wrote:

Rough sawn wood from the mill is a new venture for me in my learning
curve so I was under the impression that once I get the piece home
from the mill I take it down with the planer and then sand and finish
it. Or is this not the process? (Granted that the piece I get home is
free of defects)

Thanks for the help,

Matt
http://cutterscove.blogspot.com/

Nope. Let it sit around your castle for a couple of weeks so it can
acclimate to your humidity level. Then you have to establish one
straight edge and one straight face somehow. There are Neanderthal ways
of doing this and mechanized ways. Choose at least one. Every other
dimension in some way references those two surfaces. They need to be
flat and, normally, they need to be at 90 deg to each other. That gives
you a reference surface in two planes. Lop off an end at 90 deg. to BOTH
of those faces and you have your third plane. Now, go forth and create!

Hopefully helpful,

Bill

--
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject
is worth a **** unless backed up with enough genuine information to make
him really know what he's talking about.

H. P. Lovecraft

http://nmwoodworks.com


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