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I'm making furniture to go in a house. should the workshop temperature and humidity be the same as the house? How do you heat / de-humidify your workshop?

I'm looking to purchase my first planer / thicknesser machine. The Axminster AW106PT looks about the right sort of spec and price... Does anyone have first hand experience of this machine? How good is it? Looking at comments on this forum the Scheppach hms2600ci sounds like a particularly...

...also what is the best way to store dry wood in the workshop - vertically?, horizontally? - just stacked one board on another?, or with sticks between each board? thanks, Andrew

thanks, for the welcomes... The wood is straight grained and knot free. My workshop is unheated most of the time (aren't most?) - just like the storage hanger where the wood was stored when I bought it... How do I know when the wood is acclimatised to my workshop? Is a de-humidifier a good...

it's 30 x 8 x 1 inch thick... it's bowed about 3mm over the length, ...it hasn't warped through planing pressure, i'm certain of that.

Hi, This is my first forum posting here... How do I keep a planed timber flat? I've just (hand) planed a piece of Oak flat on one face, than gauged the thickness and proceeded to plane the other face flat... only to find that on flipping the timber over the face I planed first is now bowed...