Shingle Mill Build

[stevec]

(08-30-2012, 09:49 PM)f350ca Wrote: On the design side.
I'd hoped to cut the shingles down the grain rather than across. When your sawing lumber the blade travels across the grain and shears the wood fibbers. By turning the 16 inch block across the bed the blade would travel with the fibbers and leave a smoother surface which would be more rot resistant, similar to split shakes.
DOESN"T WORK.

I may be missing something here (hard to believe, huh?) but isn't most , if not all, of the sawing being done on your mill happen WITH the grain of the wood? I can't picture shingles with the flat surfaces being endgrain.