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A few more boards done today, beginning to look like I have stock ready to start! Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Thanks. Got another two top pieces out of a board last night. Turns out some of them have wavy metal plates driven I the ends to prevent splitting I guess although I would have thought the stresses would still be there just waiting. So it's lucky I cut the laminate tops 30 cm oversize as I...

Building a house I think I have to stick with what I have for now, but I always like the look of them in BW. I take the point about resawing boards. The thinnest I could get though was 34 and I need 12. Precious wood as its called here is by the cubic metre so all the same price by volume...

I've been blathering away in different threads about various related topics, so I thought it time to put it all together in one thread. I recently got some 34mm and 60mm stock of waney edged European (Soft) Maple for two builds. The 34mm is for kitchen drawers, and I have been having fun even...

Oh there are lots of them.most people I know are in one trade or another, however they have the kit to deal with it, 50 cm table saws to take 5m panels. I am getting some of the equivalent of plywood which comes in 5m x 3m panels! Everybody has a site saw at home but that's just for firewood...

Just watched the Video again by Steve: he talks about getting rid of snipe. My movement test is < 4mm, and I had thought I was getting this with short pieces. As I said earlier I will have another try. Maybe where I've seen others have more difficulty was with long and heavy timbers, where...

What? (and thanks). I ONLY have it when thicknessing, planed boards are fine, however it comes out the thicknesser with snipe. I have seen everyone from Steve Maskery to Marc Spagnuolo talk about it, and strategies for getting around it etc... I don't think they are incompetent. if you have...

oh yes, plane one side first of course. I thought snipe was ubiquitous, in project videos I see everyone cutting off snipe, and complaining about it?

It's one table though, so can't be that... I do use hand planes a lot, just not for large flat and parallel surfaces... I know it's possible, but for certain items I'm more power tool than hand tool user. drawers would be one (barring the dovetail joints)

I'm using a scheppach HMS2600ci rather than a benchtop thicknesser. so there's got to be 14" support either side. I do use rollers for long pieces, however just to stop them falling, so they are set a few mm lower than the beds. not sure what one can do with machine and technique, you just...

I am doing the same thing now. Have boards like this: They are 60mm thick, and I have one 80mm (not pictured). I started with chalkline to mark them out, first time I've got really good use out of my chalkline, it's excellent. Then I went at it with a jigsaw. It was not too bad, but...

I wasn't aware that anyone had come up with a way to eliminate snipe of a planer/thicknesser? Would be great if there was. I remember a Steve Maskery video about reducing the effects, however for kitchen drawer sides I really want none on the finished pieces. I will have to revisit that video.

But then I am looking at 40% wastage rough milling, and then 37% of the remaining, so final wastage of 62% odd... snipe really is a pain - each time i am thicknessing I get the urge to buy a drum sander... just to do the last mm.

I was exaggerating for the purposes of humour, which clearly failed ;-) There must be a point at which glued up boards become too thin to hold, however if the glue really is stronger than the wood, then that time should be when the wood is to thin anyway... So I will have a try at ripping down...

I'm not sure it would be cheaper to import than just cut the stuff they have themselves. There is Canadian maple however that's hard maple not soft. I just think their target audience is trade, I don't know any other hobby woodworkers here. The one place I have sourced roughly milled lumber...

Three problem is that I am going to a trade place and not picking boards is just how it is. A friend came to help me lift them into a pile and he didn't know what I was complaining about and he is a professional joiner. With my wood whisperer membership I thinki have all the plans including...

The species is soft maple. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Thanks for replies,I still feel that getting 12 from 34 is a lot of wastage. I am not concerned about people seeing it. Just that gluing 12mm board liked this may not have good strength... Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

There seems to be a gap where I am, nobody sells this: Instead I get this: Apart from the sheer effort and hassle of dealing with extremely large pieces without industrial strength tooling, I have a lot of cupped boards. The plan was to make some 30cm wide by 12-16mm thick boards that...

Mine will be a hybrid. Based on the split top Roubo that I think benchcrafted sponsored in the Woodshisperer guild, adjusted to use the English Woodworkers vices. I will try and do some WIP, I have started with my lumber woes, the stock I am able to get requires some serious work, and will...