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27 February 2020 at 5:29 am #650745
I’ll second the recommendation for poplar, if you can get it. In California it is almost as cheap as decent quality pine.
As for working with pine, I don’t sharpen or set up my tools any differently, but I do make sure I keep them sharp. As soon as they start feeling dull stop and sharpen. Since pine is soft, I do sneak up to the line when chopping. I’ll make my first chop a little bit off the line, remove waste, then come back and chop right on the line. It is easy to move your line if you get too aggressive. I also try to be careful with my last few chops that finish removing the dovetail waste. If you try to do it with one big chop you can tear a chunk from the middle of the board. It will be hidden in the joint, so it doesn’t really hurt anything, but I’ll slow down and take few more lighter chops at the very end to get a cleaner cut.
I really like planing pine. I find it to plane really well with a sharp tool.
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