Steve Sawyer
12-24-2010, 7:24 PM
I'm working on a pair of oak frame & panel doors for our front hall. I resawed the QS boards for the panels, and got some pretty serious warp in the process. The panels that are about 30" long have a warp of about 3/32" at the center, and the panels that are about 40" long are warped by about 5/16" at the center.
At this point they are rough-sawn and range from 7/16" to 1/2" in thickness. My intent was to run them through the thickness planer to bring them down to 3/8", but if I plane them flat then thickness plane them I'll be lucky to end up with a good piece of veneer!!.
I'm thinking that because they're going to fit into grooves in some pretty stout (1 3/8" thick) stiles which should hold them flat once assembled, that the warp won't be much of an issue if I can get them planed smoothly and get them assembled.
It would seem that if I can get them flat long enough to plane them to a uniform thickness I should be okay.
What do you think of clamping them with the concave surfaces facing together with some dampened paper toweling between them? The concave surface might absorb enough moisture to relieve some of the stress and get them straight enough to run through the planer.
What do you think? Has anyone else run into this issue, and if so, how did you work around it?
Thanks.
At this point they are rough-sawn and range from 7/16" to 1/2" in thickness. My intent was to run them through the thickness planer to bring them down to 3/8", but if I plane them flat then thickness plane them I'll be lucky to end up with a good piece of veneer!!.
I'm thinking that because they're going to fit into grooves in some pretty stout (1 3/8" thick) stiles which should hold them flat once assembled, that the warp won't be much of an issue if I can get them planed smoothly and get them assembled.
It would seem that if I can get them flat long enough to plane them to a uniform thickness I should be okay.
What do you think of clamping them with the concave surfaces facing together with some dampened paper toweling between them? The concave surface might absorb enough moisture to relieve some of the stress and get them straight enough to run through the planer.
What do you think? Has anyone else run into this issue, and if so, how did you work around it?
Thanks.