Author Topic: Fluted stickers for sale in Michigan-great price. (Read 2165 times)

oakiemac · « **on:** March 30, 2005, 04:16:55 pm »

A while back, Paschle posted about DKW hardwoods in Grand Rapids Michigan going out of buisness. Well I called them yesterday and found out they are selling their supply of fluted (breeze) kiln sticks. For all of you not familar with these sticks, they are the ones with a spiral pattern cut into them. They are great for whiter woods like maple, poplar, cherry or any wood that you don't want sticker stain.
I went up to Canada about 2 years ago to buy some and they cost about 45 cents for a 4' stick. DKW is selling them now for 500 for a hundred bucks-that's 20 cents a piece.

Just thought some one else might be interested in this. I'm buying another hundered on Friday.

oakiemac · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:56:36 pm »

I forgot to mention that if you want their number send me PM.

ElectricAl · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2005, 06:27:02 pm »

Oakiemac,

We bought 4000 48" about 3 years ago. Had them shipped by motor freight. When I add the freight to the price of the stick it was 80 cents each

They work great except basswood sawdust sticks in the flutes. Guess I need a sticker deduster

oakiemac · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2005, 10:24:03 pm »

Yeah I like them alot. The place that has the patent on them is up in Canada not too far from Niagra falls. So I told my bride that I was planning a trip with her to the falls. She thought that was a great idea then I kind of mentioned that we might be stoping on our way home at this sawmill place. She didn't even mind that since we got to spend the week end in Niagra. It was one of those win-win situations in life. Most of the time I get the lose-lose situations.

oakiemac · « **Reply #4 on:** April 01, 2005, 03:46:42 pm »

I just picked my stickers up from this place and found out that they are NOT the fluted stickers that I was led to beleive. They are standard flat ones. Still not a bad price, but I was dissappointed.

ElectricAl · « **Reply #5 on:** April 01, 2005, 06:30:45 pm »

Oakiemac,

Looks like your "Bride" will be treated to a return trip to the falls

oakiemac · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:36:50 pm »

I'm trying to talk her into a trip up to Alaska. Maybe I could bring my mill with me. There has got to be a few trees in that state.

Minnesota_boy · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:40:20 pm »

Yep, take your mill to Alaska. Prudhoe bay, I think. The'll let you cut and mill any tree there and not charge you a bit of stumpage they have so many.

rvrdivr · « **Reply #8 on:** July 18, 2005, 05:36:50 pm »

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fluted (breeze) kiln sticks. For all of you not familar with these sticks, they are the ones with a spiral pattern cut into them.

Can anyone send up a picture of one of these? I'd like to see

Thanks

Brad_S. · « **Reply #9 on:** July 18, 2005, 07:17:34 pm »

Here ya be.
http://www.breezedried.com/

Gilman · « **Reply #10 on:** July 19, 2005, 12:44:45 pm »

I wonder if they've had some patent infringement problems?

Don_Lewis · « **Reply #11 on:** July 21, 2005, 07:48:20 am »

They have had infringement problems and are agressive about defending the patents. They have consistently won and the patents have stood up.

Frank_Pender · « **Reply #12 on:** July 21, 2005, 10:26:43 pm »

Can a fella make his own and not sell them? Is that an infingement?

Gabby · « **Reply #13 on:** July 22, 2005, 09:19:35 am »

FYI- I called Townsend Lumber (Breezedried) For 4' hardwood they want .50 apiece but minimun order is 1000.

oakiemac · « **Reply #14 on:** July 22, 2005, 10:57:19 pm »

I went there a couple of years ago and got 600 for 45 cents per. They didn't say anything about a minimum but I wished I had gotten 1000.

Frank_Pender · « **Reply #15 on:** July 24, 2005, 10:53:24 pm »

I was just going back over this thread and the site for the fluted stickers. I think that the next batch I make I will run them to the dimension of 1" x 1" that I use and then set the tablesaw to put a 1/8 saw blade groove down the middle on each side about a 1/4 inch deep. Any thoughts out there?

Furby · « **Reply #16 on:** July 25, 2005, 01:54:08 am »

Don't know anything about it, but would think there would be a lot of movement and splitting in the stickers.
Maybe CAREFULLY raising the blade into the sticker a little ways in from the end and stopping short on the other end would help, but that seems like a lot of work.
Give it a try on a couple layers and let us know what happens.

Brad_S. · « **Reply #17 on:** July 25, 2005, 07:12:30 am »

I've routed a U shaped channel into stickers by using a power feeder and sending the across the router table. It worked fine but was labor intensive. Was meaning to try it on a shaper but now I have a moulder and plan on getting knives made for it and do the thicknessing and profiling in one pass.
I like the idea of getting rid of as much sticker surface area as I can without compromising the sticker strength. I would think what you propose would work well too.

Larry · « **Reply #18 on:** July 25, 2005, 08:39:19 am »

I made sticks by cutting a 1/2" dado in 1-1/4" wide sticks. Sticks were 3/4" thick and they worked good...kept the maple white and stain free.

TexasTimbers · « **Reply #19 on:** July 25, 2005, 11:50:22 am »

Here is a way I made some stickers out of an ash log saturday. I don't know how the pictures will come out, I still don't know how to maximize the usage of the upload features on this forum.

Cripes. Life is too short to beat my head against this wall. I guess I'm just a computer moron

At least on this site

Buzz-sawyer · « **Reply #20 on:** July 25, 2005, 12:14:04 pm »

have you looked at these pics of how too?
http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=12416.0

Brad_S. · « **Reply #21 on:** July 25, 2005, 03:22:41 pm »

kevjay,
Getting the photo to the album is the hard part and it looks like you got that far at least!

Is this what you tried to post? Looks like you cut your log to sticker length and then rip it.

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Author Topic: Fluted stickers for sale in Michigan-great price. (Read 2165 times)