On 27 Jan 97  01:16:31 Roy McNeill typed to Niels Petersen ....

Hi Roy

 >  RM> Could be a bit tight; I'll need about 6 planks for the job, and a
 >  RM> few of the 13 are a bit thicker than the rest.

 >  NP>  Get them put through a thicknesser.

 > I went to a hardware shop that has a timber yard attached, wandered
 > out the back and told an unkempt hairy person what I wanted.
 > "Sure", he says, "bring em in on Monday."
"Rough cost?" asks I.
 > "Box of beer", sez he. "Done!" sez me.

 Easy ain't it :-)

 > So now I have 12 planks 22mm thick, instead of 8 planks somewhere
 > between 25 and 27 mm and four more up around 28 to 30. I can now
 > see the grain (nice!) and the flaws much more clearly. Picking out
 > the best ones for the benchtop will be much easier. They are now
 > back in the stack, waiting for me to make a few more spacers to get
 > the inter-spacer distance down.

 Only ONE problem !!!

 I forgot to say that you get them thicknessed AFTER they have dried out.


 > One more thing - after the cut planks had been in the van in the
 > sun for a few hours, there was a strong "new wood" smell, implying
 > that the freshly planed wood was fairly damp. Looks like they'll
 > take a *long* time to dry.

The figure is 1 _year_ per inch thickness

 > Thanks again for the suggestions. I'll send you a photo when I
 > eventually get the top made (if you're still in this world, of
 > course...)

I'll let you know if I die. I wouldn't want you to waste a stamp.


 (compassionate sod, aren't i)

 Of Course !!  Compassionate enough to send a card to me anyway :-)
(I still have it on the shelf)

Cheers
Niels

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