I sell a very small amount from time to time, but mostly, I have a hard enough time keeping lumber for my projects. I bought my Woodmizer in 1991 because we own 75ac of mostly timber up the side of a mountain, and I never wanted to have it commercially logged.
Since then, I've built a bunch of sheds/barns/etc around here (more than enough to pay for the mill), done some cabinet and millwork ( one of the projects was to build a 35x75 shop building to generate more projects...ahahahaa), built some furniture, and so on. I air dry my lumber on sticks off the mill, (drying shed below), then the stuff that needs to be 6-8%, I built a little dry kiln in a corner of the shop, runs off an old window AC unit.
16x64 4 Bay lumber drying shed: (not finished in this photo)
We built our house in 1985, using timber off the place (had to take it to a local mill at that time....too broke to buy a Woodmizer), so about 5 years ago, we started remodeling, getting it ready for retirement age, and finishing up the odds/ends I never did the first time around (my wife keeps a perpetual list going).
I'd built the first cabinets, but 25 years later, my skills and tooling had improved, so we're more pleased with this final (fingers crossed) round on it.
This was the v.1: I had no clue how to build a raised panel door, so did board/batten (batten was on the inside) using strips of 3/4" red oak, run in a "V" groove on a router table.
This time around, did raised red oak panels, and a LOT more drawers. I ended up going back inside the previous cabinets and mounting slide out drawer/shelves, so this time, we just decided to go with mostly drawers mounted on those REAL nice ball bearing/self closing slides. Like it MUCH better.
Gutted the whole thing down to the studs, added things like vented hood (which was a real trick, as there is a bathroom with all kinds of plumbing directly overhead) and used granite this time around. Granite has actually come down in price to the point it's competitive with Formica tops, if you don't go too crazy on the stone you pick.
Door goes out to what was originally just a covered porch, then became a frame in some window holes and screen them over so we can use it more to a 'why don't you just put real windows in it so we can use it all year round, tile the concrete floor, etc, etc, etc. Ya'll have places in your house that don't look anything like what you started out with ?
12" deep x 8' long x 7' high pantry unit down the hall leading to the garage.
1 1/4" raised panel red oak bifold doors (quarter sawn), washer/dryer area.
I spent about 6 months on the remodel. Most of the cabinets/etc, I had prebuilt in the shop before I set in and tore up the kitchen, but the kitchen was out of commission most of the summer.
