I have written a couple of pieces on “four squaring” and thicknessing by hand, and these are on my website. Here I want to describe a technique that I recently began using when thicknessing boards. I have not seen it elsewhere, but I am very aware that I may likely be re-inventing the wheel. http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Furniture/AThicknessingTechnique.html Regards from Perth Derek
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Good trick, Derek. While I am aware of many techniques (certainly not all of them, possibly not even most), this one is new to me.
http://swingleydev.com/archive/get.php?message_id=13195&submit_thread=1#message
definitely reinventing the wheel but it's a lot older than this post
Hi Derek,
Interesting..Just shows the timber-like consistency of me wet ware hasn't changed much over the years. I recall using this techneek shaping some legs for a table[now lost in the mists of antiquity...the job that is,],but have not thought of it since.
Makes me even more of a goose as I am currently trying to flatten some cedar boards,and hadn't thought about that way.
Have to say that at the time,there seemed to be a'positive'sort of feel about it that I liked.
Thanks for aiming the bright light,Derek.
Robin
Geeee.. I just run my stuff through my thickness sander?
And a very old song to do it by...
Judy Collins -Both Sides Now ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DH70wYWsK0&feature=related
And if you are a Turner...
TheBirds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKHstR6ndus&feature=related
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