If you've bought mail-order lumber (e.g. Wall Lumber, Badger Hardwood, etc.) and they said it was S2S, did they dress a face and an edge, or did they dress both faces?
DAGS on "S2S" and I found conflicting definitions of S2S. Thought I'd ask someone who's actually bought it, what arrived?
Gracias!
I don't order wood, but two other terms worth mentioning are "hit and miss," which is often associated with S2S, and appears equivalent to what I learned as "skip-planed." Double-sided planers give boards which are not perfectly surfaced, having the occasional low spot, but are done by the mill to accommodate optical piecing machinery, where the knots and defect are revealed well enough to be cut away by automatic saws. Amounts usually to a
7/8 board sold as 4/4, where a properly surfaced S2S would yield 13/16.If I were a betting man, I'd wager that most furniture places take the pieces and run 'em through two-sided thickness sanders.
The edges on an S2S board need only be what came from the original edger, and may, IIRC still have some wane.
Bought from AdvantageLumber and specified "S2S" - surface 2 sides, then added "plus one edge". Quite pleased w/them.
S2S refers to the faces, not the edges.
Renata
Down here it's called "S2S1E"
I just received 20 bdft of 4/4 white oak and 20 bdft of 4/4 hard maple from
Erik
I followed your link and found their walnut was more than I just paid locally! I feel a little better.
Thank you! Have also heard good things about Advantage.
Thanks Erik - I'm in a different spot. Have a jointer but no planer. Thus my interest in S2S vs. S2S1E.
Where abouts are you, Wade? I'm in the Seattle, Redmond area. BTW, now I've got a bunch of 4/4 I need to get resawn *^%%$#*^%. It's to damn thick for what I need. A local cabinet shop said they will do it and resurface for $60/hr. Said it'll take 20-30 minutes.
Erik
What lumber did you buy, how much per b/f and shipping cost? Is it really worth it?
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