TV Stand #5: Problems with the top....and the heat

thats extremly frustrating.

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Do you own a jointer?

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I work in a detached garage near Houston. High temperatures have been about 100 for the last month or two. This spring I installed a gable vent fan in the back of the garage to get rid of the hot air that otherwise accumulates back there. I turn on that fan ahead of time to bring the temperature down to the outside temperature, and I keep another fan blowing directly on me most of the time that I’m out there.

Coincidentally, the door I’ve been working on since January is also African Mahogany.

Bummer about the piece that twisted. Wood will do what it will do.

Edge jointing with a router and straight edge would work. Maybe you could use the cut edge of your circular saw jig. Some people clamp down the mating pieces so that when they run the router down the straight edge the bit runs between the mating surfaces (which face each other) and trims both of the mating surfaces at the same time. This ensures that they are parallel even if the straight edge is a bit curved.

Are you going to use anything to keep the edges aligned?

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Hi,

You are welcome to come use my jointer. I’m in Pasadena. Send me a message.

John

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I added two turbines in the roof and I have a swamp cooler but that doesn’t really keep me cool it just causes me to sweat more.

John – I might take you up on that. I’m going to try the router thing first and if that doesn’t work I’ll be contacting you. I went to Arroyo Hardwood in Pasadena to have the work done on the boards.

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Let me know. I had the same problem before I got my jointer when I was building my garage doors. I have used the router trick before.

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I live in San Bernardino, and just resawed some QSWO for some picture frames, during that stint of thunder storms we had a few weeks ago, I left the newly cut 1/4” veneers stacked in my garage, (Stickered) and when I came back after a few days of not so humid weather, they were bent and twisted like crazy. The dryer temperatures lately seemed to have caused the warping to not be so drastic.

Good thing in my case the wood is thin and when I veneer it, I can bend it back to shape.

With any panel, don’t worry about planing it until it is glued together. Wood moves with humidity. Wood slides in the clamps during glue up.

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Some people will purposefully make concave edges in what’s called a spring joint. The reason was that even dried wood tends to dry out more towards the ends over time. So to counteract the tendency for the ends to split, the concave section in the center they would force the ends of the boards to squeeze together even tighter.

Tommy Mac is one proponent of this technique.
http://www.thomasjmacdonald.com/media/video.php?vid=401f67810

Thanks for the comments everyone and Sarit thanks for the info and link. I’ve never heard of that tech before. I did watch his video he said the space he created was about the width of half a piece of paper. If the space in the middle of my boards was the small, I wouldn’t mind it but it’s a rather large space.

Al, I had purchased a Jet jointer when I first purchased my Bosch table saw about 5 years ago. I never used it and it took up a lot of room so I sold in on Craig’s list several years ago. Now I’m really into woodworking and wish I had it but it wasn’t the best quality anyway. Since I’m still rather young and I’ll be woodworking for some time to come, I decided to purchase another jointer, Powermatic 54A. I’ll just have to figure out where to put it.

Thanks again John for the jointer offer. You don’t happen to know anything about electricity? I would like to find someone that can help me (basically show me) how to install a sub-breaker and 220 in my garage. The only 220 thing I have is the table saw but I installed a 220 plug next to my circuit breaker and run a custom made extension cord to it. I re-wired my garage because when I moved in the only thing it had was one pull light in the middle of the garage.

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