RE: Squaring Rough Lumber

[Doug Winterburn]

I saw you saw that lumber. You were seen you sawing that lumber.

I'm getting a headache...

[Doug Miller]

OK, then, if "saw" follows the same rules as "blow":

- Saw the tree down.

- The logger sew the tree down. Oops. I don't think that works.

There's nothing wrong with saying "The tree was sawed down, and then the log was sawed into boards."

[Doug Winterburn]

Wouldn't that be sawed down and then sawed up?

[-MIKE-]

Get it right, man.... sheesh..... Moose, moosen or meese box, boxen

Whatever you call it, it's fun to get blowed.

[Robatoy]

I know of Three little pigs who would disagree with that.... well two of them anyway..

[J. Clarke]

I thought "meeses" was the plural of mouse. At least that's what Hannah Barbera would have led one to believe.

[Jack Stein]

Getting blown doesn't suck much either...

[Matt]

Oh for heaven's sake - just cut the damn stuff! :-)

[Doug Miller]

Yeah, that gets confusing. If more than one mouse is "mice", is more than one spouse, "spice"?

[Noons]

Doug Miller wrote,on my timestamp of 17/06/2011 1:04 PM:

"i" before "e" except after "c". Just like in "weird science". It's all simple and logical. (NOT!) ;)

[-MIKE-]

That's great.

From my favorite comedian, Brian Regan... "I before e except after c and when sounding like 'A' as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!"

[Noons]

-MIKE- wrote,on my timestamp of 17/06/2011 1:40 PM:

LOL! Awesome!

[Larry Jaques]

"I" before "e", except after "c". What a weird society.

-- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -- Mahatma Gandhi

[beecrofter]

Oh so much for winding sticks, adze and broad axe.

[Larry Jaques]

Hey, hey, hey! You can't call 'em "broads" any more. Watch it.

-- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -- Mahatma Gandhi

[Larry Blanchard]

You beat me to it :-).

[Father Haskell]

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Plane one side flat with a #5, 6, 7, or 8 jack, fore, or jointer, cupped or bowed side down, shims underneath to support the board if necessary. Check for twist with a pair of winding sticks. Use a scratch gauge to establish the opposite side, then plane until the iron just splits the scratch lines.

For the edges, plane one edge straight, though not necessarily square to the adjacent faces. You only need a straight corner to run against the table saw fence. Rip the opposite side an eighth or so over, then turn the board and rip the planed, though not necessarily square edge true.

If the iron was sharp, you're done. The guy with the power jointer and planer now gets to sand, using 80 or 100 grit to remove the washboard marks and succeeding grits up to 220 to remove the scratch marks from the coarser grits.

[Morgans]

"Puckdropper" wrote

Could you elaborate a bit on that technique? My technique is pretty much home schooled as well, and I'd like to try to improve it.

The biggest problem I see is people pushing down on the lumber on the infeed side. Once there is a few inches on the outfeed table, put all the pressure on the outfeed.

-- Jim in NC

[Lew Hodgett]

------------------------------------- The dedicated jointer paddle complete with hook cleat on it's aft end addresses this issue directly.

Lew

[Pete S]

Doug Miller, I think, said that his machine had "AN aluminum bed---". If that bed is all at the same height, both infeed and outfeed ends, then it IS a planer, isn't it? A jointer has two separate beds (tables). The infeed is usually set a little lower than the outfeed. The cutter head is set at the same height as the outfeed.

Pete Stanaitis