I am going to be building an endgrain cutting board with a herringbone pattern. Planning on using 1x8s for material. These measure out to 3/4x?? My question, would it be reasonable to expect to stay at or above 0.7″ thick after planer and jointer?
Attached image is the pattern I am going to be doing.
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Nice pattern, but not really herringbone...more like basket weave. To get 0.7 out of commercial 3/4 stock after a single pass each on the J @ P is unlikely to me. The good news is: IT DOESN'T MATTER. Mill the stock, glue the blanks, and trim to your 1:2 ratio. If your ratios are true you'll be fine.
As long as they are all the same thickness, it won't matter.
If you have a thickness planer, why are you using 3/4 stock? Rough 4/4 would be cheaper, and you are planing it anyway.
But if you are buying it planed, it doesn't need to touch your jointer.
Can’t agree that ‘planed’ wood from the store doesn’t need work like the jointer. For zero gap glue joints they have to be the same thickness and true. To get that don’t trust one side to be flat - go first to the jointer to ensure that. Then planer.
I've been building furniture for almost 40 years, and have never owned a join her. I buy all my lumber rough. If I have a little too much twist, I'll use a jack plane first, but mostly just use my thickness planer.
I really just don't see the necessity for a jointer. I function just fine without it.
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