All About Quarter Sawing: Sycamore Lumber For Flooring!
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The mountains and hills in the background are beautiful , my favorite time of year .
I learn something new every day watching you guys---thank you!!
What a banger of a video & you ladies have the job waxed. Top job on that log. Thankyou for sharing
I clicked on this to learn a little more, but she took my attention completely.
There needs to be more woman like this in this world! Very impressed by the knowledge and skills. Cheers from texas
I was a logger in SC for a few years. Cottonwood and Sycamore were the only species the mills did not want logs cut from. We put any that would fit into our chipper for making paper (20” and under). The rest we cut to lengths for RR ties. I never understand why cuz the sycamore seemed like such a pretty wood.
I'm a 70 year old man worked in the furniture for 37 years. You are so correct on everything. I'm so glad to see people still learning. You need to put that hair into a honeytail. Maybe 10 of them. I don't know. Don't be unsafe.
Totally agree - if machinery caught that beautiful hair…
Nice Job Emerald and Jade. Awesome tutorial on Quarter Sawing!!
I've spent a bit of time helping out people with small.mills and never really understood 1/4 sawing until I saw this. Thanks.
Hi, I'm just now seeing you for THE '1'st time. and wow I say you are, you've given me a whole new attitude about wood working w/these ole callus hands.
Beautiful milling guys! Thanks so much for sharing. Blessings!
Thanks!
Love watching you Em! So beautiful, smart and hardworking! God bless
UA-cam is amazing! From advanced fractions in calculus to quarter sawing now. How did it know i needed to know this for my calculis test!
Great video! Great explanation! You ladies are great to watch.
Cheers from London 👍🏴
Alright...I learned from you again today. Nothing like getting schooled by a young one. At least you're easy on the eyes. You and Jade are lumber one in my books. Lol! Thanks for the video Em!
quarter sawn oak and maple is really beautiful!
Great video. I enjoyed that. Thanks!
I really like your saw. A local mill has an old lt40 super (electric). It has been extensively modified over the years. The sawyer can really put out the volume of wood. He saws almost exclusively black walnut. I have a simply manually operated home built machine. It works fine for my application and I also didn't have to spend the big bucks to buy it. I use it for building maintenance purposes. I have a hardwood framed building. I want to keep all of the wood hardwood if possible. I enjoy watching your milling videos. I always learn something new watching them.
You’re a very intelligent in wood wisdom. You’re a very dynamic individual. Bravo 🙌
did a house that was all done in quarter sawn white oak, was a beautiful project once we finished...they had entire rooms with panel systems with dime joints for the walls, t&G ceilings with beams, the whole nine yards... probably wont ever get a chance to do a house like ever again...the material alone before milling and finishing was well over a million dollars...
Great Job ladies! That quarter sawn lumber really makes some beautiful projects! Thanks for sharing your day with us, an have a great night!
Great overview of quater-sawn lumber. Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
You sister Jade. Is doing
A great Job of filming
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Great work
Didn't know any good use of Sycamore wood! Learned something new! Thanks! 😊 You taught me!
I used to make Cigar Humidors from quarter sawn “snakeskin” sycamore. You can’t cheat the process of quartering lumber. Unfortunately because you’re running a horizontal mill you have to cut from the bottom. However a vertical turndown mill cuts on the side and for the most part away from dogs etc. The safest way on a bandsaw is to have a 2X board always on the deck and pevee the log after each cut. Great video ❤
Sycamore trees give off a nice smell, one of the many things to enjoy while drivimg down through Sinnemahoning. That is an impressive amount of lumber. Nice work Girls!
I did not know that Sycamore was good for furniture. I have never seen a piece made from it. Good stuff
One of the best explanation/demos of the quarter sawn process i have seen. Thanks!
Hi Em. How are ya? Sycamore is a pretty wood.
The way I quarter saw is a lil different. I level the pith then cut slightly above it pull off the top half, cut through the pith the thickness I want. Each side of the pith is quarter sawn. Now I have 2 almost halves. I put them together and cut through the middle now have 4 quarters. Now I put a 2inch board down start cutting off the bottom of the quarters. The quarter sawn boards slowly shrink in width but are quarter sawn. The last couple are rift sawn still look good when seen from the side. Thanks as always for sharing. God bless you and the family.
1st time watching
What a beautiful specimen of a female !!!!!
The whole purpose of milling quarter sawn lumber is to highlight the medullary rays in woods like sycamore and white oak. If I had been cutting those logs, I would have taken a slab on either side of the pith first and then cut the other parts into quarter sections. One thing about sycamore is that it has an extremely high water content, which is why it is so heavy when green, and very light when dry. I would consider it too soft for flooring.
I'm impressed. Didn't know how this was done. Thanks for showing
You never know when you are going to learn something new. Thanks.
Nice work and info! I appreciate your talking about safety as well. Safety first! 😊
When this notification came in I was glued to the story by Buckn' Billy Ray titled The Day I Almost Died In The Bush. Wood is good. It's been good to me. Thanks for your channel. 🌄
Sycamore is not used for much in my area. Tie logs and can't. I cut a tract I haul 5 logs on a load that weight was almost 50 tons. You would have been happy.
what a cool girl! keep cuttin' them logs sister! seems like a fun job
Soothing, entertaining, calming, Informative, NO drama. Love you girls. I think I'm hooked. Had to watch twice.
Once again, the dynamic duo handles that big log easily with ease milling it into 4. I don't think there is anything the dynamic duo can't do. Another great vid Emerald and Jade.
Yeah she really handles wood the proper way
Great operation there. Very good explanation of your goals. You know your stuff. I don’t know much about milling. My son-in-law makes good things from the boards he cuts from logs. I cut firewood and make spoons, spatulas, and some Kuksas. Thanks and take care.
I love watching your content. I always learn. And i like your style. You keep it real.
Your hair looks amazing,your matching with fall Mountain side. Never saw sycamore lumber,thanks for opening my eyes
I really enjoyed your video. You guys are doing a great job and I hope my daughter, and son, have the interest in working with me. I believe that is the part about your video's that I enjoy the most. Great job. Keep it up.
Best how to quarter saw video i have seen.
I wish my kids had your work ethic.👍
Emerald, thank you for the nice explanation of quarter sawn! Nice work ladies and the finished stack looks productive, too. There will be a happy customer.
The view of the hill and its colours are amazing. The content of the vid is also great!
I'm so blessed to see a young lady who is not only very educated in her field but seems to be a very good person as well. My son is 30 years old and seems to only meet women who are apsolute train wrecks with a lot of baggage. Trying to appeal to the masses on social media is a fast track to a bitter wasted life and your proof it doesn't have to be!
This is the first video of yours I've seen. I think I'm hooked.
An Unappreciated species, for sure, fantastic ray patterns. We used to market sycamore timber for flooring (40 yes ago) and it made the heaviest logs I have ever seen coming out of the East Texas woods.
Sycamore is not a species I usually see marketed for flooring, but I think it used find use as railroad ties due to being so tough and fibrous. Today, I believe paper pulp and fire wood are it's main use, though often the trees are large, rotten and grow in bottoms which are not often harvested. It's nice to see something like floors being made from it.
nightmare to split!! not great firewood but looks great quartersawn!
Good job, as per usual. Lumber Cap. is rockin' 🤘👍☺️
Quartersawn sycamore is one of my favorite woods for knife scales. It makes very distinctive grain patterns. The color of the heartwood pieces is awesome with just a boiled linseed oil finish. Now get busy and cut me some more.
This quarter sawn is totally unknown here in Germany...
So I have made a video about it ..
I like Ur videos, my favourite are when Ur dad explain something.
Really interesting.
Greetings Wolfgang
If you want to see quarter sawn lumber for furniture at its finest, do a search for Gustav Stickly. His signature pieces are done in quarter sawn white oak. Quarter sawing reveals the “rays” in the grain of white oak (and some others). You’ll recognize it when you see it in pictures of his work. There is an ongoing Stickly movement that keeps his style alive to this day.
Thanks for the comment. Boss Man.
@@joeromanak8797 I have done quarter sawn for my master piece.
But I will research Gustav.
Thanks for the name.
@@joeromanak8797 like I said, I have made a video about it, but in German.
I thought nobody will see it....wrong.
So many people called me, crazy.
In my video I explained 3 method's to produce quarter sawn.
I have looked up Gustav, I like what he have done.
But my style is Bauhaus.1915-1930.
CADA VIDEO ES UNA NUEVA CLASE DE "COMO HACER LAS COSAS BIEN" ,GRACIAS POR SU GENEROSA VOLUNTAD DE ENSEÑAR - EACH VIDEO IS A NEW CLASS OF 'HOW TO DO THINGS RIGHT', THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS WILLINGNESS TO TEACH
Very relaxing seeing lumber handled so swiftly.
Love your channel. Nice tutorial on quarter sawn lumber.
Hello everyone outstanding as always fresh cut logs I can’t stay away the smell is unbelievable
Nice wood, nice video. However, I'd suggest that the reason folks want quarter sawn is not that quarter sawn is stronger or anything, (it isn't) but that it is more dimensionally stable. That is, it doesn't cup or warp as easily as flat sawn, AND it doesn't shrink and expand as much as flat sawn. Of course the figure is usually much nicer too. But, as you said, it is much more labor to quarter saw wood. Besides flat sawn, of course there is Rift sawn, usually even more expensive.
Normally in quarter sawing, (at least in the method you are doing) one cuts the bottom board as you had it laying once quartered, then flip it to the other flat, and cut that one, then back to the original flat and so on. You would get more quarter sawn boards and total Bd ft, doing it that way.
If I were a flooring craftsman and received that stock of lumber quarter sawn the way you described it (lots of different board widths) would I then have to decide the width of my strips of flooring or would it be more likely you make that decision at the mill after it’s been dried?
Great tutorial on quarter sawn and rift cut lumber that was easy to understand.
I'm a retired cabinetmaker (35 years in the industry) and love it when you cut up hardwood. 1\4 cut lumber is definitely lovely and at times the extra strength is a tremendous benefit.
I planted a sycamore by my shop in Eastern Ontario this summer, well north of its range, so I was delighted to see one quarter sawn. It looks like good wood.
Here in the states down south I love sycamore its a beautiful tree with fantastic leaves that cool ya by the creek in the summer heat 😎 but it's a hated wood for the most of it. None to twist warp bow all the bad stuff but I have heard that it gives a nice ray effect when quarter sawn.. I have a few I think im gonna mill one see for myself...
I love the beauty of quarter sawn lumber. I have done a lot of wood working over the years and have a lot respect for the milling process, great video.
You are both becoming more valuable to the operation every day. Wear it with pride.
First time watching well done ladies.
Great fall colors on the hill across the road,
It's good to see a kind face! Thanks for sharing! ☺️🌎💖☀️
Okay, ladies, you blew me away with your expertise. I learned more here in your one video than I did in my wood shop class in high school eons ago! Nice job! Thank you for teaching me!
Bought some Sycamore unfinished milled flooring from a local lumber yard my brother in law works for. Took my time finishing it after I installed it. Came out really nice, looks similar to white maple.
Awesome video and family ❤👍🏼🇺🇸❤️🌹
Thank you ladies, now I know ❤
Delightful and interesting. I will never look at flooring the same way again! (seriously).
You all are great! Know your business. The “Boss” and your Mom are very special and must be very proud of each of you. Phil
Another amazing video of the two hardworking ladies, great video
Great job Emerald! 👏 👍 👌
Awesomeness Truespeak Thank You For All You Do LCLY Style 🌲🔥🇺🇸🆙
You just plain sawed a quarter of the log at a time! You have to take off the bottom and turn the quarter after each cut to get the gain to be quarter sawn. By not turning the log at all what’s the difference of cutting it into quarters and putting those quarters back together and just plain sawing. Check end grain picture of how to quarter saw to see what I mean.
Another example of quartersawing process:
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You have got a point. Btw. the German word for quarter sawn would translate to "radially sawn" which makes more sense in my opinion. By turning the log after every cut, you'd have radius-like boards, all of them being maximally quarter sawn, if that makes sense.
Maybe increasing yield (profit) is the reason to do it that way she describes it.
The center borads are technically quarter sawn. She explained that in the video.
Couldn't you get a couple of small planks out of the first two cuts, surely you don't just scrap that full piece offcuts.
If we could get your dad to quote a passage every day, that would be incredible 🙏🏼
"Log!" I am your logger. (Star Wars) Nice work where the sawyer gets very up close with the wood.
Very interesting video Emerald, it would be neat to see the wood after final milling,
Very interesting video. In the UK sycamore was used for dairy utensils as it does not absorb the milk and it was easy to clean. Well done Em and Jade.
With as much time, labor, and equipment needed to make those fine cuts, I reckon the price for such service is 100% justified. (: And that's once the harvested wood is on site. There's a lot of work involved. I personally would like to drive a giant Pacific truck through the woods 'cause the rumble of diesels. (:
Seeing that machine working, I almost expected it to make you a coffee! So impressive how little waste was involved. Great work.
Hi from Deep South Texas. Looking so lovely Emerald❤
Holy crap dude… that landscape is ridiculously beautiful! I’m from FL which is the flattest state, I’ve never even seen a mountain like that, much less something so colorful and gorgeous.
Dude… I need to travel the states a bit. Sheesh. Florida is a boring swamp compared to places like that!
I think I'm in love, I came from 4 generations of loggers, my Pa and Ma started with a team of mules, cut the lumber by hand until Pa got his first sawmill, then bought another after which he opened his own lumber company and started building house's, subdivisions on his farm.
Great job , you ladies amaze me be safe
Excellent video. Woodmizer has sure come a long way.
I have an oak pitcher table I found in my great grandparents house 50 years ago that I rebuilt about 15 years ago. The wood is quarter sawn and I love the way it looks! It sits by my front door to catch purses and helmets.
I have always wanted to see what Sycamore would look like especially quarter sawn, great video Emerald.
If you are nervous about hitting table , place a piece of straight scrap under log to raise your quarter sawn above bed.
Thanks, I didn't know what quarter sawing was and now I do. Plus I'm thinking qut means quarter. Once again thanks.
Peace and Ahev
You ladies are awesome, I didn't know a thing about 1/4 sawn logs at the beginning and learned a ton from this video, thank yall for making it. Will definitely come back to learn more. Totally awesome.
Beautiful, nice work!
Great video! Quarter-sawn Sycamore can be used for guitar fretboards, and it can also be used as tone woods (the back and sides) and for tops but the firs like Sitka are preferred more for tops. Once again, it's great to hear the sound of guitars playing when quarter sawing sycamore!
Yes, especialy in combination with mahogany.
First think at the begining of the video: "May be they wants to build an electric guitar?" :)
Nice to know Ed. Do you build as well as play guitar?
@@lcmmassa8571 I don't build guitars, I play. I really prefer finely crafted custom-made instruments rather than big-name factory builds. I have a custom-made 12-string, built by the late John Zeidler in 1984, you can see it on my channel.
Sitka spruce (it's not a fir) is great for tops
Tenor Ukulele with Sycamore back and sides...
Very informative video I must of missed this one glad I caught it 🎉🤙🤙🤙😎 , Always enjoy ‘em see you next vid. Luv y’all
I really enjoyed this video, that was a lot of wood from one tree.
99 percent of people will have no idea about quarter sawn timber. these are things joiners were taught back in the day. love the mill. nice piece of kit.
In my opinion, mastering quarter sawing is the crown jewel of lumber milling. And with sycamore, if it's not quarter sawn, it's just lousy firewood. Quarter sawing is not easy and is very time consuming but done correctly the value added to a log makes it worthwhile. There are several ways to quarter saw on a band mill, each having it's pros and cons. But the goal is to end up with the most QS boards. Unfortunately by taking the easiest approach you've ended up with (by my guess) maybe 15% QS. Cutting valuable hardwood is different than cutting hemlock. Wether quartering or grade sawing, if your boards are all the same width in the end, you're not getting the most "value added" from your log. There are many sources online for this including Wood Mizer that could help improve your yield and add to your bottom line.
It's a heck of a learning curve this business we're in. But you folks have learned fast and continue to improve daily. It's great to see what the next generation can do to advance this industry.
Keep up the good work and be safe.
Much respect and thank you.
Nice! When my cousins logged my grandma’s 5 years ago, some sycamore that was in the 5’ plus dbh range hit the ground