On 18 Sep 2003 12:27:29 -0700, (vegasdave) wrote:

I want to make my own flooring tiles from wood

Don't.

Making tiles is a job for huge presses. If you want to lay your floor
from timber au naturel, lay it as strips. You'll need a spindle
moulder to machine the edges, so you'd probably do this by
subcontracting to a joiner's shop with the right machine.

Unless you've grown your own timber for this, I don't see the
economics of it anyway. There's a big market in ready-machined wood
flooring these days, of all qualities, and the prices are competitive.
My cheapest local source of maple is to buy it as 3/4" finished boards
from a flooring maker, and machine the T&G off !