I just bought 33 board feet of random width cherry for several projects. This is the first wood I've ever bought outside of Home Depot and Lowes.
It is 13/16" thick, and some, if not all, of the boards have lines on them that I assume are from where they were planed.
So is my next step to stop on the way home and buy a planer to put a smooth finish on these boards? I know I could do it with sand paper. I assume I could do it with a jack plane. But that's a WHOLE lot of sanding and/or hand planing.
I kind of thought that I might get an electric planer when I started these projects, just to thin some of the boards. But now I'm thinking it's necessary to smooth these things out.
Am I approaching this correctly?
Thanks,
--Michael