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Neil Hildebrand

Taken at the Hildebrand sawmill, Quilieute airport WA.,1 mile from the coastal village of LaPush WA. in 1990. Sitka spruce specialist since 1976.

My machines are relatively fast. I have a power fed gang rip that cuts 100 linear feet a minute or the equivalent of 30 blanks. I have a router based dowler that cuts with the grain, (a necessity with spruce) and runs 60 feet a minute or about 1 shaft every 3 seconds. Our sander is a custom built machine that rolls the shafts across a sanding belt, it was built by Rich Dyckhoff of Anderson Machine in Seattle WA.

And we have a laser line rip saw to get the edge of the board absolutely parallel to the grain before the board is cut, leaving all the shafts with the grain running as true to the shaft as possible.

	ROBERT Robert is now a complete Journeyman and currently our Shop Foreman He has been with us full time since the age of 15 & ready to take over shop upon our part time retirement-
JIM Jim is now 80 years young & still around with his valuable information & still making bows
	ROXANE Roxane is now 12 years with arrow grade, but ready to semi retire-
FLORIN Florin is no longer with us, & we miss him & his work ethics- we wish him well!!