When I work with quarter sawn oak I always buy 4/4. Make the mistake of buying some walnut that looked pretty good, good price, but was S2S, and for me it is virtually unusable.

One @ 8" wide board cut down to 30" pieces and so bowed and twisted I am having trouble getting one side flat. Using a Grizzly G0586 and have used it since I became a woodworker. No problem. It is square and flat. Not every piece, but the wood is only 13/16" thick or a little over this. Building some end tables out of this and my plan is the mill as flat as I can until I have enough left to run the other side through the planer and then hide the non flat side on the inside skirts, bottoms of tops, etc... Don't know how else to salvage it. Thanks for letting me vent. Brian

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