Full kerf or thin kerf

[Leon]

Basically, a majority of the time a thin kerf blade saves enough wood to insure that the scrap you throw away is a little larger.

[James "Cubby" Culbertson]

If you're really after saving $$ on wood by using a thin kerf, then you should really take the next step and use a bandsaw.

[Edwin Pawlowski]

That's for sissies. Really frugal man would split the wood with his pen knife and have no waste.

[Puckdropper]

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in news:Qguxg.4648$qZ2.1502@trndny01:

You still have the waste from finishing the edge. If you're really trying to conserve wood, have it laser cut.

Puckdropper

[Mike Marlow]

And if he were really frugal, he would have turned down that pen knife on his lathe from scraps.

[lwasserm]

I may have missed it, but so far I haven't seen any mention my favorite reason for a regular kerf blade: 1/8" is SO much easier to work with than 7/32!

YMMV :)

[Upscale]

7/32"? That's almost a quarter of an inch. Never seen any blades that wide, at least not in the home setting.

[Leon]

Hey who uses a dado to make rips and cross cuts? "~)

[Owen Lawrence]

The lathe that he also built from scraps:

- Owen -

[CW]

Thanks for the pointer. Been meaning to buy these books for years. Bought both the lathe and milling machine book.

[lwasserm]

OOPS! Sorry. Of coursce I meant 3/32! (Told you 1/8 is easier to work with...)

[J. Clarke]

????? Where do you live that finding a 2x4 is an "adventure"?

Ply, no, MDF, yes. And some projects use two pieces of ply bonded together--with those it's easier to rough cut, bond, and finish cut than to cut two identical pieces.

[charlie b]

????? Where do you live that finding a 2x4 is an "adventure"?

I'm not talking about doug fir if you're west of the Mississipi or Lodge Pole Pine or southern yellow pine.

Around here, finding 2x2s - in maple, or mahogany or ash, or even oak, let alone padouk or teak - IS an adventure. There are places you can order it - sight unseen - and wait three or four months for a container to arrive from god knows where to actually have it in hand. I don't plan that far ahead - though I do pick up stuff I don't "need" right now - if the opportunity presents itself. 10/4 and 12/4 claro walnut slabs - some of it crotch - for $40 to $50 apiece is something I can't pass up. A Bartlett Pear log - en buole for $200 now sits under a loose tarp on my driveway - off the ground on stickers of course.

Now redwood - we got shitloads of the stuff here in NorCal. some of it is absolutely gorgeous - but soft. Pity - some of it has figure which will take your breath away.

Nice to know an arborist who is also a sawyer AND a furniture maker. Once again - Thank You Blair!

charlie b

[J. Clarke]

How about Sitka spruce?

Just the fact that you refer to it as a 2x2 tells me that you really need to find a hardwood lumber yard. 8/4 maple, mahogany, and oak are quite common.

Now that is something that is virtually unobtainable here. Ipe we got out the ying-yang, but redwood . . .