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Hello everyone,
Thanks for the tips.
Now I have another problem… I dimensioned the boards as you indicated, and it actually went very well.
I reduced them to the desired thickness (25mm), and then glued them two by two, long grain to long grain, because the furniture I am making has to be 40cm deep.
After gluing them, I just planed some parts, and everything was fine. I finished that yesterday.
This morning I went and they are cupped again!
The garage where I work is not thermally insulated, and I often work with the door open.
At the moment we are experiencing a big heat wave, with temperatures of 40 degrees.
The humidity is around 40% at most.
When I started working on these boards (a couple of weeks ago), the temperature was normal (below 30 degrees), and with a little more humidity.
At night I leave the boards resting up high, slightly tilted against the wall, so that the 4 faces get air circulation.
The floor of the garage is concrete.
Is it because of this heat wave that the boards are cupped?
I confess it’s demoralizing, especially as I have no joiner or thickness planner, and everything has been dimensioned in a workmanlike way. with hand tools (scrib plane, smoothing plane, etc.I only have a bandsaw.
Will they return to their normal state when the heatwave passes?
I just feel like leaving this project and telling the client that I can’t do it, under these working conditions 🙁