Always a good day when I have an excuse to use my planer!
From rough, splintery 1x3 stock...
...to finished-enough boards ready for building!
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That is very satisfying.
💯!
Bonus: the planer is the only tool I have that I'm not scared of!
I'm always very careful with my table saw and mitre saw, but it's crazy how badly you can wreck yourself with them.
*er, that's 2x3 stock.
I appreciate your dedication to quality, build on!
Beautifully planed! Do you have the straight blade or the spiral head? It looks too good of a surface to be a flat blade 🤔
Flat blade! Still the stock Dewalt blade it came with. It's really soft pine.
Oh nice, I figured that nasty knot would have caused trouble with all kind of tear out with just a flat blade. It seems that the fuss about the DW735 is well justified!
What are you planning to build?
If I had planned better, I would have taken a direct before / after, but these pics are two different random sections. But on brief inspection, I didn't notice any big problem areas after running them through.
It definitely isn't perfect, but more than good enough for what I need!
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The project is for my niece. Framing a piece of 4'x6' 3/4" plywood to be a kind of mini stage -- but the plywood is a bit warped. I figure I'll cut a channel into these and frame the plywood with them, forcing the plywood to seat flat in the channel.
Or maybe I'm over-thinking it. I tend to avoid screws in my construction now, but I could just build an under frame for it and screw it down. Hmmm.
The channel approach has the added benefit of concealing and protecting the plywood edges. It'll certainly look better that way.
Still leaning towards channel.
Okay, maybe new plan: Do the simpler underneath frame.
Seal the plywood edges with drywall mud. Then paint the edges and outer frame.
That'll make the final step simpler: gluing on vinyl sheet flooring and trimming it to size
Instead of screens, maybe glue and a lot of clamps? Ply isn't that strong when it bows, so it should be feasible
Glue def happening no matter which approach.
I did try flattening some of the cupping yesterday. Sprayed water on the cupped side, flipped it over and weighed it all down. After an hour it was a lot better. We'll see how much it reverts today.
I ended up ripping the 2x3s in half to do the under frame approach. One more round of planing to make them uniform. They're down to about 1.5"x1" at this point but feel sturdy enough to do the job.
Gotta love some nice woodworking