Hello,
I just purchased about 25board feet of Bolivian Rose-wood for a cabinet. I did’nt notice the bad bow in it and began to dress it. When I started to lay them out edge to edge for jointing one of the boards had a pretty bad bow in it, not on the edge side but on the face side, on 30 inches its cupped about 1/4” on each end………
Is there anything I can do to straighten it out besides my planer? its very expensive and I dont want to mill it down to 1/8” thick wood…..
Any advise appreciated……
Beautiful Bob
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You could rip it the long way into narrower pieces, remove the bow on these pieces and rejoin them.
If its been that way for a while, there is really no way to remove it. The cells of the wood become deformed fairly quickly and do not reform themselve.
You can cut it into shorter pieces and you will lose less when you joint it.
Bobby,
If the bowed board is to be part of a cabinet side or other panel that is made by edge-gluing it to other (straight) boards, then the straight ones will start to pull the bowed one flat. But the bowed one will also try to bend the straight ones.
If the bowed board can be "bracketed" by straight ones AND one side of the resultant panel will not show, cut one to four grooves across the no-show side of the bowed board (edge-to-edge) so it will be more easily straightened by the boards either side of it.
Such grooving is often used on the underside of window sills that might otherwise bow or cup with the excessive humidity changes that occur around windows.
Of course, this solution assumes quite a few "ifs"...
Lataxe
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