Take your jointer and planer width limitations into account.

Usually the boards fall within the width of your jointer, and the initial
glueup of panels fall within the limitation of you planer.

IOW, if I was going to do it in my shop, I'd keep the board width less than
six inches, and glue up two panels, each less than 13 inches wide, into a
larger panel, slightly wider than your final width.

I find I get a much nicer and flatter panel glue up by doing it in two
stages, instead of one ... this is just my preference and, as always, the
proverbial YMMV applies.

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"James "Cubby" Culbertson" wrote in message

Hiya All,
I'm getting ready to build a couple of hutches out of pine. I'm going
to be having to glue up panels for the sides. Is there a general
formula for how large your boards for glueing up can be? For
instance, let's say the panel is to be 18" wide. Is it acceptable to
use two 9" wide boards? 3-6" boards? etc.... Given the pine will
show (ie. no painting), I want to minimize grain changes etc and
gluing up two boards might be more beneficial for that. I've done a
number of glue-ups like this before, but I always used plans that have
told me how wide my boards should be for the panel. These do not.
Thanks very much for any help!!!!!
Cheers,
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