have a blue heeler mix and she is very mouthy. Smarter than any dog should be. She is 10 now and great with our boys. Our bloodhound is now a year old and about 80 pounds heis all legs, heshould bulk up this year and end up being 115-120 pounds. He thinks he is a lap dog.

[Jersey mike]

That's a nice finished product you have there,especially from cutting both sides and finishing with the sawzall. Surprised you don't have a 10" table saw or swivel head radial arm saw though, it looks like you do a bit of wood work.

Good luck finishing the project.

[mark81]

May be time to invest in a bandsaw. That cabinet looks like even my sister's kids couldn't break it. No cheap plywood and veneer carcass.

[hubcapsc]

Thanks... y'all have seen pictures of me working on my bike outside
on a dirt floor... I don't have any room for that woodworking stuff.

I like working with my stone tools and bearskins, so its OK  ... all
of this stuff will cut your fingers off, and I've become fairly
safe with these few tools I do have. Sliding radial arm saws and
stuff will cut your whole arm off  ...

A Powermatic resaw bandsaw would be an an awe$some tool, around
$4,500... a Chinese Jet resaw bandsaw would be around $1,500... and they're
big...



A jointer would be a good thing, but no room and I only have an
occasional need...

With what I've got I can pretty much fake anything, as long as I don't want
to build a wooden boat or a guitar or something, and I don't plan to do that.
I guess these builtin things I've built count as "furniture", but more like
"Norm" furniture, not Fine Furniture...

I'd like to get a better planer, but even that crappy old one I have does a
pretty good job with new blades in it. It makes boards pretty flat, and if
you put them through on edge, its not quite like it was run through a
jointer, but it does OK...

-Mike

[pais]

   
   The beauty of wood, it can for the most part always be fixed, re-used. What you've done and are doing is a good example.  Anxious to see the finished product!

[The emperor has no clothes]

Thanks... y'all have seen pictures of me working on my bike outside
on a dirt floor... I don't have any room for that woodworking stuff.

I like working with my stone tools and bearskins, so its OK  ... all
of this stuff will cut your fingers off, and I've become fairly
safe with these few tools I do have. Sliding radial arm saws and
stuff will cut your whole arm off  ...

A Powermatic resaw bandsaw would be an an awe$some tool, around
$4,500... a Chinese Jet resaw bandsaw would be around $1,500... and they're
big...



A jointer would be a good thing, but no room and I only have an
occasional need...

With what I've got I can pretty much fake anything, as long as I don't want
to build a wooden boat or a guitar or something, and I don't plan to do that.
I guess these builtin things I've built count as "furniture", but more like
"Norm" furniture, not Fine Furniture...

I'd like to get a better planer, but even that crappy old one I have does a
pretty good job with new blades in it. It makes boards pretty flat, and if
you put them through on edge, its not quite like it was run through a
jointer, but it does OK...

-Mike

You are one tough dude Mike ! Seeing that saw and planer down at ground level makes my back ache just thinking about it. I wish we had old barns and such around here to get old wood from. Looks very nice. 

[hubcapsc]

Seeing that saw and planer down at ground level makes my back ache

I'm getting old too, I'll keep stooping as long as I can. I do all kinds of work
on the ground, the floor in my main unfinished room is a great table 

Reclaimed lumber is a big industry, but when you buy it from the reclaimer, it
costs a bunch of money. I've reclaimed most of the stuff I've got right off the
wall of old houses about to be torn down, and the mill boards "raw" from the
guy who tore down Utica mill. They reclaim stuff in all the states, here's
a web page for an Arizona reclaimer...

http://oldsollumber.com/gallery/

The best yellow pine is "river recovered", I wish I could do the main room
I currently work in in river recovered yellow pine... perfect old growth
pine logs that sank 150 years ago when they were logging the original
forests and floating the logs down the river to the mill... by the time
they fetch the logs out of the river and mill them down and stuff, you
might was well plan to cover your floor with slabs of gold...



"fat lighter" and "heart pine" are basically the same thing, but the slow-growth pines in
the original forests were practically 100% fat lighter..

-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

Thanks for the info. I didn't know they had that here.