Greetings All,
I have a wall of app 70 square feet that my wife wants covered in
hickory. She has her heart set on hickory T&G that she wants me to mill
up. Here's my conundrum. The local hardwood store has stock already
milled to 3/4, but she really wants me to cut it in half down to 3/8 so
it won't be too expensive.
I can see 3 options, maybe someone out there can shed some light on
this for me. Option #1 is after squaring up, I could use my Unisaw to
rip the boards in half to 3/8 and then run them through a planer to get
a consistent thickness. My problem is that after the saw kerf there
won't be much left to plane down and I think the minimum thickness is
3/8 for the planer. Option #2 is square up the 3/4 stock and still use
the Uni to get them to 3/8. But then run them under a drum sander which
seems like a better choice than the planer. Option #3 would be to resaw
to 3/8 using a band saw and then drum sand down to 3/8.
My predicament is I have neither the drum sander nor band saw, but
will be able to buy one of these if needed. Would you get the band saw
or the drum sander? Or is there another way that I haven't thought
about? BTW, I have a Unisaw, DJ20 jointer and DeWalt 735 planer so far.
Many TIA, Mark