Sawmillin'

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We saw a lot of Tulip Poplar here in N. GA....the interior can be widely streaked with a greenish color than can be fairly solid or streaky...dried and milled into 3/4 T&G it makes beautiful interior paneling and trim...

throughout the south east it is common to see it the big box stores milled into interior moldings and milled trim (base boards, crown mouldings, chair rails etc., etc...)...the green color gives it away...it is often sold as "paint grade" because of the green streaks...

There is also a market for Tulip Poplar bark...if removed properly it can wholesale for several dollars a square foot...it is used to make exterior siding panels/shingles...

Poplar Bark Siding | Luxury Wood Shingle Siding | Bark House

 

[om21braz]

I have one piece of East Indian rosewood....5/4 x 9-10" x 8' long I bought at World of Hardwoods in Maryland in the 70's. I understand it is now restricted from export by the Indian govt.

Still waiting on the appropriate project to hit me for it. REALLY hard, dense pc of wood, I'll tell you that !

Guitar? That is one of the more popular woods for sides, backs and fretboards.

 

[bunyip]

Mine is rosewood, body and neck, fretboard ebony, soundboard cedar

 

[oosik]

Rosewood is one of the more preferred woods for stringed instruments - for the body. Spruce for the soundboard.

 

[bunyip]

I realise this is digressing but the guitar pictured is a Maton C50, the budget model is the C25 and had the spruce soundboard, the cedar is very tight and straight grained and has far superior tone and projection than the spruce........ in this instance.
This is not my main guitar but a favourite nonetheless, my Ramirez (read lots more $$$$$$$$) is a spruce soundboard.
I paid about $1k for the Maton in about 1985 and $7k for the other in Spain about a decade later, this is AU$.
Maton Classicals are no longer made and mine was one of the last at number 743, the owner died and the business continued but only in electric and acoustics.
This is me and my Maton from a couple of years ago
VimeUhOh

 

[Stimw]

Might as well post pics of my HF mill. For the price $1600. (when they took the 25% coupon) it does a great job.
Since I moved I lost my source of logs and have not found another.

 

[TnAndy]

Might as well post pics of my HF mill. For the price $1600. (when they took the 25% coupon) it does a great job.

Beautiful yellow pine 6x6 man ! :thumbsup:

Back in 1991 when I bought my Woodmizer, there weren't many options in the small band mill game, so I bit the bullet and paid around 13k for mine with a sharpening package. I figure it LONG ago paid for itself in material savings. Now days, there are lots of even lower cost options out there with Harbor Freight/etc...it puts a mill in the almost 'got to have one' category IF you have a fair amount of timber on your place, and IF you have a need for inexpensive lumber. Giving your timber away to a logger for 15 cents/bdft on the stump or turning it into a 50-60c/bdft like that 6x6 is a no brainer to me.

Further turning that lumber into rental houses ( I did 3 when my white pines got killed off by the pine beetle) can make you a ton of money !

Since I moved I lost my source of logs and have not found another.

Never had much luck getting logger to bring me logs, I occasionally luck up with tree services before they wack some beautiful hardwood tree into firewood chunks. Passed by a nice ash one day laying in a guy's yard, stopped and asked "Yeah; the were supposed to come back and cut that up"....."You pay them already?" ...."Yeah"....."They AIN'T coming back....ahahaha"......nice big free ash log that turned into this:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Nice.

If i was young and had the trees, id have a band saw mill.

 

[Stimw]

Here are some boards I cut for a friend who was building a second floor office in his metal building.
I find the sawmill FUN! As a hobby. For a living? The cheaper the mill the harder you will work.