Happened onto a Ship Being Built

[Daniel S]

My girlfriend and I are visiting some friends in the San Francisco area and happened upon a really cool spot. One of the guys working showed us around. It was probably one of the coolest woodworking things I've seen.
http://educationaltallship.org/

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w493...zpsdbatqpdm.jpg

[Herb G]

Man, those are some serious power tools.

[Daniel S]

I meant to post this in the woodworking forum. They definitely had some great power tools.

[iclark]

I;m just happy that you posted the pics.

What is that tool behind the BS?

What kind of boat/ship are they building?

[Boatman53]

Happy birthday iclark. This is my world although on a much grander scale.
I think what you are actually seeing is part of the band saw itself. It's called a ships saw, the table always stays horizontal, for bevels both wheels rotate through the arc of that 'C'. There should be a crank off to the side so that as a big frame is cut to shape the "apprentice" would be cranking furiously so the changing bevel is cut at the same time as the frame. Very efficient.
Jim

[iclark]

Jin,

Thank you for the explanation and for the B'day wish.

Both are appreciated.

Ivan

[Anji12305]

Lot of work putting that frame around the hole in the water.

Money goes in through the top and magically disappears...

From my neck of the woods:
http://iyrs.edu/

[Daniel S]

iclark, their website calls it a brigantine. They had a couple of very large bandsaws that didn't tilt also.

[TGW]

Yep.
That bandsaw is a "ship saw". As a Scandinavian traditionalist I don't like some of the American style woodworking machines....... but American style ship saws are excellent machines we Europeans cannot match only envy.
I wish someone had exported them to my country.

[cputnam]

I wonder what they use that little Ridgid vac for?