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Anthony Greitzer
3 February 2016 at 2:22 am #134442

I’ve been flattening boards and gluing them up to make panels for dovetail boxes and chests for almost a year. I’ve worked only with pine and recently tried some red oak. This weekend I spent close to 11 hours flattening the 2 pin boards only to have the project ruined yesterday when 1 of the boards cracked. Not willing to resize the pin boards, I moved on and started a new dovetail box with cedar while deciding I will NOT be working with red oak in the near or distant future. I’ll save the boards and will use them for lids or maybe raised panels. My dovetailing, flattening, straightening, sharpening, and squaring skills are adequate for pine. Red oak? Different challenge.