[Woodworkers] Christmas present help needed!!

[Clint Warren]

Glad it’s working out. I hadn’t ever metered it, but it always seemed super dry. I tried once to give it a weathered look, but was never happy with the results. I’ll have to try the steel wool trick sometime.

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From: Woodworkers <woodworkers-bounces at lists.sawdusters.org> on behalf of Chuck Steger via Woodworkers <woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 7:52:53 PM
To: 'A place where woodworkers talk about woodworking'
Cc: Chuck Steger
Subject: Re: [Woodworkers] Christmas present help needed!!

Things are looking better today and a big shout-out and thank you to everyone who weighed in on my panic attack :). Things have progressed better by the end of the day today. This morning I went into the shop to find my rescue attempt had failed and now I had two warped panels. I headed to HD with my moisture meter and checked the MC on the 1x4 cedar and it was 6%. I have to give a huge thank you to Clint for recommending the cedar. This was a home run!! Not only is it dry enough but it is also stable and pretty flat. I’ve never used it before so didn’t realize that they planed the back perfectly smooth and flat but leave the front rough. This is perfect for what I’m trying to do. It virtually eliminates the step to texture the wood! It’s the exact look I was going for. Thanks!

I only had to prep the edges for glue up. With only clamps across the joints (i.e. no clamps holding the panel flat), it is sitting perfectly flat against the clamps – no gaps. I did alternate the clamps to spread out the clamping pressure (2 up and 1 down). So far, it looks encouraging!! Fingers crossed!

Chuck

From: Woodworkers [mailto:woodworkers-bounces at lists.sawdusters.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Steger via Woodworkers
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2017 7:07 PM
To: 'A place where woodworkers talk about woodworking'
Cc: Chuck Steger
Subject: Re: [Woodworkers] Christmas present help needed!!

   I ended up spending the day trying to rescue what I had. The one panel made of 1x4’s is twisted and can’t be fixed. But the one I made out of milled 2x4’s had a cup in the center. Quite frankly, if the convex part of the cup was on the show side. I probably would have called it good. That would have put the sides flat against the wall and stable but if you looked from the top or bottom, you would see a gap in the middle. No one would see if from top or bottom (much) so I would have settled. However, the convex side was on the back so the middle of the panel would hit the wall first and it would have been wobbly. Given my time crunch, I decided to try to take the cup out using a jointer plane, finish plane, and a belt sander. I know that would have made the middle boards thinner than the end boards, but against a wall, who would notice. I was not successful doing that. So I decided to cut the panel  in 2 (which cut my cleats also but now I only had to align 2 panels, not 9 boards), plane it flat, and re-glue. This kind of worked. The problem was the planer pushed the panels flat so they were still not totally flat. So then I had this idea to use the TS as a jointer. In other words, If I hold then end of the ½ panel flat against the TS, it elevates the cut end a little (1/8”). I then did the same to the other ½ panel. In effect, what this did was when I glued both panels back together, the ends stayed flat to the table and the joint closed with no gaps. If you look under the panel, you see the ends fat on the table and the middle raised by about ¼”. I will find out tomorrow if this worked. I hate to even admit I’m doing it that way and with more time, I would remake from scratch with all of your suggestions. But, alas, time is not my friend. If I get the panel to look flat against the wall and not rock, I am going to call that success! Stay tuned.

Chuck
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