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Ive had a board of mahogany up in the loft for what must be over 10 years now & so I guess its well seasoned.
Yesterday I cut off a piece about 8" wide & thicknessed it down to approx 10mm thick, it came out perfectly flat from the thicknesser & by the time I had done that & some other jobs it was the end of the day so I just left the woods on my bench.
When I came in the next morning I noticed the wood was no longer flat, it had curved slightly over the 8" width & so I thought if that was a panel for a door or something it would be pretty useless now.
What have I done wrong? should I have left the pieces clamped overnight or with some weights on them to prevent bowing? or am I doing it all wrong? should the 8" wide piece have been made out of strips of say 2" wide making sure the growth rings are alternating as Norm always seems to do & then biscuit them together?
Any advice would be handy to me right now as up until now ive been making up little jigs & things with just soft wood from "Wicks" but it seems now im working with "Real" wood im experiencing these sort of problems.
Thanks guys,
Nick :?
Yesterday I cut off a piece about 8" wide & thicknessed it down to approx 10mm thick, it came out perfectly flat from the thicknesser & by the time I had done that & some other jobs it was the end of the day so I just left the woods on my bench.
When I came in the next morning I noticed the wood was no longer flat, it had curved slightly over the 8" width & so I thought if that was a panel for a door or something it would be pretty useless now.
What have I done wrong? should I have left the pieces clamped overnight or with some weights on them to prevent bowing? or am I doing it all wrong? should the 8" wide piece have been made out of strips of say 2" wide making sure the growth rings are alternating as Norm always seems to do & then biscuit them together?
Any advice would be handy to me right now as up until now ive been making up little jigs & things with just soft wood from "Wicks" but it seems now im working with "Real" wood im experiencing these sort of problems.
Thanks guys,
Nick :?