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The Real Scoop on Gullet Grinding
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 15th 2019
For more than 50yrs. the theory that blade gullets must be ground or the blade will get cracks has been perpetuated to the point that it is spoken asfact. The question today is: Is it True or False?
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Breaking Records with 2" Bandsaw Blades
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 14th 2019
For the operator of a thin kerf style sawmill or resaw looking for high production sawing there is little that can compete with the production that a 2” wide blade can provide. In addition, the invest
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The Bottom Line about Sawing Straight - Part 2
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 14th 2019
In the last article I gave you a little history as to how I came to realize many of the blade discoveries that garnered me some insight toward sawing straighter and faster. These findings revealed so
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The Bottom Line about Sawing Straight - Part 1
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 14th 2019
It was 1992 and we were selling a lot of thin kerf blades to the portable sawmill industry. I had a customer in Tomball, TX that had a Cook Sawmill and a LT 40 WM sawmill. One day he called me and
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Ready To Saw Production?
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 14th 2019
Some people are happy with a mill that saws ‘ok’, but ‘ok’ is not production sawing. If you’re in the group of people who purchased a sawmill with the intention of sawing for production or if you just
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Dreaming Again with a New Sawmill
Posted by Timberline Magazine on Jan 14th 2019
Long-time Former General Contractor Dreams Again with New Cook’s Saw Portable MillBy Maya L. BrewerAs seen in Timberline Magazine Jan 2011CHARLOTTE, North Carolina—Five years ago, Jeff Oberman’s 37-ye
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