48 inch resaw not dead straight? Strap it down!
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:53 am
Lately I've been making a set of shelves for my (now being used more!) "home office". In this case 95% of the wood is reclaimed from dumpsters or antique mall slabs. In particular, I had sliced a big 48"-long 8/4 oak beam into 6 planks. The resawing at the bandsaw saw a good deal of released tension, so the outcomes were essentially "bowed" "barrel stave like" planks.
In my pea brain I thought of making some "straps" to restrain those staves:
The proof of concept is working out decently; I'm nearing the end but I have to make all straps uniform and perhaps add a tad of counterboring. Anyway, the goal of reining in the bowed side-planks is working. Better I thought to do this than to shave each plank down to nothing on the jointer:
Let us not fail to credit inspiration from growing up in a TV repair shop...
Happy woodworking!
Chris
In my pea brain I thought of making some "straps" to restrain those staves:
- Kerfing w Blue Tape.jpg (159.33 KiB) Viewed 5961 times
- Chipping out Straps.jpg (156.05 KiB) Viewed 5961 times
The proof of concept is working out decently; I'm nearing the end but I have to make all straps uniform and perhaps add a tad of counterboring. Anyway, the goal of reining in the bowed side-planks is working. Better I thought to do this than to shave each plank down to nothing on the jointer:
- StrapTests.jpg (357.24 KiB) Viewed 5961 times
Let us not fail to credit inspiration from growing up in a TV repair shop...
- Old TV Stand from Web.jpg (96.13 KiB) Viewed 5961 times
Happy woodworking!
Chris