Lumber from your firewood stack

摘要

The carter accuright log mill is a heavy-duty, user-friendly sled that works with any handsaw to turn firewood logs into lumber. An adjustable steel guide bar rides in the handsaw's miter slot, and Mylar strips on the bottom of the base smooth out the sliding action. But the heart of the jig is its steel fence, which holds the log with two adjustable clamp heads. The fence is also nicely adjustable side to side, and heavy-gauge, which makes the sled very stable in action. To use it, you position the rear jaw to suit the length of the log, and then tighten the front one. The clamps hold logs securely, even if the ends are crooked. After adjusting the fence to set up the path of the first cut, you saw one flat face, and then put that face down to cut an adjacent face square.