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Hi all,
I feel that I have to say something regarding this topic.
First of all I’m looking forward to see the table series. I guess I won’t build the coffee table, but I have to build a writing desk and I assume that I can use a lot of the techniques and ideas we will see in the future.
But I’m struggling a lot with buying wood. My experience is, that in Germany working wood is not popular like in the US for example.
The lumberyards here are more for professionals than for private woodworkers. So as Florian said in his post. The thinnest lumber you can get is 1″. And this a rough board so that you have to prepare it before you can start your work (no problem with pine and spruce).
It would be great if there would be a video how to deal with that. And no, I did not have thickness planer.
I think about building the table in beech, which I personally like more than oak. And beech is more often available as pre dimensioned lumber.
@ Florian
For a table it might be that predefined moldings are an alternative. But of course you have to glue panels from it.
In my area you can buy moldings in oak and beach up to 20mm x 100mm (sometimes 120mm).
Why I’m writing this all? For me it looks that you guys in the UK or US are in “wood heaven”. But maybe that is a wrong impression.
But at the moment I’m thinking more about where to by lumber than how to cut a dovetail (I’m not good at this 🙂 )
And I would like to let you Joseph and Paul know about this. Maybe you can integrate wood preparation in your woodworking masterclasses.
Thanks for your attention 😉
Have a good night guys.
Stefan
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