Susumu Mori
04-04-2015, 5:48 PM
I have a very nice wide board (don't know the species) and I want to use it for a table top.
I tried to maximize the yield but there are sections which are warped and if I want to completely plane out these portions, the board would get too thin. I can rip them into narrower widths but it is inevitable to have some portion thinner than half inch, while I want to keep the thickness more than 3/4.
After the face joint, I used to use a thickness planer to get a uniform thickness for all strips and edge joint. However, since I started to use Domino, I noticed that I can get a nice flat surface as long as one face is nice and flat; no need for a planer anymore. Of course, this approach can only hide imperfection for middle sections, and the two edges of each stock need to have uniform thickness because uneven thicknesses among the strips would show in the end-grain side of the table top.
Then it occurred to me; I can hide the uneven thickness by breadboard ends; all I need are, two strips of wood with a uniform thickness at the two parallel sides of the table and two breadboard ends with the same thickness. All the other strips in the middle section need to have only one nice face and thickness is no longer an issue.
Am I missing something? Have you ever done it?
I tried to maximize the yield but there are sections which are warped and if I want to completely plane out these portions, the board would get too thin. I can rip them into narrower widths but it is inevitable to have some portion thinner than half inch, while I want to keep the thickness more than 3/4.
After the face joint, I used to use a thickness planer to get a uniform thickness for all strips and edge joint. However, since I started to use Domino, I noticed that I can get a nice flat surface as long as one face is nice and flat; no need for a planer anymore. Of course, this approach can only hide imperfection for middle sections, and the two edges of each stock need to have uniform thickness because uneven thicknesses among the strips would show in the end-grain side of the table top.
Then it occurred to me; I can hide the uneven thickness by breadboard ends; all I need are, two strips of wood with a uniform thickness at the two parallel sides of the table and two breadboard ends with the same thickness. All the other strips in the middle section need to have only one nice face and thickness is no longer an issue.
Am I missing something? Have you ever done it?