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Cheers, Alex

These are those backing boards when I buy them. Some figured Moabi, Etimoe, Ovangkol etc.









And some Ebony Fingerboards, Macassar and African:

Some quarter-sawn neck blanks for bolt-on electric guitars. Nice bright, clean European Mountain Maple.







And some really nice quarter-sawn 8/4 inches thick boards of Malus Sylvestris / European Crab Apple for back and side sets, and a Les Paul Top.

This week I worked on log number 40185, European Mountain Maple, Acer Pseudoplatanus.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1157931855 ... 1307/40185

Cheers, Alex

Two sets figured european maple, also from log 40185

Good looking stuff!

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Today I resawed something which I can not identify for 100%. Might be figured Moabi or Makore or something totally different. Can anybody help?

The color and figure is enhanced with some water. The surface cut quality is quite rough, because I ran out of fresh blades. So I used a resharpened Woodmaster CT, which is not as good as I was hoping.

Cheers, Alex

Looks like imbuia. Does it have a spicy sweet smell? Almost sweet and kind of peppery?

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Hello Aron Hix, thank you very much for your help again. But I resaw Imbuia not so long ago, which I could identify for sure, btw with your help!

This wood is different, harder, denser, I even would say it has a waxy surface. No distinctive smell at all. For sure also no Bubinga.

Cheers, alex

Preparing a batch of new backs in different wood species. Planing flat surfaces and thicknessing before resawing at the bandsaw:

Is that lignum?

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Pat

Which pile do you mean, pat?

The green one 4th from the right.

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Pat

No, that is Ovangkol...you may also guess the others....

Hi Alex.
Ok, dumb question: I have not found your website. Can you post a link?
Dan

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Hello Dan,

here is the homepage where I earn my money with :

http://www.mehling-wiesmann.de/index.ph ... chpartner/

and here is the homepage where I spend it again

https://picasaweb.google.com/115793185519493121307


This evening preparing again a new batch of backs. First planing one surface, then cleaning the edge, then planing to final thickness before resawing. This means the whole weekend working with the joiner and planer, next week start resawing.



Also had a friend visiting me late at the evening and introducing me to his new girlfriend...you can see their feet at the upper part of the picture

Cheers, Alex

Thanks Alex, amazing pictures!
The salmon colored Strat is uber-cool!

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Hello Folks,

Since I assume some of you still like to just look at wood, I dig this zombie thread out again.
Life had changed and I had to go slowly on the whole woodworking and resawing thing.

BUT....now I am back...so to say...

Anyhow, let’s start with some European Mountain Maple for Les Pauls

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kqSP76sS38xpscgS6



And here we go with some Stevensonii. Yes there are worm holes, and I love every single one of them, bricole somehow....

https://photos.app.goo.gl/8pe5g1HziHCAtzYA7



And some heavy figured wood from your side of the pond...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/99iQW6SLAT6dKZUJ7

And I always enjoy the photos. Nice wood!

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Yeah that's some nice stuff. Love that oak and some of the patterns in those LEs Paul tops are crazy. I also like worm holes too.

Glad to see you back Alex!

I've always enjoyed your pics of wood pornography, but you are German ...

Please post some more. I need inspiration to fire up my bandsaw and make some dust.

Kevin Looker

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Hello folks,

A new batch in production. This time sets for acoustic guitars, some maple tops for Les Pauls and some drop tops in 10mm, figured maple neck blanks, finger boards and lots of saw dust....not yet finished, but soon I will post some pictures of the results.

When changing the blade I noticed that the rubber on the tires of the bandsaw needed some work again. So I used a small jig for sanding the rubber into a perfect circle again. Time consuming, but sometimes necessary when you want perfect resaw performance.

I still chose the Lenox Woodmaster CT over the Resaw King, but I am tempting to sent my Resaw King Blade back to the manufacturing company and have it resharpend again and give it another try.

These sets nearly all come out of backing board from veneer production. Expensive logs and wood, but nice figured, unique material and perfect vertical grained ...... a pleasure to work with.

Cheers, Alex

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HaQqVQw28miSHMfo6

In the U.S. there are places that will resharpen Lenox CT blades. Cascade Carbide in Eugene Oregon is one. I send them my 183" long Ct blades. If I send a half a dozen blades at a time, it really saves on shipping. It's been awhile because I have kind of switched back to using new blades, but when I got resharpening done it was around $50.00 each, including the shipping. If I buy my new blades in bilk, the price comes down from nearly $200.00 to around $140.00, so the the cost per set is not that much even using new blades. Since I sell some sets, a single figured uke set will buy a new blade or a single figured guitar set buys several. Cheap blades when you look at it that way. I was unable to open any of the photos from the German poster, but his yield per blade sounds amazing. I don't get nearly that much on a blade, Still great blades. They don't cut quite as smooth as the Lenox variable tooth model, but that blade has a short life.--Bob

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Hello Bob, thank you for your comment. The pictures should be visible now, I just forgot to make them visible for the public, sorry! My Lenox is 197” long and I buy them from a German company and they get it from the European Lenox head quarter in the Netherlands. They are about 170€, once I bought 5 at a time and I also got a little bit discount.

At my work ( I am earning my money for that hobby in a sawmill and veneermill) we are running a bandsaw with about 433” blade length powered with a 75KW motor, and we sharpen the blades ourself. So I went to my colleagues in the sharpening room and asked if they could resharpen the CT....of course they said! But I have to admit I am not happy with the result, and especially these resharpend CT do not last long anymore. The quality of the cut is ok, at the beginning, but after not many cuts, I am loosing too much time and wood due to poor performance.

I also do not know what is going on there, but till now I have not found somebody else how can give them a second life.

I even was so unpolite and asked Mr. Kohlbacher if he could resharpen them. Mr. Kohlbacher is Running a Company in South Germany, and he is the producer of the Resaw King Blades. He is not only making the coils and sharpening them, he is building the CNC sharpening machines himself....but he refused to try to sharpen the Lenox, and told me it would not be possible...
Of course I can understand and respect his answer.....

Anyhow....time to make some wood dust....

Guten tag herr dalbergia . I bought a used Laguna 20 in BS 2 yrs ago , and used the woodmaster ct. But it broke twice on me at seperate times and was rewelded. I have the resaw king, but not used it yet . Saving it for resawing uber expensive hdwds like old pernambuco and ebony, I did not reorder the woodmaster ct . Instead I get regular 1/2 carbon steel blades 1.1/4in w or abt 32mm from Edge manufacturing in Pevely MO. usa . They are very reasonably priced and will resaw most of my domestic hdwds. at a fraction of the price of my woodmaster ct . I have retrofitted the laguna with a 5 hp leeson motor. Thanks for sharing all that wood porn . Wunderbar!