Reply To: I always end up with a bow on both side of my plank? (Hand Plane)
…whole board. Once you are satisfied with the ‘flatness’ of the board you can set some gauge lines, turn the board over and flatten the other side. You can still…
…whole board. Once you are satisfied with the ‘flatness’ of the board you can set some gauge lines, turn the board over and flatten the other side. You can still…
…two boards down to 7/16″, more than I need, but very close. My current technique involves 4 squaring the board to start off to take out any twist and flatten…
…the boards. The result is not very satisfying since I cannot reasonably plane it to fit (even ignoring the gap), since it would remove too much mass from the breadboard-ends….
…these as practice for a breadboard-end table top, a la Paul’s. I made one pretty dumb mistake in particular. I took a bowl of water with a rag in it…
…boards to make up the bench top as well as the aprons and others. There can be more expansion, contraction and other movement with wider boards than with laminated boards….
…board, which works out at £5.48 per board foot (assuming a 12″ wide board is £18/m, which isn’t true – it’d be more). The coffee table needs 16 board feet…
…diagonal board to the upper and lower Z-boards, or even not join it at all. Finally, the Z-boards are screwed or nailed to each and every vertical board and will…
…two for the board. I had to turn around front and backside of the board a few times, setting it higher a few times and at one point, I had…
…if laying something like a steel ruler (or a suitably shaped shim) on the base board at the right distance from the board holding the workpiece, you’d create the necessary…
…this happened (probably just my inexperience) but I did it along an entire board which I then cut down into smaller sections so the error was present on all boards….