{"id":9,"date":"2013-05-24T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canoe.mykos.org\/?p=9"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:36:28","slug":"milling-the-cedar-planks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Milling the cedar planks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the log that will become my canoe.<\/address>\n
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The first step in building the canoe is turning a cedar log into planks. The final strips will be 1 inch high by 3\/16″ thick. Those strips will be ripped out of planks 1″ thick which will be cut out of the log on the sawmill. The wood is still green at this point so the planks will need to be put aside to dry before it can be ripped down on the table saw into strips.<\/p>\n

The sawmill at the farm is a Mobile Dimension Model 128 from the early 80’s. It has a main blade 30″ in diameter that can make a vertical cut up to 12″ deep and two edger blades that make horizontal cuts up to 4″ wide. You can put on wider edger blades to make bigger horizontal cuts, but ours is pretty much always set up with the 4″ edgers. The log is put into the cradle and held in place with spring loaded steel dogs on rails and the saw moves down a track to make each board. So with the blades set up as they are you can make up to a 4×12 piece of lumber in one cut.<\/p>\n

Most of the time we cut all our boards vertically. So a log that was 15″ in diameter we could get two rows of 1×6’s (the bottom 3″ is lost because it’s pinned in the dogs), or one row of 1×12’s.<\/p>\n

The planks I’ve made are 4″ wide since that’s the width that the edger blade on the sawmill can cut in one pass. Wider boards would make less waste (in the form of sawdust), but by using the edger to cut some of the planks width wise I can choose the grain orientation better. I want to make the strips for the canoe mostly flat-grain in orientation so I need the planks to be edge-grain cut. That is to say the grain would be perpendicular to the board so that when the board is ripped into strips the grain will be parallel to the strips.<\/p>\n

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This board is one of the four that will have perfectly aligned grain for making flat grain strips.<\/address>\n
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The log I chose is 16″ in diameter. Once the waste cuts are trimmed off the sides it gave 3 rows of 1×4’s. The top and bottom rows were cut vertically while the middle row was cut horizontally. This gives me four boards that have the grain perfectly perpendicular to the width, and eight boards that are pretty close. When I rip the planks into strips those ones will get put aside for doing the hull above the waterline where it’s most visible.<\/p>\n

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The final stack of boards that are going to become my canoe.<\/address>\n
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These boards are going to have to dry out quite a bit before they’ll rip nicely on the table saw. They’ll go down to the back of the wood shop where they’ll be left alone for awhile before I get back to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the log that will become my canoe. \u00a0 The first step in building the canoe is turning a cedar log into planks. The final strips will be 1 inch high by 3\/16″ thick. Those strips will be ripped out of planks 1″ thick which will be cut out of the log on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huron-cruiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}