In the back of my truck I have five big blocks of rather highly figured big leaf maple. It's only been recently felled so it's about as wet as you can imagine for maple this time of year.
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Some of this might end up as turning blanks but the original intent was to resaw most of it for some cabinet door veneer.
I'm rather reluctant to wait the 4-6 years for this stuff to become air dried; I could have it kiln dried at a little local mill or I can attempt to resaw it green. I took one big block and tried running it through my MM16 equipped with a Lennox 1" 3TPI blade. Several issues there.
It doesn't seem like the gullets are clearing the waste very well. Cutting dry wood it seems to cut a good deal faster given the same depth of cut. Whether that's a condition of the blade geometry and tooth count I don't know. Would a lower tooth count be better?
I get horrible black stains on the wet wood from the saw table, fence, and most of all from the blade itself. I've scrupulously cleaned all but the blade with little improvement. The black appears to be superficial and is easily planed or scraped away. Is this something one should expect when cutting green, wet wood?
Lastly, does anyone have a design for a resaw sled? I'm having a devil of a time getting consistent thickness for the slices. The saw and blade are tuned for drift so that's not an issue. What is is my trying to handle these heavy chunks of wood through the saw.