How to cut this...

[venkatbo]

Folks,

I picked up a few 6"-12" wide x 1" thick x 3' long rough sawn walnut from a lumber yard... I'm thinking of using them to build door panels... What is the best way to saw these to reduce the thickenss ?

For the 6" wide pieces can I use a TS ? or should I use a band saw on all these pieces...

I paid ~$1/lb for thee reasonably flat/rectangular pieces... new to ww/lumber-purchasing... looked like a good deal... Was also able to pick up beautiful wine-red/brown bubinga 1'x2' contiguous veneers ($2/sheet) with wavy grain... Hopefully will be able to build book-matched door panels someday... Symmetry looks gorgeous...

Thanks,
/venkat

[Tequila]

You can use a table saw with a zero-clearance throat plate, but you'll end up wasting at least twice as much wood as you would with a band saw. If you've got a band saw, that's definitely the way to go.

What kind of door panels are you making? You could keep them at a full 1" thick and rout the edges to make raised panel doors insead of flat panel.

[LCHIEN]

definatley a job for a good bandsaw (reducing thickness, or "resawing")

[agent511]

It sounds like a bandsaw job, but it would have to be a large one with a riser to handle resawing 12" stock. How many newby's have one of those?

As you mentioned, can't use the tablesaw to resaw on the wider pieces.

Then how do you flatten them? Too wide for a 6" jointer. Shouldn't go through the planer with two uneven sides. (The two outside pieces would be OK, the inside pieces wouldn't). Really should go through a drum sander like David Marks does after resawing on the bandsaw. How many newby's have one of those?

You would have to rip the 12" pieces to less than 6", then resaw them, joint them, plane them, then glue them back together.

Sounds like may have bit off more than one could chew, AISI.