Peter G Denmark
Established Member
Hello.
Where i live, hardwood is not easy to come by, and when you find a dealer that will sell to private people, it costs a lot. So i've settled for reclaimed wood from old doors etc.
But recently i bumped into an old guy, who was selling his farm and forrest, so he wanted to get rid of at lot of hardwood.
I got about 6m3 cherry, 2 m3 oak, 1 m3 beech, 1 m3 birch for about £800. It's been air dried for 10 years, and it's all rough cut to 55mm slabs, 3 meters in length. I guess i will have hardwood for a long time now.
The slabs still have bark on the edges, so i have to find the best way of truing them.
I've seen those plywood sleds that people clamp the rough lumber to, and then run them through the table saw.
But i wondered i anything would be wrong with just using a straight edge (i have an aluminium straight edge that 4 meters long), and a regular circular saw to true one edge? I have a 40 cm wide jointer/surface planer, so i would surface one side of the board first, and the put the straight edge on that.
What do you do with wood, that still has bark on it?
Where i live, hardwood is not easy to come by, and when you find a dealer that will sell to private people, it costs a lot. So i've settled for reclaimed wood from old doors etc.
But recently i bumped into an old guy, who was selling his farm and forrest, so he wanted to get rid of at lot of hardwood.
I got about 6m3 cherry, 2 m3 oak, 1 m3 beech, 1 m3 birch for about £800. It's been air dried for 10 years, and it's all rough cut to 55mm slabs, 3 meters in length. I guess i will have hardwood for a long time now.
The slabs still have bark on the edges, so i have to find the best way of truing them.
I've seen those plywood sleds that people clamp the rough lumber to, and then run them through the table saw.
But i wondered i anything would be wrong with just using a straight edge (i have an aluminium straight edge that 4 meters long), and a regular circular saw to true one edge? I have a 40 cm wide jointer/surface planer, so i would surface one side of the board first, and the put the straight edge on that.
What do you do with wood, that still has bark on it?