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Sounds like the boards need to be ran through the jointer.
very very slight movements of the wood while your cutting it can make the two sawn edges ever so slightly off. The edge may be perfectly smooth due to new saw blade technology but they are not perfectly flat.

No matter what the ad hype the jointer still has a valued place in a the shop.

In fact I almost say a jointer is a mandatory tool in a wood working shop.

You can use an axe to cut the wood and a jointer will clean it up to become fine furniture grade cut.

Beeg, are you talking about a lift at the glue joint. If so, I have the same problem. Woodmag.com shows some edge joining techniques that help with that. But, as Ed says, I always run my edges over the jointer, even though they say you don't need to.

This is the video I was talking about. Hope this works.

http://www.woodmagazine.com/woodvision/?lid=1339078484

Bob

That might be a good place to use that biscuit joiner you have in your list of tools.

Mark

mbcabinetmaker wrote:Bob

That might be a good place to use that biscuit joiner you have in your list of tools.

Mark

I DID use it, that's what is so frustrating.

You could use the 2 way clamps from Shopsmith. They work.

Dicksterp's comment got me to thinking. So I went to SS site to look at clamps and realized I had a set of the double bar clamps. I never realized until now, that they were shopsmith. Heck I could have used these, forgot I even had them.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/catalog/mvclamp_doublebar.htm

shydragon wrote:Beeg, are you talking about a lift at the glue joint. If so, I have the same problem. Woodmag.com shows some edge joining techniques that help with that. But, as Ed says, I always run my edges over the jointer, even though they say you don't need to.

I guess I have been sleeping like old Rip Van Winkle... I had no idea that jointing had become unnecessary...