| Forum topic by Brett | posted 02-13-2012 03:57 PM | 729 views | 0 times favorited | 1 reply |  |
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02-13-2012 03:57 PM |
I’ve started making a workbench out of southern yellow pine 2×12s. Some of the boards are cut through the center of the tree (quartersawn). I’ve ripped the boards in half, so each board is approximately 5 inches wide with the heartwood along one edge and the sapwood along the other. I need to rip these boards down to 3.5” wide, which I can do by removing 1.5” from either edge. Southern yellow pine looks pretty similar throughout the board, so maybe it doesn’t matter which edge I remove, but I was wondering if it is important when using other types of wood to either use or avoid the heartwood or sapwood, if possible. Any thoughts? -- More tools, fewer machines. |
