First Customer

I sawed for my first paying customer yesterday. She found my website using an internet search. She called and explained that she had one log 7 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, and that she lived in Sandy Hook, which is a part of Newtown.

That's further than I had though I would be traveling with the mill and a pretty small sawing job, but she was very enthusiastic, and didn't bat an eye at my $1/mile one-way travel fee for the 67 mile trip, so what the heck.

I sawed her log into 2 1/2 inch thick slabs to be used for benches. Then she wanted to saw very short logs that had been cut for firewood into "wood cubes". That's not in the Wood-Mizer manual, but we did it.

She invited friends and neighbors over to watch. She says she knows lots of people who she's sure would like to have logs milled. I may have to move to Fairfield county.

The Begining

I found that I needed to put this picture somewhere so that I could use it as part of the blog's header. It was taken the day my sawmill was delivered, so it seems appropriate to put it here at the begining of the blog.