Michael Press asks:

ou risk getting the faces out of parallel of course (how
often would this happen?)

Probably 87% of the time.

I know you can use the jointer to taper a board by starting or ending
a board short of one end. So if you're thicknessing with the jointer
and the 2 faces are getting out of parallel, can't you use the
tapering technique to reduce width on the wider side? It's a hack for
sure, but seems like it might suffice.

It's your life. How you spend it is your business. You have no way of measuring
the wedge, before or during, that would be effective, nor is it every easy to
take off a prescribed varying thickness slice across the board.



Charlie Self
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