Reclaimed wood score: old mahogany

Good score on the Mahogany!

-- Growing older but not up!

congrats! looks like is has plenty of usable material

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

nice haul.

Quick question from a novice…

Can you run painted/finished wood through a planer and jointer without doing harm to blades, rollers, etc? I’ve seen some nice wood that was heavily painted and I passed on it thinking it was too much trouble to strip… but then, since it had to be machined to reflatten, etc… I wondered about simply running the paint through the machines?

-- Al H. - small shop, small projects...

no clue. although i’m gonna guess no. i’m going to try to scrape it off, possibly with a little help from a paint stripper first.

Al you can run wood with paint through the planer but you might dull the blades a little faster. Just make sure that there is not imbedded materials in the wood.

A nice catch on the mahogany.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I have put painted wood through a planer and it removes it no prob’s. like Karson said watch for foreign objects .I bought one of these small metal detectors for jobs like this.I don’t put anything through which makes that little beauty squeel. Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

really!? without gumming things up rotten?

I’d bet that paint is old and dry, I’m sure you probably wouldn’t want to put something that was recently painted through it (the latex would probably still be stretchy and gum things up).

What a great find. Lots of value in that pile.

-- Whether You Think You Can or You Think You Can't, YOU ARE RIGHT!!!

good find

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon