Laminating with short boards
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30 October 2023 at 10:05 am #817523
I have some short oak boards I want to use for a table top. The boards are 60 x 7 x 2 cm, and the table top I want to make is around 100 by 60 cm.
The issue I have is that if the boards aren’t exactly equal width after planing, I can’t glue then up in one go as there will be space between two parallel boards near the butt joints. My current approach is to glue them one layer at the time, planing the new edge straight between sessions after the glue has set.
Is there a faster method? Is there a way to plane 14 board dead to size? Or even only 3 pieces as that ‘s the max in one row? I tried clamping them together, but I find it hard to plane them all dead parallel. It doesn’t take much to be out by 0.2 mm end to end, which you wouldn’t see if it’s one board, but stands out near the butt joints as described above.
Any thoughts?
Apologies if this has been asked before, I couldn’t find an answer here.
- This topic was modified 6 months ago by Mic van Reijen.
30 October 2023 at 4:00 pm #817529I think I might use half laps to join the longer boards. Cut precise laps with tight knife walls and the joints will be good. I’d also plane the end grain. Using a shooting board. I’d cut the joinery after they are planed to thickness.
2 November 2023 at 9:04 pm #817956(double post, sorry, deleted, see below)
- This reply was modified 6 months ago by Roberto Fischer.
- This reply was modified 6 months ago by Roberto Fischer.
2 November 2023 at 9:08 pm #817957You can make a jig that the plane edge rides on, but not the blade, to make all boards have identical widths. Like this, but tall: https://paulsellers.com/2018/08/thickness-planing-is-great-hand-planing-skill/
You’ll have to make sure this is perfectly parallel, though, which is critical. Any error here would be a gap.
The way I’d do it is to glue everything in pairs, then it all together at the end like how you described.
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