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Working With Wood Continued
After selecting the pieces that I'll be using, it's time to run them
all through my table saw. Some of the pieces will need just a clean-up
but others will need a little more cut off.
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Here I'm gluing-up two boards and then at
the end of the day, I repeated all this again.
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One of the boards will have some purple heart in it, because my daughter
really likes this color.
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Once all the boards were glued together, it was time to run
them through my thickness planer. However, most of them didn't sit flat
so I glued on some cardboard shims of different thickness and sizes so
each one sat flat. Well, at least much better than before.
With the shims attached, I placed my boards, shims down,
and took a clean-up cut on each one. Once I verified the surface was
flat, I turned the boards over (shims upward) and brought them all to
size, which was .600" (slightly under 5/8").
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All of my work pieces came out great, except the one
below. What you see here is my scale that is between two pieces of wood
that somehow didn't glue together correctly (as I shake my head from
side-to-side).
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After I made a clean-up cut on all of my boards, I saw this area that
had separated for some reason. By the way, my scale is .015" thick so
now I have to fix this.
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The only thing I could do is cut off the bad section, but not touching
the purple heart...yet. I then took light cuts until I just cleaned up the purple
heart and stopped. The reason for leaving the purple heart is because I
want this species wood in the center of my finished board when it's completed.
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Anyways, then I cut another piece of black walnut, jointed both sides, and glued
it back together.
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What you see here is the new piece a little thicker than the rest of my
work piece. No big deal because I just placed it back in my thickness
planer and brought it all down to my target dimension.
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On my last pass, I placed each work piece end-to-end to minimize snipe.
I've done this method before and it's worked really well.
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