Greetings All, I have a wall of app 70 square feet that my wife wants covered in hickory. She has her heart set on hickory T&G that she wants me to mill up. Here's my conundrum. The local hardwood store has stock already milled to 3/4, but she really wants me to cut it in half down to 3/8 so it won't be too expensive. I can see 3 options, maybe someone out there can shed some light on this for me. Option #1 is after squaring up, I could use my Unisaw to rip the boards in half to 3/8 and then run them through a planer to get a consistent thickness. My problem is that after the saw kerf there won't be much left to plane down and I think the minimum thickness is
3/8 for the planer. Option #2 is square up the 3/4 stock and still use the Uni to get them to 3/8. But then run them under a drum sander which seems like a better choice than the planer. Option #3 would be to resaw to 3/8 using a band saw and then drum sand down to 3/8. My predicament is I have neither the drum sander nor band saw, but will be able to buy one of these if needed. Would you get the band saw or the drum sander? Or is there another way that I haven't thought about? BTW, I have a Unisaw, DJ20 jointer and DeWalt 735 planer so far. Many TIA, Mark- posted
18 years ago