Loglogic autotrex

[agg221]

ooohhh there no imagination there...

 

yes table tops are the obvious answer but there are plenty of other uses when you think of it. public benches, solid doors, worktops, banqueting tables, solid leg ends, coffins and chair seats.

 

the other use is that you get the best out of them for ripping down to smaller boards giving furniture makers the luxury of picking and choosing rather than getting what is given at the lumber yard.

 

I could do you some of the second bit of this lot if you want - 6' wide enough?

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/woodcraft-forum/68851-oak-available-milled-your-spec.html

 

Alec

[treequip]

I have plenty of imagination mate.............

 

What I am saying is you wouldn't use a 4'4" (that is what the autotrex cuts) wide board in one piece as the movement over time and lack of stability would be too great. I wouldn't personally use much over 16" wide in one piece otherwise you are asking for movement and defects in the future.

 

Your average mill will cut what, 28"?? That is more than adequate for board width. Yeh if is was an outside table then movement is not so much of an issue but a banqueting table?? And what is a solid door? your joking right?

 

I have been a furniture maker for 15 years and do like nice wide boards but anything over 28" might as well have been ripped down as they are a pain in the a**e to dry flat and to handle and will have shakes defects running through them somewhere.

 

Thats all from my perspective though..........

 

 

Well you might not want a wide board but if you have a big saw you can rip a big stem down to quarters and saw them.