My first Saw Mill experience <<PICS>>

[Jeff Sudmeier]

Welcome to a whole new aspect of woodworking! I sure love working with rough lumber!

It is great to see the peice come to life as you plane it down.

[lou sansone]

moisture meter = mini-lingo with the pins... works great for me!

and as others have said, with pine you have to set the pitch using some form of kiln process. I never work with pine so it is not a problem. I use poplar and aspen for my light secondary woods
lou

[Keith Christopher]

Jeff, I hate to throw more infomation at you than you may want to digest at once, but, the problem with air dried pine is that the pitch never really sets hard and may always remain sticky. I seldom work with pine and never work with air dried pine so I do not speak with first hand experience but maybe others can add to this infomation for you.

Richard

Yeah I don't work with pine much. But MAN I love cutting mortises in it ! Or planing it or the way it glides through the TS. Much easier ripping pine than Lyptus. LOL. Yeah it does gum up the blades awful bad. I use to have a set of CC and RIP blades just for pine but I scrapped that and the pine. I'll take poplar over pine personally.


Keith