Martin Rock
11-29-2011, 8:31 PM
Hi All
Today I have cut a nice 14" in diameter, 12 long beech log into moulding plane blanks and two medium size wooden plane (probably smoothing and scraping plane)
The blanks are quarter sawn, About half of the log was heartwood.
While having fun at the bandsaw I noticed that the blanks where compose about 50% heart wood 50% sapwood.
Is this something to worry about?, Is heart wood prefered to sapwood for wooden plane? My plan is to keep the heartwood for the sole of the plane.
Anyway it is too late know, I could not have done it otherwise, but would like to know for next time, maybe looking for that log that has more heartwood to offer.
thanks for comments
Martin
Today I have cut a nice 14" in diameter, 12 long beech log into moulding plane blanks and two medium size wooden plane (probably smoothing and scraping plane)
The blanks are quarter sawn, About half of the log was heartwood.
While having fun at the bandsaw I noticed that the blanks where compose about 50% heart wood 50% sapwood.
Is this something to worry about?, Is heart wood prefered to sapwood for wooden plane? My plan is to keep the heartwood for the sole of the plane.
Anyway it is too late know, I could not have done it otherwise, but would like to know for next time, maybe looking for that log that has more heartwood to offer.
thanks for comments
Martin