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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.

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...

That was cool! Thanks for sharing!

Great to see the process! That is one serious band saw!

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Tony Thatcher
Bozeman, Montana

GREAT video, can't wait to need some Sitka!!

Oh yeah I think I need a bigger band saw

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Thank You and Best To All

Very cool indeed. Looks like very rewarding work from forest to wood shop..

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?

Personal Protective Equipment

Respirator, glasses, and hearing protection, all of which should be used while resawing...

Great video, but why the banjo!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Great video and great music. Who was the band?

Thanks for posting!

Terry

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It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong.

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.

You are absolutley correct and usually used. Good this OSHA didnt show up that afternoon.

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.

Super

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guitarsbygiltzow.com

I want to work for you!

Great video. It really puts in perspective the amount of effort it takes to put wood on the shelves.

Cheers.

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.