hello just wondering if anyone knows if the crown timber yard is open and taking orders. thanks,terry
the saw is a quality tool, however before you drop $450.00 + shipping+ tax you may want to think about how much you really need it. Consider you still need a bigger saw to resawn lumber down to the size a small table saw can handle. If you are buying lumber on line you are paying for shipping and you loose about 1/3rd or more in saw dust so your paying for saw dust you never actually use. If you do not have a larger saw to rip down lumber you have to purchase resawn sheet stock.
lets say you want strips of Beech and order 5 board feet of rough Beech lumber there is no way that little saw will rip that down into modeling planks. so you have to purchase sheet stock like 2 x 24 x 1/4 or 1/8 or whatever thickness if you don't have a bigger saw to handle the lumber. So if you have to go that far might as well just buy finished planking stock.
Agree, buy a Bynes table saw and cut your own planks. It will pay dividends for you long term.
Brian is right in the long run it will pay off as long as you have a cheap local source or resawn wood and you plan on cutting a lot of it and you don't mind spending the time doing it.
A permanent solution to your problem is to cut your own. Get a Byrnes saw.Nope, they closed their doors in 2019 and he sold off his existing stock. If you are looking for planking strips I think The Lumberyard is the only stateside resource, there are a few places in Europe that do stripwood... Time to look at getting a Byrnes Saw?
Like Dave posted, that one saw (Byrnes) isn't going to handle 4/4, 6/4 or larger stock. It's a 4" blade. It says it can handle 15/16" max but I bet the horsepower isn't up to a steady diet of that stuff. I have a woodshop and have been doing woodwork for about 60 years. I save a lot of money buying rough stock andmill it myself. Getting stock down to sizes, typically in millimeters is going to take more machinery unless you buy your wood in MUCH smaller sizes. Resawing? Think bandsaw. Smoothing? Planer and jointer. Hey! It's only money.A permanent solution to your problem is to cut your own. Get a Byrnes saw.
hi dave, do you cut and sand wood strips[1/16x1/4x36]? if so i need some. let me know about the wood strips. thanks terry
I too am retired. A lot of my woodshop was purchased years ago. Everything I bought serves a purpose. Model building, for me sometimes calls for other tooling and techniques. I also build big stuff.Yes, of course the more power tools you have, things would be easier.
But with the respect of all of my fellow modelers, and this is only my humble opinion; now that I’m retired I think a lot before buying because our hobby could entice us to buy things that are not completely necessary and we we can easily fall in the “Diderot effect”.
Here is a link that explains what I mean.
The Diderot Effect: Why We Want Things We Don’t Need
The Diderot Effect helps explain why we buy things we don't need.jamesclear.com