MODERN SAWMILL TECHNIQUES Proceedings of the seventh Sawmill Clinic Portland, Oregon, March 1977

• Corporate Author: Sawmill Clinic
• Other Authors: White, Vernon S. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Miller Freeman Publications 1977
• Series: Sawmill clinic library Volume 7
• Subjects: Sawmills > Congresses
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 The annual Portland Sawmill & Plywood Clinic, with its associated equipment show, has become, in Just five years, a major marketplace for profitable Ideas in the wood manufacturing business. In attracting registrants and speakers from 18 countries outside the United States and Canada, the 1977 Portland Clinic demonstrated a burgeoning international charac ter, it soon may serve the industry's need for knowledge in Southeast Asia and Latin America as it now serves that need in vester North America. Skyrocketing log costs and a dwindling timber supply dictate the savailler's greatest need: ideas that will help hin turn the very last bit of fiber of his wood supply into profitable products. Fortunately, there are many men in the industry who are willing to share their knowledge, their experiences, and their workable new ideas. Typical of such men at the 1977 Portland Clinic was veteran saumiller Al Thrasher. Thrasher quickly got the Clinic's rapt attention. He described a gentle-toothed, shallou-gulleted, narrow-kerf sav. Such a sav may produce a face smooth enough, in many lumber items, to eliminate need for further dressing.