All,
I feel kinda stupid asking this question, but I’m not much of a design person.
I’ve got these 4 – 3 1/2″sq.x30″ maple quarter sawn pieces that I was planning to turn into legs for a table. The grain is fairly tight and strait and I got the notion that maybe I should rip slabs and make panels for use in a cabinet. I went through the gallery a bit and did not see quarter sawn maple except on workbenches.
What would you do with the maple…and if you did slab the maple would you relagate the panels to the side of a cabinet and not use for top or front of a piece. thanks
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BG, for starters, I'd save these leg blanks for another occasion and go out and buy 4/4 maple for the job at hand. Maple is a relatively unstable wood and it is more difficult to kiln dry in heavy thicknesses. Consequently, the blanks you have are more valuable than would be the equivalent amount of 4/4 stock...and perhaps even more importantly it is highly likely that these heavy blanks contain at least some case hardening that will materialize in the form of cupping, if you attempt to resaw them.
Jon,
Thanks, as usual, good advice.
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