Jig's I plan to use for oak



Jigs




  Oak is to heavy to rotate or move so I need two jigs to cut quarter sawn borads one for 
  vertical cuts and one for horizontal cuts. So on the first picture you can see the jig I made 
  with two longer peaces  of l-profile steel conected with four smaller peaces. Another
  smaller steel peace is holding the saw attached to the jig with two large bolts. This jig will
  glide on the borad 5cmx10cm (2" by 4") which will be attached to the log. Everything is 
  welded and looks and feels rigidSomthing like on the picture below.
  


      


  My second jig is for horizontal cuts it's called Timberjig and I bought it from Logosol 
  Sweden for around Eur. 280 (USD 320) This was not cheap but the jig is very well made. You have
  the scale in cm and in inches so you can easily set up the board thickness. You just unwinde 
  these two bolts and set the jig up or down. You have Youtube clips with Logosol Timberjig
  so you can check it. 
  My Stihl 070 is bigger and older saw so I had to make some modifications in order to use 
  the Timberjig but nothing much and now it cuts nice. Of course I had to buy ripping chain
  which was around  Eur. 50 ( USD 57). The chain is original Stihl ripping chain and  I bought it
  from ebay.co.uk, 



  The whole opetation will look something like this below:

  


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