Thread: construction grade pine thicknessed down to get rid of round edges

You could cut it off with a circular saw.

Make up a jig like this, it will run along the far edge taking off 4mm. Flip the timber and do the other side (after adjusting it of course)

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Originally Posted by jasonblewis

Hi guys,

Are there any lumber yards around Sydney who sell construction grade pine who would be willing to run it through a thicknesser to get rid of the rounded edges?

or better yet, any who sell that kind of lumber but without rounded edges? I want to laminate it up to make various things and planing down the rounded edges is annoying. I don't have a thicknesser or table saw or similar large machines. just hand tools.

thanks

Jason

Which part of Sydney?

Originally Posted by woodPixel

You could cut it off with a circular saw.

Make up a jig like this, it will run along the far edge taking off 4mm. Flip the timber and do the other side (after adjusting it of course)

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Hi,

yes, that will take care of a thinner side. In my case I would need to trim it on the wide side as well... the jig won't help it, unfortunately.

Originally Posted by woodPixel

You could cut it off with a circular saw.

Make up a jig like this, it will run along the far edge taking off 4mm. Flip the timber and do the other side (after adjusting it of course)

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Originally Posted by rustynail

Which part of Sydney?

Any, if possible... But North Shores will be the closest to me.

Are you hand planing using a bench plane or planing with a power plane? Even a cheap Chinese no-name will quickly take off the two to three mil needed off each side and if you fit a sturdy fence you can get quite reasonable accuracy too.

You dont need to do the wider sides, only the two short ones. By laying the board down and zinging off 4mm on each side, it eliminates the roundover.

Of course, your 90x45 will now be only 82x45.

This is exactly what I do for all my kids furniture, but on the table saw.

Timber used is the 5.4m lengths of MGP10 90x45 from bunnings. These particular pieces are very straight, rather knot free and have a zillion growth rings per inch. The short lengths though are rubbish.

Which bunnings stock those 5.4 meter pieces Woodpixel?

Hand plane. I did many meters of them for my Paul Sellers bench

I live in Canberra and its one of the places I acquire the daily basics. https://www.bunnings.com.au/90-x-45m...-pine_p8440099 .... little else as they are hopeless and small business here accommodates for everything else.

They don't seem to list the 5.4m on the site, but the 6.0 is. Its all the same stuff and priced by the metre. It does say that it might not be in all stores, but Sydney has 1000 places to buy it.

My poor trailer isn't long enough, so I take the Ryoba and chop it down into ~3's before paying for it. That way it can be brought home without attracting the attentions of the constabulary.

North shore places I buy from:

NorthSide timber at Thornleigh - good timber, prices are on their WEB site, delivery is expensive.
Hardware and General - timber section at Brookvale. Only bought ply from them but it was excellent at a good price. Free delivery
Berlian Timber at Mt Kur-ring- Gai. Good timber, great staff, reasonable delivery price.

Just a heads up, construction grade pine is absolute rubbish. I bought some about 3 months ago (masters fire sale) to make a laminated bench top as a temporary workbench in the shed and it is the crappiest, most poorly seasoned timber I have ever worked with. I use the stuff a lot for framing, so I know the stuff is always warped and wet inside, but I had no idea how bad..

I ran a load through the planer and thicknesser, and 2 days later it was all warped and twisted again. I ended up gluing it together using domino's which helped, but it probably would have been cheaper (defiantly easier) to purchase clear DAR pine from the local sawmill (which is they way I would go next time around.

Originally Posted by jasonblewis

Hand plane. I did many meters of them for my Paul Sellers bench

Masochist!

Using a cheap hand power plane will save you hours of heavy bull work, once the bulk is removed you can then finish off with hand planes to get the edges as crisp and square as you need.

A few months ago I completed a 5.5m kitchen benchtop made from redgum, the timber was supplied dry but rough sawn. I claim it is hand made because every plank was jointed by hand and the entire surface was planed and scraped smooth by hand, however the planks were roughed out by power planing to a chalk line, cut to width with a circular saw and initially dressed with a thicknesser to give me a starting point.

I built my workbench from such timber and agreed its rubbish, but through careful selection you can get good bits. You just need a friendly timber yard that won't mind you picking through to get the good bits. Even despite doing that I got a few bits that were too twisted to use, so always budget a bit more timber. Rallis Timber in Marrickville were pretty helpful and once I got him onside, he was very helpful picking through the timber.

you can see photos here:

Finished my workbench! | Emacs Tragic

and here:

Workbench | Emacs Tragic