Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

On FleaBay, black walnut 2" thick is going for $6.00 per board foot. So the material he had in his garage has some value. Since it was given to him, I agree that it would be $0.00 on the spreadsheet if he is just tracking out of pocket expenses.

On the other hand, he could include the value of the walnut and I suppose the value of his work (at least at minimum wage) if he has been tracking his time to see the total investment he has made in his redesign/rebuild. I think that would be an interesting number to see.

zigzagrv wrote:

fulltimin wrote:
I picked up a 10" saw blade at the Home Depot, for my table saw. It's a Diablo brand, 24 teeth and primarily used for ripping.

I figured since there will be a bunch of ripping going on during the rest of this rebuild, it might be a good thing.

I have been using that Diablo blade for a long time ripping oak, walnut, cherry, mahogany, pine, spruce.....etc., some of it at full depth. It seems as sharp today as it was when I first put it on. Great blade!

Good to hear. The reviews looked pretty good, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I am glad I did.

Thanks.

If he has zero dollars invested in the wood then the proper value on the spreadsheet would be zero. Otherwise......

fulltimin wrote:
It became readily apparent, that I have been doing this wrong for quite a while. I normally use a 50 tooth combination blade, instead of switching back and forth for different cuts.

After using this on a few cuts, I stand corrected. This thing cuts through hardwood, like a hot knife through butter! Wow.

The right tool for the job. It's more about the bevel and hook angles of the teeth than the tooth count. I have found that in the long run, it's worth the time spent changing the blade to the proper one for the task.

As for the spreadsheet, I see a potential dilema you need to resolve. Do you, or do you not, include the value of the walnut on your spreadsheet. If you are simply tracking out of pocket expenses, then I guess you leave it off. If you are tracking the cos of the remodel, I would think that you would count the value of the walnut as you have reduced your inventory of "project wood" and will need to buy more if you decide in the future to build a different project out of walnut.

Decisions, decisions.

fulltimin wrote:
I picked up a 10" saw blade at the Home Depot, for my table saw. It's a Diablo brand, 24 teeth and primarily used for ripping.

I figured since there will be a bunch of ripping going on during the rest of this rebuild, it might be a good thing.

I have been using that Diablo blade for a long time ripping oak, walnut, cherry, mahogany, pine, spruce.....etc., some of it at full depth. It seems as sharp today as it was when I first put it on. Great blade!

So, opening up the spreadsheet again. The saw blade cost me $30.71 with tax.

Prior total was $8982.41, so adding the 2 together and we have a new grand total of $9013.12.

Finally broke the $9,000 dollar mark. Good, bad or indifferent....

After I was done splitting the black walnut, about 2 minutes later, I checked the temp of the saw.







It was just a little warmer than that when I finished, but it hasn't self destructed yet. That's a good thing!

With some other stuff I needed to get done today, I ran out of time to plane the split black walnut, so that will be part of tomorrow's work.

Here is a pic of my Ryobi reciprocating saw. The area in the circle is where this puppy gets hot after using if for a while.

It has gotten hot enough that is was very uncomfortable to put my hand there. Yea, not really a good idea.

After cutting the edges of the 12" wide black walnut plank, I took that back to the motor home and finished splitting it with the reciprocating saw. Yippee.

I now have enough wood cut and ripped for the counter top. Wahoo!

It became readily apparent, that I have been doing this wrong for quite a while. I normally use a 50 tooth combination blade, instead of switching back and forth for different cuts.

After using this on a few cuts, I stand corrected. This thing cuts through hardwood, like a hot knife through butter! Wow.

I cut my last piece of black walnut with the table saw instead of the little Ryobi portable. I made one cut on each side, just a little over 3" deep, without any trouble at all. Seriously? Yes.

I also cut a 2" thick piece of oak with this blade, and I am impressed.

Here's a pic of the cut oak, with a very smooth cut, and again, the cut was very quick, without pulling the motor down.

I have an old Delta 10" table saw, with a 1.5 hp motor that is 3 phase, but am running it on single phase electric. That means that I get about 1 hp out of the motor, since only 2 of the 3 legs are "hot". It works fine, but just doesn't have quite the power that a larger motor would, or if this was on 3 phase.

As I said, this made ripping oak and walnut very easy. Yay!