For the thicker pieces that needed to be thinner they often had it resawed
at the mill.
Some did their own resawing. I know the Japanese can do it better than many
bandsaws.

--
Young Carpenter

"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"

"Dennis M. O'Connor" wrote in message
...
I'm curious:
Before the wonder of powered rotating blades,
how did woodworkers do the equivalent of
milling the face of a board with a jointer and
planing to a uniform thickness with a thickness planer ?

I've thunk and thunk till my thunker was sore,
and I just can't figure how you could do it.
But there must be a way, right ?

'Course, I'd just use the big power tools,
because I love using big power tools. :-)
--
Dennis M. O'Connor
But there's no woodworking function for
a skid-steer front-loader.







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