So I guess the lesson is "Good things take time".
I had one job where we were working for an architect, it was Snohomish. The guy fancied himself as a FLW prodigy or something. He had this soffit detail of Cedar "beams". They dropped (60) 2x8x14 Clear VG Cedar in my yard and I proceeded to cut them up into 42" lengths and then rip tapers out of them. It was an awful feeling doing that.
I had one job where we were working for an architect, it was Snohomish.(a wet place) The guy fancied himself as a FLW (Frank Lloyd Wright)prodigy or something. He had this soffit detail of Cedar "beams". They dropped (60) 2x8x14 Clear VG (vertical grain/quarter sawn)Cedar in my yard and I proceeded to cut them up into 42" lengths and then rip tapers out of them. It was an awful feeling doing that.
Pretty close anyway....:laughing:Whats all that mean?:sad:
It seems to me that they would flat saw everything. Imagine how big the logs were, you would still get quite a bit of VG out of a whole log.
Looking at old wid plank flooring, and wide old trim boards in the same houses, one can almost see how the whole log went together/came apart.
With big logs, that was usually
the strategy.
Somewhere I've got charts of
how they quarter sawed whole logs.
Lots of waste.