Thread: Thicknesser Machine and Tasmanian Oak

Originally Posted by Kidbee

I have a work colleague who joined three 19mm Tassie Oak boards and put them through the thicknesser. The outside boards planed down well but the one in the middle had some contorted grain and the planer left some tear out in it.

The question is what is the best clear filler to put in to fill the tear out? Or is there any other suggestions?

I assume the grain runs the opposite way on the middle board. Is there enough extra width to run it through the table saw to separate the boards, turn the middle one around, then re-glue?

Was it really a work colleague?

You could smear something like Diggers Casting Resin over the area. Or fill it with the lacquer that you are going to use to finish it this way it will all blend in.

Hi Kidbee,
If you have enough material left in the width and thickness as suggested by Hermit that would be the way to go no matter what you fill it with it will be visible.
Regards Rod.

Originally Posted by Rod Gilbert

Hi Kidbee,
If you have enough material left in the width and thickness as suggested by Hermit that would be the way to go no matter what you fill it with it will be visible.
Regards Rod.

Yep. Filling it with a clear filler will just 'set it in concrete' forever. The other alternative is to run it through a wide drum sander, one side at a time if necessary, to sand out the tearout. That depends on the overall width and availability of an 'open-ended' WDS.

Tas Oak is notorious for tearout. I was donated a pile of ex Forty Winks Tas Oak bed legs for resawing, so work with the stuff every day. (Too cheap to buy timber.)

Both of my suggestions depend on whether you have enough thickness 'to spare', too, as pointed out by Rod.
Good luck with it.

Thanks fellas, I will pass the information on.