Fwd: New Product Alert: Woodpeckers Board Mill

[MWF]

Hello LOM Group Members,

It has been a bit quiet on "the Board" these past several days - so I thought I'd forward this email I received out for everyone to see & enjoy.

I had already got it in my mind to take my Mill partly apart and construct a "Slab Mill" with the Y-Axis gantry and two pieces of the X-Axis rail.  Looks like Woodpeckers folks had a very similar idea.  Note that their Router Sled rides on TOP of the longitudinal rails - with those rails positioned with a corner "edge" up.  Interesting rig.  Has anyone signed up to buy one?

By the way, I am still waiting to hear from anyone that has communicated with or visited the owner of the HUGE Mill in Gardena, California.  That Mill has been on eBay for at least 6 months!

Work SAFE!

Mac

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From: Woodpeckers <woodpeck...@e.woodpeck.com>
Date: September 17, 2019 at 04:00:00 EDT
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Subject: New Product Alert: Woodpeckers Board Mill
Reply-To: Woodpeckers <mailr...@woodpeck.com>

Flatten the face and joint the edge of your wide boards without a jointer. If you don’t have the space or the budget for a $10,000, one-ton jointer in your shop (and, frankly, who does?), but you still want flat boards up to 16" wide, Woodpeckers new Board Mill is for you. Establishing that first flat face and straight, square edge can be a challenge on wider boards. How do you flatten a 12- or 15-inch wide board when you have a 6- or 8-inch jointer? Even within the capacity of your jointer, wide boards can be difficult to handle, particularly when it’s 1-1/2" thick white oak, rock maple or other gnarly hardwood.  Woodpeckers has taken a different approach to milling the first face and edge. Instead of wrestling your board across a jointer (that you probably don’t have), keep the board stationary and move the cutter.  Our new Board Mill locks down that heavy, awkward board and puts your router in motion, following a defined plane to create flat faces and square edges accurately and safely. Your router will cut away warp, twist, bow and cupping on the face of your board. Once the face is flat, lock the lateral travel of the router and cut the edge of the board square to the just-milled face. Now your thickness planer has a true reference to follow and you have a straight, square edge to ride along your table saw rip fence. The Board Mill is optimized for stock from 3/4" to 1-3/4" in thickness. The cross-rail assembly rides directly on the long rails for stock up to 1-1/16". For stock between 1-1/16" and 1-3/4" just insert the riser blocks…no screws, nuts or bolts needed. The base model will handle stock up to 16" wide and 53-3/4" long. There are also units with extended length capacities of 77-3/4", 101-3/4" and 125-3/4". Facing a board can sometimes mean removing a lot of material, so we built dust collection in as a standard feature. The dual-point pick-up collects chips equally well on either push cuts or pull cuts. The special Y-connector fits 2-1/2" dust hose on the outside, or slip a standard 2-1/4" shop vacuum hose-end inside. The Board Mill is compatible with most any router, fixed base or plunge. While it works well with larger routers, we find it well suited to 1-3/4 HP models, such as the variable speed Porter-Cable 6902VS shown in the photos. We recommend the Amana RC-2250 replaceable insert spoilboard bit for machining faces and a 1/2" down-cut spiral straight bit for jointing edges. We also have larger spoilboard bits if you’re using a 3+HP router. Already have Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill? The Conversion Kit includes the shorter-framed carriage, short cross rails and carriage stops you need to face and edge thinner stock. You’ll use the long rails that came with your Slab Flattening Mill. Just by switching cross rails and carriages you can surface thick, live edge slabs or straighten and square normal thickness stock. Like all Woodpeckers tools, the Board Mill is precisely machined and carefully inspected in our Strongsville, Ohio factory (just south of Cleveland). For a limited time, we’re offering special savings on pre-orders. Delivery is scheduled for February 2020. Credit Card Policy. Please note if you're paying by credit card, you will not be charged until your order is ready to ship. However, Paypal and other third-party payment services may charge you at the time the order is placed.

 

                                                           

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