Hello,

This is a question in regards to dealing with a twisted board that is already rough milled.

I purchased some rough tiger maple several years ago. 6′-8′ long, 6″ or so wide and 4/4 thick. The boards have been stickered in my garage, attached to the basement (under my main living area) for all this time with 3/4 plywood sticks. I recently decided to use a a board for a small project and ran into some problems.

The board coming out of my stack was twisted. I am fairly familiar with how to deal with lumber having ‘some’ cup or warp. But this board is not making me happy. I recall recently reading an article in FW on how to deal with these types of issues and figured I dig it up to see if it may help but before I spend a lot of time, maybe ask if I even should atempt it.

I needed a board roughtly 4″ wide and 36″ long 3/4 thick but 5/8 is OK. I brought it into the basement from the garage, same level, but of course not same temp. I did the usual, jointing, then planing using each side so I would take off fairly equal amounts from each side. I got it close to final, 5 1/2″ wide, and 40 long and 7/8 thick. At this time it was perfectly flat. 

Then I left it on top of my planer (on the two roller supports). Things came up and I had to stop for a while. Now I’m at it a few weeks later.  Looking at the board now, it’s twisted again! I should mention, that in RI, it’s been winter for qauite a long time no humidity to speak of.

Sooo, what to do? Since I only need it to be 4″ wide, I figured perhaps I can cut it in 1/2, shorten it a few “, take another 1/4” off the thickness of each 1/2 and glue it back together. However, is there a way I can guestimate if this will work or if I’m just wasting my time?  

Any thoughts, suggestions, comments on the artcile (I still need to find the issue).

Thank you, Gabor