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It’s not going to be carpenter specks or the best scratch building ever, just a fun project for me; I hope you will follow along with this build. These were some of Paul's forum posted Sawmill pictures; Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/11/2010 :  11:51:37 AM     I’ve started this project using Royal Paper Products wood coffee stirrers, and assorted stripwood sizes. These have been dipped into a mixture of denatured alcohol and brown shoe dye. I have completed putting together the framework and first floor deck. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 Ensign Fireman Posted - 07/11/2010 :  11:52:49 AM     Hi Louis, this looks like a great build to watch! Paul has done a really nice job with his, and I am certain you will as well! Best of luck with your build of this interesting sawmill. Greg Shinnie Country: Canada | Posts: 3712 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/11/2010 :  11:57:25 AM     quote: Originally posted by Ensign Hi Louis, this looks like a great build to watch! Paul has done a really nice job with his, and I am certain you will as well! Best of luck with your build of this interesting sawmill. Greg Shinnie Hi Greg, thanks for the kind words, and yes Paul has always been a fan of mine when it came to modeling. I always enjoyed his work. And, as you have seen in the past, I'm always posting his work of one thing or another. He was a great man and a fast building modeler of some fantastic work. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/12/2010 :  09:51:52 AM     The first floor framework has been completed, and set on top of the sawmill base. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 nalmeida Fireman Posted - 07/12/2010 :  11:43:50 AM       The sawmill is looking great Louis. Are you planning to scratchbuild the machinery? _________________________ Nelson Almeida [Portugal] My home at the web: http://www.modelismoartesanal.eu Country: Portugal | Posts: 2028 Rick Administrator Premium Member Posted - 07/12/2010 :  12:32:49 PM     Not sure when you started this, but you've made a lot of progress already. I'll be watching as you post more progress. Country: USA | Posts: 17736 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/12/2010 :  4:42:18 PM     quote: Originally posted by nalmeida The sawmill is looking great Louis. Are you planning to scratchbuild the machinery? Gracas Nelson e cumprimento, I'm not really good a speaking Portuguese, thats pretty much all I know. Thanks for checking out the mill and leaving a comment. The machinery is better off items bought, I could build them, but don't have the patientience. I'll be building the log haul, log carrage, log deck and saw, and dead rolls, but that's about it. They will be after the type Paul Templar made up himself for his mill. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/12/2010 :  4:50:47 PM     quote: Originally posted by Rick Not sure when you started this, but you've made a lot of progress already. I'll be watching as you post more progress. Hi Rick, the denatured alcohol and brown shoe dye, as you know, dries fast. So it's pretty fast when you don't have instructions to follow, and you use CA Zap-A-Gap. It's drop the wood into the mix, pull it out, dries good enough to glue about an hour or so later. It took longer to draw the sections on graft paper, than to put things together. Thanks for following along. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/12/2010 :  5:07:03 PM     Nelson and others, Nelson asked if I was going to build my own machinery, so I thought I would post some of what Paul Templar made up. I will attempt to build some of these items, but for the most part I will get store bought items. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 BBLmber Fireman Posted - 07/12/2010 :  5:25:54 PM     Louis, I assum that you are modeling this in HO, not O scale as Paul's last one. Looking real nice so far. Mark W,L,&E Country: USA | Posts: 4227 Frederic Testard Engineer Posted - 07/12/2010 :  5:50:02 PM     Louis, this is a very nice project, and a well deserved tribute to Paul Templar's great modelling. Don't be too shy with machinery making. What one can do with a few bits of styrene is often amazing. Frederic Testard Country: France | Posts: 16448 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/12/2010 :  7:16:29 PM     quote: Originally posted by BBLmber Louis, I assum that you are modeling this in HO, not O scale as Paul's last one. Looking real nice so far. Mark Hi Mark, yes this is HO scale, or should I say his OO scale Badger Creek sawmill. Thanks for your comment. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/12/2010 :  7:25:27 PM     quote: Originally posted by Frederic Testard Louis, this is a very nice project, and a well deserved tribute to Paul Templar's great modelling. Don't be too shy with machinery making. What one can do with a few bits of styrene is often amazing. Thanks Frederic, and yes Paul will always be missed by me as a great modeler that he was. I have seen machinery made here on the forum by different members, including yourself, and they are all fantastic ideas, and to see how easy it can be. I can't remember who it was, but he used locomotive fan grills for a bandsaw. Now, who can think up stuff like this I ask you? Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 desertdrover Engineer Premium Member Posted - 07/13/2010 :  09:29:08 AM     Here I put together the second floor loft, where Paul had his machine shop located. I will have to see where I want my stairway to go, and then I’ll cut open a hatchway in the floor for the stairs coming up from the main sawmill floor. Of course As Rick noted, I’m moving right along. Well being retired has a lot to do with all the time in the world to put these things together. I just wish we could have all retired in your 20’s and 30’s when we can still see well, and hold things still. Louis Pacific Northwest Logging in the East Coast Country: USA | Posts: 11263 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 07/13/2010 :  09:46:24 AM     Looking good Louis. You’re making nice progress. 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