Heath's Woodworking Projects

terrydowning · Post by **terrydowning** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:24 pm

Remember, "Dry" is relative. wood is a fibrous and porus material and as such is subject to environmental changes.

There is a good article in the latest "Fine Wood Working" magazine on making frames and panels that will stay flat. Some things I never considered. Like making sure you rip material completely in line with the grain and taking several days to slowly mill material so it can acclimatize while machining.

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:39 pm

tomsalwasser wrote:...
I have never worked with quartersawn or rift sawn wood because it's expensive and hard to find but I'm going to start looking into it...

If all the wood you find is flat sawn, you can still rip some rift or maybe even quartersawn lumber from the boards you bought.

Look at both ends of a flat sawn board an you will find places where the grain turns down at an angle. This is epically true where the crown of the grain is near one of the board edges.

Mark the board on both ends where the grain slopes steeper than 35 to 40 degrees and rip off that part. Your rip may be at an angle but the new smaller board can still be squared. Then you can make several of these rift/quartersawn smaller boards, you can joint (glue) them together to make a solid and wider board that is all rift/quarter sawn.

tomsalwasser · Post by **tomsalwasser** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:31 pm

terrydowning wrote:There is a good article in the latest "Fine Wood Working" magazine on making frames and panels that will stay flat. Some things I never considered. Like making sure you rip material completely in line with the grain and taking several days to slowly mill material so it can acclimatize while machining.

Thanks Terry I'm going to check into that article...

heathicus · Post by **heathicus** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:02 pm

Who has several days just to mill material for a project?

terrydowning · Post by **terrydowning** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:15 pm

I'm just pointing out what the article said.

It's been years since I last did any kind of panel or door work.

mrhart · Post by **mrhart** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:17 pm

heathicus wrote:Who has several days just to mill material for a project?

The pics you attached won't show while I'm at work, but when I get home I can view them. I see it once in a while on various threads, why for is this?? And actually its the same laptop at both locations.

terrydowning · Post by **terrydowning** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:21 pm

methinks corporate firewall.

heathicus · Post by **heathicus** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:07 pm

My pictures are hosted at Photobucket and your work might have that site blocked. See if you can access this link: http://www.photobucket.com

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 12:44 am

heathicus wrote:Who has several days just to mill material for a project?

Pretty common in this shop!:) That's part of the fun! Getting the right wood for a project.

mrhart · Post by **mrhart** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:10 am

heathicus wrote:My pictures are hosted at Photobucket and your work might have that site blocked. See if you can access this link: http://www.photobucket.com

The requested page is currently unavailable
Your organization has chosen to limit viewing of this site (http://www.photobucket.com/), due to the rating of its content (image host).

There you have it.