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Post by blacknail on Jan 30, 2015 20:57:43 GMT -5
Is there any wiggle room with nafa regs with thickness? Takes a long time going from 1n1/8 to 3/8 when surfacing my basswood for mink and rat boards. Do fox coon and yotes have to be 1/2. Making a lot of shavings!!
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Post by silverfox on Jan 31, 2015 6:30:53 GMT -5
all i can tell ya is i use 3 quarter inch (didnt have a planer when i built em) for my wooden stretchers and have gotten 2 species of top lot using them, the thinner looks nice, the thicker if anything proly loses you some "square inch" fur but it would be minimal at best, i think the width of your stretchers is more important (of course 1 1-8th is pretty thick)
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Post by rendezvous on Jan 31, 2015 7:44:02 GMT -5
I was given some clear basswood boards, all 8 boards were 6"-10" wide, 3/4" thick. I took them to a local millwork and cabinetry shop, $15 to have them planed and sanded. Saved a lot of work!
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Post by wcs on Jan 31, 2015 7:45:57 GMT -5
I have coon boards that I made myself along with ones that I purchased. The boards I made are thicker and I have not seen a differnce in my grades or prices. Just get them as close as possible.
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Post by tmc on Jan 31, 2015 8:00:51 GMT -5
In a perfect world where there's no loss from the kerf in sawing boards, those 1-1/8" boards would yield three (3), 3/8" boards... but I'd bandsaw them in half (thickness) and take them to a lumber yard or millwork shop and rendezvous said and have them thickness planed. It's well worth the money. If you don't have access to a bandsaw, just have it done there at the same time. >clink! clink!< two cents deposited.
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Post by tmc on Jan 31, 2015 8:03:40 GMT -5
And, there'd be a LOT!!! less waste that way; you're losing a LOT of wood just trying to thin them down the way you're doing it. You'd end up with twice as much wood, twice the number of drying boards, the way I suggested.
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Post by blacknail on Jan 31, 2015 8:28:16 GMT -5
I have been thinking about trying to rip a piece. My planner only takes a 1/16 a pass. Trying to go any more is just too hard on it. I'm using stretcher boards that I bought, one for each specie for templates. One of my winter projects. Thanks for the info my friends!
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