Resawing a dry 2x and watching it twist....
I am working on a project for another forum, and I have to resaw some 2x construction grade stock for that project. Mind you, I have no moisture meter, but the stuff has been in my garage/ shop now for 3 years, if it is ever going to be dry, now is the time… Anyway, so I get the stuff all set up, get the band saw set up, and the board i started working with was straight as a… well board when I started. Unfortunately when I finished, you could almost watch the thing curl up like a potato chip…
I should have opted to do a different sort of project, and I have plenty more of this type of stock so I can start over on a new project, but dang… This is NASTY…
For what it's worth, I got to be a genuine idiot too. I set the tension on the saw, I set the distance on the guide blocks, set the height for the upper guide so that it was just off the work piece, got to sawing, what I didn't notice, and I am NOT sure how, is that I still had my 3/16" blade in the saw! To quote Homer Simpson, D'oh!
Oh well, this particular work piece is now most likely going to end up laminated up to other bits and pieces, into a segmented turning eventually…
I am working on a project for another forum, and I have to resaw some 2x construction grade stock for that project. Mind you, I have no moisture meter, but the stuff has been in my garage/ shop now for 3 years, if it is ever going to be dry, now is the time… Anyway, so I get the stuff all set up, get the band saw set up, and the board i started working with was straight as a… well board when I started. Unfortunately when I finished, you could almost watch the thing curl up like a potato chip…
I should have opted to do a different sort of project, and I have plenty more of this type of stock so I can start over on a new project, but dang… This is NASTY…
For what it's worth, I got to be a genuine idiot too. I set the tension on the saw, I set the distance on the guide blocks, set the height for the upper guide so that it was just off the work piece, got to sawing, what I didn't notice, and I am NOT sure how, is that I still had my 3/16" blade in the saw! To quote Homer Simpson, D'oh!
Oh well, this particular work piece is now most likely going to end up laminated up to other bits and pieces, into a segmented turning eventually…