Tooling (was Cedar Strips)

[Bill Green <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

For those of you who are milling your own strips, how many of you are using a band saw and how many are using a table saw? It never dawned on me that you could use a table saw for this because of the amount of saw dust (i.e. wasted wood) generated each cut -- even with a 3/32 blade, so I had included a band saw in my cost of building a Swift sheet (along with the recommended sander, planer, router and table and dust collector), but if I can pull it out that would be great.

Thanks,
Bill Green

On May 18, 2005, at 11:15 AM, BDally6107@xxxxxxx wrote:

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> Michael,
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> In the Seattle area you can buy enough clear cedar 1x4 14' long corner boards (smooth on 1 side and 2 edges--used primarily on houses) to build a Swift for under $300.  You can buy them at Lowes or any of our local lumber stores (you do have to pick through it for flat surface grain so that it will be vertical grain when you slice it into 1/4" strips).  Also, you do have to run them through a thickness planner to smooth the remaining side.  If I try to buy cedar from a marine lumber outlet, the price is $800.  Both 001 and 002 were built with lumber bought at the local hardware/lumber outlets (for houses).
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> Cutting and routing the bead and cove on the strips will take a couple of days.  In markets where WR cedar is not readily available you will likely pay a big premium and purchasing the strips would per the best route to go.
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> I hope this helps,
>  
> Bram