How-To
Squaring Up Rough Lumber
Learn the four-square technique for milling lumber
Oct 25, 2005
Straight and square lumber is essential to the success of almost every woodworking project. In this video, Fine Woodworking contributing editor Gary Rogowski demonstrates the most common method for preparing lumber for furniture projects, offering a number of useful tips along the way. Grain orientation and common issues with rough lumber, such as how to deal with warped, twisted, and bowed lumber, are discussed.
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Two things: 1) Unless the dog is already deaf, why is it in the shop? A dog's hearing is far more acute than ours and those machines can't be doing it any good. 2) Why is the blade guard not on the tablesaw?
Other than that, very informative. I've got some pieces that I'm going to have to work with that are in similar shape.
Enough of the call out culture...focus on the material. Gary looks like a boss with all 10 digits. Great video, learn something new everyday.
Thanks Gary! You took something that drives me nuts and gave me a simple and entertaining way to try to get some usable wood out of messed up lumber.
This as very helpful I have some walnut that is as you say a mess. Hopefully following your video will help me get some good usable wood out of it.
Anybodyhave an answer for this one? When do you resaw a board to dimension and when do you just plane it to dimension?
I thought for sure you were going to hand plane everything. Why spend a couple hours for mediocre results when you can have perfection in 10 minutes?
Good job Gary!
I don't have a planer. Could you have used a table saw or band saw to true up the second face and then used the jointer to smooth the second face?
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