I am looking for 3/4 rough stock for a few projects I will be starting soon. I will end need the finish boards to be 3/8 in thickness. Any ideas? I wood (pun completely intended) hate to plane down 5/4 and waste all the wood, plus my bandsaw can’t handle the re-saw of this.
Looking for 200 bdf of thin hardwood.
P-Diddy
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P-Diddy,
You should be able to get 3/4" out of 4/4 rough stock.
Jim
How wide are the boards? Can you resaw them on the table saw? Perhaps resaw from each edge of the board and finish off with the bandsaw.
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P,
If you look around, you can probably find another reasonable woodworker in your neighborhood who would be willing to resaw a few 4/4 planks for you. In fact, if you can get the 5/4 you need; and it's properly dried; and you can find a talented helpful friend - you could get three runs of 3/8ths finished stock out of it. Exchange of labor and favors is a time-honored woodworking concept.
Never will you get 3 boards 3/8ths thick from one real world 5/4 hardwood board--no matter how talented the resawer. Do do that, you would have to be able to get 1 board dressed to exactly 1 1/4" thick, which is extremely unlikely, and then you would have only only 1/16" for each kerf--including the planing. Even more unlikely.
You're probably right. I wrote that at the end of a long day. However, you might be surprised at what you can squeeze out of a board if you're lucky. The other point I'd offer in defense of my suggestion is that I usually consider thickness to be nominal, particularly on the front end of a project. Once things are going together, fit limits your flexibility; but, at the begining, 5/16ths isn't much of a departure from 3/8ths. Verne
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cross,
In a pinch I've taken 6/4 and run it twice through the TS, about 7" wide boards...1/2" thick
Try you local hardwood supplier. Many carry 'thin' sliced woods. Maybe surfaced two sides from cut-offs? My supplier does have some but not in all woods.
Just a thought. At 200 bf you may get a response rather than a no?
Edited 1/7/2009 7:22 am by WillGeorge
3/8" is not a very popular thickness to stock, but my local lumber supplier usually has some for their clients' projects. Check around--you may be better off going for some 1/2" stock and planing that down rather than trying to buy 4/4 or 5/4 and resawing and planing. What is it you are trying to do?
You don't mention what tools you have for finishing stock. If you get 4/4 rough and plane it down that's still a lot of waste. If you get 5/4 rough and rip that would do it. I'm ssuming you have a jointer etc. Alternatively look for a supplier close that would do the work for you. They will charge you shop time, but it might be worth it to get the stock ready. Just remember to let it set stickered if you do, so it will aclimate to your environment prior to use. Otherwise funky things can occur.
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Thanks everyone for the advice. I will call around and see if anyone has thinner stock. I am fine with planing it down once I get close, I would just hate to waste the material if I can get thinner stock.
ThanksPat
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