GREAT video, can't wait to need some Sitka!!
Oh yeah I think I need a bigger band saw
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| Author: | Alaska Splty Woods [ Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 min |
A 6 minute compilation video Brent Jr spent over a week to produce, from hours of video, and hundreds of pictures. https://youtu.be/oFwK9VcLRKE This is a first, we wanted to have done prior to our trip to Winter NAMM. We will do more of these for various opperations and they will get better. Contact us if you will be in Anaheim at the NAMM show and would like to meet. Dont hold back from visiting AlaskaWoods.com to get your Sitka Spruce soundboards, bracewood, or Cedar products of the same. |
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Cool! Reminds me of my Larrivee days when Jean would buy a couple of trees and we'd have them delivered in rounds to the parking lot, to be blocked and sawed as fast as could be done. Wish your sawyer would use PPE though... |
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| Author: | MetalOne72 [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
That was cool! Thanks for sharing! |
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| Author: | mountain whimsy [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Great to see the process! That is one serious band saw! |
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| Author: | LarryH [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
GREAT video, can't wait to need some Sitka!! Oh yeah I think I need a bigger band saw
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Very cool indeed. Looks like very rewarding work from forest to wood shop.. |
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| Author: | Alaska Splty Woods [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
meddlingfool wrote: Cool! Reminds me of my Larrivee days when Jean would buy a couple of trees and we'd have them delivered in rounds to the parking lot, to be blocked and sawed as fast as could be done. Wish your sawyer would use PPE though... Ya, fast before loosing wood to checking.. Ryan and I saw on rhe vertical 42” industrials, and Brent Jr saws on a Mighty Mite horizontal bandmill to cut bass fronts, over 36” long long and over 14” wide products.. What is PPE? |
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Personal Protective Equipment Respirator, glasses, and hearing protection, all of which should be used while resawing... |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Great video, but why the banjo! |
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| Author: | Terence Kennedy [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Great video and great music. Who was the band? Thanks for posting! Terry |
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| Author: | Alaska Splty Woods [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Colin North wrote: Great video, but why the banjo! Well Brent Jr has thousands of songs but was unable to get them loaded into a hard drive and indexed through some app to find what he really wanted. And we ran out of time. Annette and I left Saturday morn and this is what we decided on from the 2 versions friday evening. We agree about bango. But we have produced sitka soundboards for banjos for a few rare birds. |
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| Author: | Alaska Splty Woods [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
meddlingfool wrote: Personal Protective Equipment Respirator, glasses, and hearing protection, all of which should be used while resawing... You are absolutley correct and usually used. Good this OSHA didnt show up that afternoon. |
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| Author: | jfmckenna [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
How often do you have to reset and sharpen that bandsaw blade? |
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| Author: | Alaska Splty Woods [ Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
jfmckenna wrote: How often do you have to reset and sharpen that bandsaw blade? When cutting sitka, it is usually about 100 cuts, pulling the saw through 6+”’s of thickness of back cut and face cuts for tops..correction trims, etc.. Which for yeild, is about 30 booksets. But if I have some yellow cedar block to cut, I can cut 15-20 sets of that, and if we have some red cedar block to cut, I can get another 15-20 sets of that specie as well.. But sitka is tough fiber stuff..But most of our sitka is very wet from bridge stringer logs and float logs, etc. If the sitka where drier, it would shear easier and we could cut twice the amount.. Doesn’t happen much for us, with the salvage fiber we procure and process. We clean and re-set the saw before each sharpening, takes about 10-12 minutes to set and 14 minutes to sharpen on our Armstrong #2 grinder. |
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| Author: | giltzow [ Tue Jan 22, 2019 6:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Super |
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| Author: | Herr Dalbergia [ Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
I want to work for you! |
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| Author: | G.Cummins [ Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Great video. It really puts in perspective the amount of effort it takes to put wood on the shelves. Cheers. |
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| Author: | Mike OMelia [ Sat Jan 26, 2019 2:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Awesome video! AND, I really love your new website, WAY better organized, WAY better presentation. Did you replace ur house yet? Mike |
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| Author: | Alaska Splty Woods [ Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 24 yrs-100% tonewood, What we do. A Day With ASW in 6 mi |
Mike OMelia wrote: Awesome video! AND, I really love your new website, WAY better organized, WAY better presentation. Did you replace ur house yet? Mike Thank you Mike. I thought so too.. It deffenitly is easier to use on a tablet or computer than on phone.. Only a few folks have fo8nd it difficult to use.. We [Annette and I ]are actually living in what was goung to be Office, conferance room and breakroom, by turning that 650 sq ft in the shop to appartment.. We are building a small house for Brent Jr and his fiance’ where our home burnt down in 2016... Maybe if we can move enough product for revenue to move ahead, instead of just get by, I will be able to buid the dream home I have wanted to build Annette since 1992. Unfortunatly, currency exchange rates for intl. orders and shipping to everywhere to and from Alaska, is kicking our butt. It’s s blessing to have the forest and ocean around us for most all of our protien to subsist on. We wanna make some vieos of interest, for that part of our story too. |
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