wobblycogs
Established Member
Hi, I'm building a couple of doors and one of the pieces of timber that I'll be using for a stile has a bit of a bow in it. The timber is 54mm thick rough sawn meranti and I need to get a 44mm thick stile out of it, the bow is about 9mm over the 2m length of the stile!
On paper at least the stile I need is hiding inside the rough sawn timber sitting on my bench but I'm not sure of the best way to extract it. I've got a planner thicknesser but the tables aren't anywhere near long enough to handle timber of this length (1100mm total table length vs 2000mm of the stile). I suppose I could build extensions but I was really hoping to avoid that if possible as I very rarely work with timber this long.
I did wonder about trying to unbend the timber. A single clamp easily pulled the bow out when I clamped it against another piece of stock. In fact considering how easy it was to pull the bow out I've even wondered about just leaving it bowed and letting the joinery pull it straight in the final glue up. That seems risky though.
Any ideas gratefully received!
On paper at least the stile I need is hiding inside the rough sawn timber sitting on my bench but I'm not sure of the best way to extract it. I've got a planner thicknesser but the tables aren't anywhere near long enough to handle timber of this length (1100mm total table length vs 2000mm of the stile). I suppose I could build extensions but I was really hoping to avoid that if possible as I very rarely work with timber this long.
I did wonder about trying to unbend the timber. A single clamp easily pulled the bow out when I clamped it against another piece of stock. In fact considering how easy it was to pull the bow out I've even wondered about just leaving it bowed and letting the joinery pull it straight in the final glue up. That seems risky though.
Any ideas gratefully received!