{"id":751,"date":"2010-05-25T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2010-05-25T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:43:25","slug":"dealing-with-lacewood-strategy-in-stock-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/dealing-with-lacewood-strategy-in-stock-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with lacewood – strategy in stock preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thoughtfully managing the wood right from the start<\/strong> is one of the most critical elements in the success of a project. I find it to be also one of the most exciting aspects of woodworking. Here I show how I managed a board of 8\/4 lacewood to get the desired figure and sizes of wood needed for a project.<\/p>\n

I pieced back together the sawn board to recreate the decision process. Below is an end-grain view. The more prominent lines in lacewood<\/strong>, here running across the board\u2019s width, are rays<\/strong>. The faint annual rings<\/strong> are nearly vertical and approximately perpendicular to the rays. At the top of the board, the rays meet the edge at an angle and so produce a rather fine figure on the surface<\/strong>. This is not quite what I wanted.<\/p>\n

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The two photos below shows the board flipped over. Now, at the top of board, the rays are nearly parallel with the edge and so produce a broad flake figure<\/strong> on the surface. To my eye, this is not the most attractive look for lacewood.<\/p>\n

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To get the desired figure and have all the surfaces consistent, I resawed the board at an angle<\/strong> such that the rays, as they traverse the core of the board,\u00a0meet the cut line at an angle, but at a lower angle than at the top surface\u00a0in the first\u00a0photo (at top). To give this a test, I made a 1 \u00bd” end cut, marked a resaw line and cut it to reveal the new surfaces.<\/strong> They looked good so I went ahead,\u00a0set my bandsaw table,\u00a0and resawed the board at that angle.<\/p>\n

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The photo below shows the resawn surfaces. I also ripped the resawn boards to produce pieces from which I can get 1″ and 3\/4″ thicknesses, which will fit the needs of the planned project. Of course, since the resawn surfaces were all originally adjacent to each other, there is excellent consistency in the figure<\/strong>. (The surfaces have been hit-or-miss jointed.)<\/p>\n

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Some of these pieces will be gently shaped,<\/strong> primarily along their lengths. Because this will not appreciably\u00a0change the angle at which the rays meet the surface<\/strong>, there should be no noticeable change in the figure pattern. There will be a bit of shaping across the width of some of\u00a0the pieces, but I will keep this to a bare minimum because that will change the angle at which the rays meet the surface and thus change the figure.<\/p>\n

This was fun – especially since the wood came out the way I had hoped. Sure, sometimes things won\u2019t work out because, as Dr. Hoadley reminds us in the first sentence of chapter one\u00a0in his seminal book, Understanding Wood<\/em>, “wood comes from trees.” Careful strategy in breaking down stock is essential to the success of a woodworking project. This thinking should start even as you are <\/strong>selecting the wood<\/strong><\/a> from the supplier.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thoughtfully managing the wood right from the start is one of the most critical elements in the success of a project. I find it to be also one of the most exciting aspects of woodworking. Here I show how I managed a board of 8\/4 lacewood to get the desired figure and sizes of wood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}