Hi Neils



On (02 Jan 97) Niels Petersen wrote to Roy McNeill...



 NP> I found a rule of thumb figure was to get 30% more timber than

 NP> required and you will wind up with enough straight stuff for the

 NP> job.



 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.



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.



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.



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...)(compassionate sod, aren't i)



Cheers



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