lurker coming out... my rig

[sawmiller]

hi all,
been lurkin' for a while , and decided to post
i've made a router table thats a mishmash of all i've seen here and what i could get locally.
i'll try to post pics in the following post

using a rotozip 30,000 rpm ( neeed to slow it down)
my guides cost $70 from a junkyard ( wish they were longer )
steppers are 126 oz/in from deepgroove
drivers are from PMinmo ( great guy)
registered mach 3 ( planning on building better machines)
using allthread with the long nuts you can get for them, (need to change this.)
and 3 computer power supplys hooked together to give me 29 volts ( max the A3977 can take is 35 volts)
anyways i have 25 IPM, cutting at 12ipm , not bad for a first machine..
dan
ps heres a test pic

[sawmiller]

heres those pictures... the test pic was taken of my front yard here in TN
the table area i can cut is 12"x12"
i've got the plywood stacked so i can take some away if i have taller stuff to cut.
i'll take a breather now, and then probally use this one to make a jgro router... just wish those guides were longer, they are sweet...
btw.. i have a woodmiser sawmill and 60 acres of woods, so getting wood to cut is not a problem...
just cant make plywood yet
dan

[ImanCarrot]

Now THAT is what I call resourceful.. making your own actual wood! sweet man

[thkoutsidthebox]

Congrats on your first build, looks great. I'd love to see a picture of your sawmill....

[sawmiller]

sure.. dont look like much, but its paid for itself many times over
dan

[martinw]

Originally Posted by sawmiller sure.. dont look like much dan

Dear Dan,

That looks like Heaven to me.

Best Wishes,

Martin

[thkoutsidthebox]

Originally Posted by sawmiller sure.. dont look like much, but its paid for itself many times over dan

Very nice. Wish I had my own sawmill, timber here is sooo expensive, but mainly because we import nearly everything. A bad thing about being a little island in t'atlantic. And a lot of our native hardwood forests are long gone, cut down hundreds of years ago....

[sawmiller]

i look around me, and a lot of the woods have been clearcut or all the good trees taken, mostly red oaks and white in this area. I feel that we, at least in this area are going the same way.
most of the time the loggers are just interested in the 2-3 cuts off the main trunk, whereas the ones i get i try to use it all, down to cutting the tops for pallet stock ( 4x6, 6x6)
if you go into lowes or other box stores and look at a red oak board, it might be $50 for a lil 12" by 6 foot.. my best prices when i sell are $1 per boardfoot
just dont know where the difference is.
i'm found that red maple is a excellent wood to machine on mill, with aromatic red cedar not far behind.. but red or white oak, small bits want to follow the grain. will have to try out some popular and walnut. only have blowdowns for walnut thou.
dan

[randyf1965]

Years ago my father bought a truckload of sawmill scraps for something like $50 mixed bunch of wood pines, oaks, walnut... must have built $2000+ worth of rustic birdhouses... and that was without a cnc machine *gasp*

[Kipper]

Originally Posted by randyf1965 Years ago my father bought a truckload of sawmill scraps for something like $50 mixed bunch of wood pines, oaks, walnut... must have built $2000+ worth of rustic birdhouses... and that was without a cnc machine *gasp*

Can you imagine life without one Nice looking place sawmiller

[ImanCarrot]

That is awesome! I've always wanted a sawmill, think of all the things you could make! you could make anything!

How do you season the wood please?

[sawmiller]

start with cement blocks and 4x4's to make a platform 1 foot off the ground, supported every 4 foot, then horizontal green (fresh) boards,laid down 1 finger apart for air flow, then a layer of dried 1"x1" x4' stacking sticks 2 foot apart perpendicular, then another layer of green, then a layer of sticks so on and so forth, just keep the sticks centered over each other... let dry for a year/inch thick if outside gets down to 12% locally.
dan
ps back on subject.... who's got the best cnc plan for like a 4 foot x 4 foot area ? or a 2 foot wide that you can pass thru ? i'd like to turn this cnc rig into something that i can make some large signs with.
thanks
dan