Culrly natural Birch

[sleddogg]

I have an 8' x 7" 4/4 rough sawn board with so much curl in it it literally looks like end grain in between some of the rays. Being a newbie I'm not sure what to do to smooth it out. I want to make four book matched panels for flat panel doors for an entertainment center. I figure I'll cut to rough length, resaw, face joint, edge joint, thickness plane, (close to desired thickness), cut to width, cut to length and edge glue into panels. Then hope to smooth out grain undulations with a scraper. Am I on track here? Also is there anything I can use to fill the grain if indeed there is no smoothing out the "tearout" caused by cutters in the grain change? I'll try and post a pic so you can visualize the drastic grain directions in this board.

P.S. How do I post a picture here from my digital camera?

[mschrank]

P.S. How do I post a picture here from my digital camera?

Probably easiest to download the pic from your camera to your PC first. Then click on the "attachment" icon (looks like a paper clip) and follow your nose from there...

Also, take a look at this thread for tips.

[Russianwolf]

I have an 8' x 7" 4/4 rough sawn board with so much curl in it it literally looks like end grain in between some of the rays. Being a newbie I'm not sure what to do to smooth it out. I want to make four book matched panels for flat panel doors for an entertainment center. I figure I'll cut to rough length, resaw, face joint, edge joint, thickness plane, (close to desired thickness), cut to width, cut to length and edge glue into panels. Then hope to smooth out grain undulations with a scraper. Am I on track here? Also is there anything I can use to fill the grain if indeed there is no smoothing out the "tearout" caused by cutters in the grain change? I'll try and post a pic so you can visualize the drastic grain directions in this board.

P.S. How do I post a picture here from my digital camera?

sounds like the perfect excuse to buy a drum sander.

[drumpriest]

I tend to agree with Mike, a drum sander or wide belt sander is the best way to handle a piece of stock such as that one. If you have a local lumber yard, they may have one that you can use or they can run it for you.

[Otter]

If you can't afford the drum sander, you could do a router rail type of setup. Here look at this....

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...ghlight=Router

Hope it helps

[sleddogg]

Pics

When I try to upload pictures it says the file sizes are larger than the maximum allowed for that file type.

[drumpriest]

I can't remember off hand, but I think they need to be smaller than 512 wide or so. You should be able to resize them in most photo editing software packages. Even MS paint can do it. (though not well)

[Ken Massingale]

I believe the file size has to be less than 90k
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