Wood Preparation
Your benchtop planer takes a beating in normal use. Give it routine maintenance for glassy-smooth results board after board.
There's no such thing as the perfect board. But you can salvage a lot of "challenged" lumber using these tricks.
The WOOD team spends the day at Senior Design Editor Kevin Boyle's home, milling lumber from logs.
Learn how to mill your own lumber using the Wood-Mizer portable sawmill. WOOD magazine's John Olson
How can I locate a mill in my area—preferably a portable one that can come to my place and cut the logs on-site?
I need to make a half-dozen 8"-diameter wood discs. My router trammel and bandsaw circle-cutting jig each require a hole for a pivot point. How can I cut these discs and leave both faces clean?
I’ll need to resaw the 3"-thick slab to create the two seat planks, but how can I do that without the bandsaw’s table damaging the natural edges?
I’m suddenly seeing ripples along edges of boards after I joint them. Because this never used to happen, and I don’t think my technique has changed, I’m at a loss. What’s wrong?
Is it okay to run plywood through a planer?
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