Mike B
Established Member
Hi
I have 3 boards of American White Oak approx 1.7m long by 130mm wide. They started life as rough flat sawn boards, supposedly kiln dried and a friend helpfully thicknessed them to about 32mm thick for me. The finish was bad so I wimped out of the hand planing required and put them in the spare room nicely stickered up and forgot about them for 6mths or so
When SWMBO finally lost patience out came the hand tools. Two of the boards had bowed about 6 or 7mm so after a lot of blisters, sweat and tears I managed to get them pretty straight and flat again, now about 28mm thick. So far so good. Unfortunately, had a bit of a family crisis so they were once again in the spare room, this time standing on their long edges 6 - 8 inches apart, for the next 3 weeks. Now I've dug them out again, 2 of the 3 have bowed another 3mm or so!! :x
Any suggestions to what I am doing wrong here?? Is this normal?? Should I have got a finish on them asap?? Were they not properly dry to start with?? Or just awkward boards?!
Cheers
Mike
I have 3 boards of American White Oak approx 1.7m long by 130mm wide. They started life as rough flat sawn boards, supposedly kiln dried and a friend helpfully thicknessed them to about 32mm thick for me. The finish was bad so I wimped out of the hand planing required and put them in the spare room nicely stickered up and forgot about them for 6mths or so
When SWMBO finally lost patience out came the hand tools. Two of the boards had bowed about 6 or 7mm so after a lot of blisters, sweat and tears I managed to get them pretty straight and flat again, now about 28mm thick. So far so good. Unfortunately, had a bit of a family crisis so they were once again in the spare room, this time standing on their long edges 6 - 8 inches apart, for the next 3 weeks. Now I've dug them out again, 2 of the 3 have bowed another 3mm or so!! :x
Any suggestions to what I am doing wrong here?? Is this normal?? Should I have got a finish on them asap?? Were they not properly dry to start with?? Or just awkward boards?!
Cheers
Mike