Hi guys.
I am a total Neanderthal. I don't use a single power tool in my current shop. My experience with powertools is limited mostly to occasional use in other people's shops, and to small portable tools like jigsaws and the like.
This means that I'm more ignorant than I care to admit about modern methods.
Sometimes, I wonder how very basic operations are done in a modern way, and what the standard practices are for power tool based methods.
For instance, I noticed that when I get boards planed, even straight from the mill, they often come slightly twisted, or bowed, etc.
It seems that your average planer doesn't produce a perfectly flat and twist free board. Now, I am aware that wood will twist and warp even after being planed, even by hand, but this isn't what I mean. I mean, I've just never received a board that I would call truly flat, even when I just had it run through a planer for me. It's always close, but not entirely flat. I always flatten it the rest of the way by hand with a couple of hand planes.
How do you correct this with power tools? Do you just use a better planer of some type? Do you use some other tools? Or do you not even bother with correcting minor twist or bowing it for most work?
I don't need to know this practically speaking because I don't even have room for a single planer or table saw in my shop, but I'd like to be a little less ignorant at least!