NEWS AND TIPS ON PLANING

ANDREAS ALVÅG, TECHNICAL MANAGER LOGOSOL

“Greater demand for our expertise in tools and custom knives for planers!”

We can see a clear increase in demand for our extensive expertise in tools and custom-made knives for planer/moulders. For over 15 years we have been helping our customers with the right knives and tools for their planers. We have found solutions to the most complex requests and it’s only imagination that sets the limits for our customers.

We see that the demand for high-quality mouldings and floors is increasing sharply and that this gives the planer owners many exciting jobs. The value of the refining is great and for many it is the most profitable investment they have made.

Andreas has over the years helped customers and dealers all over the world and he never ceases to be fascinated by how many different types of high quality timber products that can be produced with these machines.

Below you will find tips on how to easily order your own moulding knives to produce unique profiles on your mouldings and panels. NEW FEATURE

FIND THE RIGHT

MOULDING KNIFE Now it’s easier than ever to find moulding knives on logosol.com/moulding-knives. In our database there are almost 1000 different moulding knives and you can quickly find the knives to fit your machine.

You can easily filter the moulding knives by position (horizontal, vertical), which machine they fit and what width you want on the knife. When you have found a moulding knife, you will also get tips on combinations where the current knife is included. You can also search for moulding knives you already have to get inspiration about what possibilities there are.

“This feature makes it clearer what tremendous opportunities there are with Logosol’s planer/moulders and makes it easier for customers, whether they are looking for a specific moulding knife or just want inspiration,” says Ted Sundin, who has developed the new feature.

• It should be easy to plane, and now it will be even easier to find the right moulding knives for your planer.

• Scan the QR code or visit www.logosol. com/moulding-knives

Design your own profile– custom-made knives increasingly more popular

Many customers look for special profiles, and this can become a profitable niche for your planing business. We will help you order custom-made knives, so you can offer your customers unique solutions at a reasonable price.

Example of profiles sent in to us. We make custom knives to your requirements!

It is easy to place your order:

1. You send us a sample piece of the moulding by post or email a drawing. 2. We will contact you and give you a quotation. 3. After you have approved the quotation, the knife will be sent to you within 10 days.

Open your mobile camera and point it to this QR code, and you will come directly to the web page where you can download the tool catalogue (92 pages). You can also get it at logosol.com/store/ downloads

OWN PLANER CREATES MORE POSSIBILITIES Refining that increases the value of the wood

Put a fifty-cent coin in at one end, take out 3.50 euros at the other. This is how Tobias Eklind explains the purchase of a planer from Logosol. The fact that it is also the workshop’s most fun tool to work with only makes the investment even more cost-efficient. Text: Mats Wigardt

It didn’t take long after the first Logosol chain sawmill had been introduced before it was time for another step in Logosol’s history book. Bengt-Olov Byström, the company’s founder, remembers the thought process:

“A sawn piece of timber has a limited area of use. Further steps are required to improve the quality and thus the value of the board.”

With the same thoughts that were behind the introduction of the Logosol chain sawmill (that is, one would have the opportunity to take care of and refine the trees that grew at home on the farm by sawing planks and boards) the Logosol planer was introduced on the world market.

A PLANER FOR HOUSEHOLD NEEDS In the past, a planer had only been affordable to the real It was not a machine that a small forester bought to produce a few meters of skirting board when the house was to be renovated.

“Our idea was that it would be just as quick and easy to plane your wood as to saw it,” says Bengt-Olov Byström.

And it was precisely as simple as that. The first planer to go on sale under the Logosol brand was manageable, easy to understand and affordable. A three-sided planer for SEK 20,000 was something completely new. The sawn timber could now be easily transformed into panels and mouldings.

“If the Logosol chain sawmill was a saviour, the planer became the key to making the forester self-sufficient in timber,” Bengt-Olov Byström concludes. “It was an incredible boost.”

THE LOGOSOL PLANER FILLED A GAP In the throng of planing customers there were, among others, several owners of smaller circular sawmills. Many had long felt the need to expand the business with a planer, but buying a new industrial planer was an investment they were unable to make.

For them, Logosol’s new planer became the solution that they had previously, unsuccessfully, put high on the wish list. • Tobias Eklind in Nol thrives when he planes his wood. ”Coolest machine in the workshop,” he assures us.

“We filled a need and solved a problem,” says Bengtpros. A planer was big, heavy, complicated and expensive.

Olov Byström. “Since then, we have sold about ten thousand planers all over the world.”

BY FAR THE COOLEST MACHINE One of these, a PH260 four-sided planer, stands in a workshop in Nol, outside Gothenburg. Here, Tobias Eklind has managed to combine a lifelong interest in forestry and wood with a passion for tools and photography. On social media, he runs his Project of the Day with tens of thousands of followers worldwide.

“I post films about sawmills and woodworking where I tell you as objectively as possible how they work,” he explains.

The fact that there is a planer in the machine collection is no coincidence. In addition to seeing the planer as by far the most fun tool to work with, it is also the next step in the processing of the wood he saws.

“It’s only with the planer that you can start making money,” he says. “Compared to raw sawn wood, the value increases between five and ten times when planed.”

If you have, like Tobias, your own forest and an old house in major need of renovation, you can save large amounts by developing panels, casings and mouldings. “Nothing complicated at all,” he assures. ”Many people who have a small sawmill can also plane the wood, even if it is only to be used as building joists,” says Tobias.

He himself has long-standing plans to expand his • If timber is raw sawn passing through the planer, it increases considerably in value.

company by offering to develop unique mouldings for city dwellers in the process of renovating their old apartments in central Gothenburg.

Whether he is working with a four-sided or a twosided planer, it is easy to quickly set up the machine, which makes it profitable to produce even very small batches, no matter if the raw material is bought readysawn or sawn by yourself.

“In addition“, adds Tobias, “the Logosol chain sawmills have a surprisingly high resale value. If you choose to sell, you get back a large part of your initial investment.”

Renovating with gentle hands

When Stefan bought a house built in the beginning of the 17th century, his interest in building conservation was born. Then he bought a Logosol chain sawmill (Logosol M5) and renovated the cladding in the old style – with boards of irregular widths.

”It’s amazing to be able to cut your own timber. This way I can use a style that reflects the age of the house.”

On his farm, Stefan cuts oak, ash, sometimes goat willow and cherry wood, and other sorts of wood that he can get hold of on the Swedish island Visingsö. –”We have the famous Visingsö oaks, which were planted here 200 years ago, and that now partially are allowed to be felled.

The oaks on Visingsö were planted for naval shipbuilding. From when they had a diameter of approx. 15 cm and up until they had finished growing in height, the oaks were pruned close to the branch collar to become tall and straight.

The interest in building conservation grew into cabinetmaking, which for Stefan includes the making of tables, benches, cutting boards and flower boxes, using recycled timber from demolished buildings. The planer SH410 is in operation almost every day and feeds out joinery material for the renovation of the houses on the farm and other woodwork projects. A 250-year-old log barn and a henhouse that is being converted into an exhibition room, are projects that are going on right now.

During the art walk, which is held the first weekend in August, and during the harvest weekend in September, 500-600 people will come by and look at my furniture, so I need some space for my products.