Jeff Horton
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I have been meaning to ask this for a long time. What are your steps in preping rough dry lumber? Do you do the whole board or do you cut it down and then dimension it?
I probably take a couple of extra steps but it works for me. But I am always looking for ways to improve my methods.
Typically I:
I do this especially on boards that have some twist or a bad cup. It saves some lumber going out in shavings. And of course I only have the 6" jointer at the moment so that is another reason I don't often dimension the whole board.
I have been thinking that once the 12" jointer gets here I may want to rethink my plan since I will be able to flatten a wide board now. I will probably still cut up twisted boards so I don't have as much scrap.
Jeff
Wondering if the jointer will every find it's way to it's new home.
I probably take a couple of extra steps but it works for me. But I am always looking for ways to improve my methods.
Typically I:
- rip and/or crosscut the board down to smaller pieces (a little larger than finished dimension)
- Then face joint it
- edge joint it to get a square surface.
- plane it to thickness
- rip to finished size -sometimes I leave it a 1/32 oversize and joint that off to get a good straight edge if it is going to mate with another part
- cross cut to finished size
I do this especially on boards that have some twist or a bad cup. It saves some lumber going out in shavings. And of course I only have the 6" jointer at the moment so that is another reason I don't often dimension the whole board.
I have been thinking that once the 12" jointer gets here I may want to rethink my plan since I will be able to flatten a wide board now. I will probably still cut up twisted boards so I don't have as much scrap.
Jeff
Wondering if the jointer will every find it's way to it's new home.