Thursday, March 7, 2013

Carpentry, Cedar for the Sauna

No sauna is complete without Red Cedar to give it that great smell.  Well it just so happens we live on an island populated with cedar, and there are several local mills that can process it for us.  Mike Allen gladly produced 1,000 brdft. of 1'x6" planks; more than enough to complete the whole project.  This is the second project he's helped us with, the first being the yellow cedar for the saw horses pictured below.  The students and I have made several trip to his mill to learn a bit about the process of producing lumber.  We used Mr. Stokes big Dodge to pick it up, but there was so much we could fit it all into one load.  We're planning the wood one side and dadoing a lap joint down the sides.


The pile of Red Cedar (cut beautifully)
 The sauna all framed up and some of the cedar in place

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