Re-sawing fir lumber

We’ve begun remod­el­ling our micro-bungalow. The first order of busi­ness is to col­lect or build com­po­nents that will be needed once demo­li­tion is under way.  Since the inte­rior walls are even­tu­ally going away, we removed some of the fir inte­rior trim and milled it into thick veneer for use in build­ing the bath­room van­ity.
The image illus­trates the re-sawing process using my vin­tage Duro band saw equipped with a cus­tom fence.  The fence has a drift adjust­ment that rotates the fence very nearly at the front edge of the blade to accom­mo­date any ten­dency for the blade to cut right or left. There is a cam actu­ated lock-down lever that oper­ates with a very light action to clamp the fence in posi­tion.
Even the small amount of trim removed thus far yielded an amaz­ing vari­ety of fig­ure rang­ing from some unusual wavy grain to tight VG along with the usual diag­o­nal fir grain and some not-so-tight VG as seen in the image above.

Kurt