Jointer, planer, or sanded?

[Michael Costa]

Hey everyone.

I have a couple 4 foot lengths of figured bloodwood that I want to make cribbage board out of. The stock is 4/4 and surfaced on all 4 sides.

I would like to glue up pieces face to face but due to slight warping I cant do that as is. Should I flatten these out on my jointer, run them through the planer, or take them back to the lumber store and have them sand the boards flat?

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Jointer first on one side, then match the other side with the thickness planer.

[glenn bradley]

When I glue up a blank to make a larger piece to mill down I make is over-sized in each dimension. So, with your material I would joint two faces true and glue those faces together. With the figured material one hope for an insert head. I would then joint one face of the resulting blank true, use it as a reference surface to plane the opposite side parallel. I would then remove material from alternate sides till I had my thickness. Now you can joint one edge perpendicular to the faces, rip to width and crosscut to length.