Jacob Reverb
08-06-2009, 4:06 PM
Hey, all,
I'm getting ready to make a trestle table from quarter-sawn white oak.
To choose which boards should go where in the tabletop, I ran them through the planer so I could get at least a clue at what the fleck and grain looked like underneath.
I'm accustomed to working with pine, and in the past when I've glued up tabletops, I would generally leave them fairly rough and then level everything after glueup with a jack plane and jointer plane.
I've never glued up at tabletop with QSWO, however, and I'm wondering whether I should try to get a decent surface before glue-up to avoid a lot of difficult hand-planing (and possible tearout and other complications) later.
Does anyone have any advice for a n00b on this?
(I'm also planning to cover my black-iron pipe clamps with blue painters tape to avoid the glue-rust-tannin mess that you can get with WO and iron and glue...and planning to use Titebond II for glueup...)
TIA for any help.
I'm getting ready to make a trestle table from quarter-sawn white oak.
To choose which boards should go where in the tabletop, I ran them through the planer so I could get at least a clue at what the fleck and grain looked like underneath.
I'm accustomed to working with pine, and in the past when I've glued up tabletops, I would generally leave them fairly rough and then level everything after glueup with a jack plane and jointer plane.
I've never glued up at tabletop with QSWO, however, and I'm wondering whether I should try to get a decent surface before glue-up to avoid a lot of difficult hand-planing (and possible tearout and other complications) later.
Does anyone have any advice for a n00b on this?
(I'm also planning to cover my black-iron pipe clamps with blue painters tape to avoid the glue-rust-tannin mess that you can get with WO and iron and glue...and planning to use Titebond II for glueup...)
TIA for any help.