{"id":919,"date":"2010-10-12T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2010-10-13T01:03:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T06:03:27","slug":"woods-wicked-ways-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/woods-wicked-ways-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood’s wicked ways: the solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on the problem posed in the<\/strong> previous post<\/a>, here is how I managed this board. Most important, I proceeded step by step, watching the wood.\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0procedure below may seem complicated, but it really\u00a0is\u00a0simply a matter of understanding wood and using good sense.<\/p>\n

Before doing anything else, it pays to perform the casehardening test<\/strong>. This will require cutting an inch of length off the end of the board and sawing out the core of the offcut to create a long “U” shape. Please refer to the method described in an earlier post<\/a>. This board, like most thick stock, had some casehardening stress in it.<\/p>\n

Starting with rough stock nearly 1 \u00bd” thick and about 9″ wide, the final thickness at the center of the 25″ length will be just under 11\/16″ and, at the outer ends, just under 1 3\/16″, for a curve depth of \u00bd”.<\/p>\n

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The diagram is only roughly to scale. It really is intended to give a qualitative sense of how the board was managed. The numbers in the diagram refer to the steps discussed below.<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> I investigated the board by skimming the faces<\/strong> on the jointer just enough to decide if the board will look nice and to choose the show face which will be the curved face on the outside of the cabinet.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> The opposite (inside)\u00a0face\u00a0was hit-or-miss jointed enough to establish flatness<\/strong>. This leaves some rough areas remaining, but enough of the face is smooth and flat to serve as a reference for marking out the curve. At this point, there is less than 1 3\/8″ of thickness remaining. I also did a light pass through the thickness planer (with the flat side down, of course) to get a better look at the show side and to\u00a0estimate how much thickness would be surviving.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong>\u00a0I sawed the curve with\u00a0the bandsaw<\/strong>. The\u00a0layout line\u00a0was drawn almost up to the surface of the board at the ends. (I had left an inch or so of extra length at each end.) I sawed away from the line, guided by a second line drawn less than 1\/16″ away from the original line. This allows for clean up later.<\/p>\n

Because\u00a0substantial thickness was now removed from\u00a0one side\u00a0of the board, it promptly distorted<\/strong> so the flat side wasn\u2019t flat anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> I then removed wood from the inside face which neutralized some of the distortion and<\/em> re-established the flatness of this face<\/strong>. I did this mostly by hand planing which gave me a chance to keep an eye on things as I went along.<\/p>\n

I then cleaned up and refined the curved face, rechecking the flat face as I went along and making minor\u00a0corrections as\u00a0needed. At this stage only small quantities of wood\u00a0were being removed so only minimal correction was required.<\/p>\n

The board now sits on stickers as it awaits its role in the construction of the cabinet.<\/p>\n

Despite all of this forethought and care, it still helps to have some<\/strong> luck<\/strong> with wood, but it\u2019s not so wicked after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up on the problem posed in the previous post, here is how I managed this board. Most important, I proceeded step by step, watching the wood.\u00a0The\u00a0procedure below may seem complicated, but it really\u00a0is\u00a0simply a matter of understanding wood and using good sense. Before doing anything else, it pays to perform the casehardening test. This […]<\/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-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}