Specific Boards That Do Not Plane
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Hi everyone
When I last went to the wood place I bought two 8×1 boards. One of them I got them to run it through the thickness planer because I needed it to be less thick, the other one I left as it was.
Now the one that I got planed, its absolutely fine and I couldn’t ask for better. However the one I left as is, its developed quite a big bow in it along its length and its very hard to plane for some reason, in any direction. Plane is sharp and it planes everything else beautifully.
Any of you ever experienced anything like this?
I bought almost 50 bs ft of 8/4 maple locally grown, from a lumber yard in north Alabama. My desire was to construct a workbench top. It machine planned well, but when I went to do the final dressing it was worse than the Seppele(?) mahogany that Paul used in the tool chest video.
I butchered the top, it seemed that every plank changed direction two or three times in the 84″ length. Even with a razor sharp no.4, the chip out was disastrous.
Oh well, I have been looking for a reason to sharpen and try out the no80 scraper I have never used.
I have been fighting some aromatic cedar for a little while now, not much…just over 6 bf. Knots, hard grain going into softer grain, reverse grain. This wood has thrown everything at me! The worst is tear out, sometimes up to an eighth of an inch maybe a little more when i accidentally tear into some rising grain before a knot or what have you.
I came to the realization that the No. 80 was basically going to save my project, got one in the mail shortly after. To combat this ridiculously deep tear out i would actually almost completely ignore the direction of the grain as it presented itself. Instead i found that skewing my plane and running it tangentially or completely perpendicular to the grain resulted in….tear out, BUT it was significantly less! So much less in fact that just a few passes with the cabinet scraper would take it out completely.
Project back on tract, couldn’t be happier. 🙂 -
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