Thread: Can't get Over the Thickness

Kitchen bench tops, table tops, rails for tables, chairs just to name a few

Resaw it into normal sizes, no wasting it thicknessing it down.

35mm could be milled to 32mm - 5/4 in Murrican terminology. Used upover here for decking, stair treads, some cabinet work. Usual basis for 3/4" is 1" (25mm). 45mm might correspond to Murrican 2x's (actually about 50mm), which is milled to 38mm (1.5") or 35mm (1.375"); typical use is for building framing.

Joe

Damn, looks like I need to get a bandsaw as well to resaw this down Have just convinced my beautiful girlfriend that I _need_ a buzzer and planner

Originally Posted by martink

Damn, looks like I need to get a bandsaw as well to resaw this down Have just convinced my beautiful girlfriend that I _need_ a buzzer and planner

We try to help as much as we can.

Joe

In the early 1980's I worked for a timber/hardware retailer which also owned a large sawmill which milled Tasmanian Eucalypt for local consumption and international markets. The timber was marketed as Risby Straightline Tasmanian Oak. Its undressed dimensions were 6mm greater then the DAR dimension. That is, 96mm x 25mm Kiln dried rough sawn was DAR to 90mm x 19mm. Don't ask why but there may be a timber technician here who can explain why.
Cheers

Sorry it was Anagote Timbers.
You haven't really answered my question. The place was filled with 35mm+ timbers and wide too! There is only a limited market for benchtops and stairtreads. Slicing a 45mm board, 300mm wide down to 2 X 20mm boards? I can't see anyone seriously doing that.

I must admit I was like a kid in a lolly shop. But I could not think of a single project where I would do justice to any of those sized timbers.

Thanks for the responses - quick too!
CP

I buy timber from them to build guitars with, so 250mm is a nice width for me.

Originally Posted by Carry Pine

Sorry it was Anagote Timbers.
You haven't really answered my question. The place was filled with 35mm+ timbers and wide too! There is only a limited market for benchtops and stairtreads. Slicing a 45mm board, 300mm wide down to 2 X 20mm boards? I can't see anyone seriously doing that.

I must admit I was like a kid in a lolly shop. But I could not think of a single project where I would do justice to any of those sized timbers.

Thanks for the responses - quick too!
CP

Ask them who buys it and what they produce with timber that wide and thick. If you wanted to match grain in tables or chairs you could rip it down to smaller sizes for instance. Table tops, bed heads and frames, solid wooden furniture. I wish I could get some.

I could resaw 280mm(BAS470), not that I've needed too yet as I mainly work with crapiarta.
The JET 18"and Hammer BS can resaw 300mm, its what they are designed for.

Carry P
I bought a fair bit of wide Tas. myrtle boards off them a few years ago.
Lovely boards
Rough sawn and 38mm thick.

They suited me fine for making dining chairs.

I thicknessed them down to about 32-34mm.
A big test for 13inch thicknesser and operator.

There is no way my little 16inch bandsaw would resaw the 250 or 300mm boards.

Scally bought a few Tas Myrtle boards off them last week - look great and good service too. Agree resaw with the BS is the go plus table legs etc.. also give consideration to non standard table tops etc.. so you dont end up building 'mass market' copies.

Originally Posted by Carry Pine

Yesterday I visited Anagoat Timbers in Sydney for the first time. A lovely range of timbers especially Aussie hardwoods. What I coldn't get over was the thickness of boards. I am so accustomed to looking at 19mm boards and everything was thicker than that. Given that most was rough sawn. Most boards were 35 - 45mm thick. Apart from floor treads in revamped warehouses, what do people use those boards for? All the furniture I see calls for 19mm (or 3/4in in American magazines).
I don't want to believe that those boards are machined down to 19mm!!!

Carry pine

we are a similair company to the one you visited in sydney........we carry around 40 species from around the world.......we try and keep rough sawn stock in 3 or 4 thicknesses .......most timbers are still milled in inches so we keep one , one and a half , two , two and a half , three and four kinches thick these convert to 25\38\50\60\75\100mm......this is the rough sawn thickness .....depending on how well the timber is sawn and dried , this will dictate how thick we can keep the timber in dressing.....for example we will often dress 25 mm rough sawn to say 22mm ........i personally think this gives say a table top a better look ......also consider the strength aspect......... we also resaw a lot of stock , and run say 8mm thick t and g flooring . or 4mm flooring for yachts............or 4mm wall panelling........we resurfaced a table last week with 3mm ......and built a kitchen bench top at 6 mm which was glued on top of existing plastic top........so there a multitude of uses fro timbers at differnet thicknesses.......my foreman is currently gluing up dome long grain balsa wood panels ten feet long three feet wide and 12mm or half inch thick for the surfboard industry..........rupert.....www.woodworld.com.au

One thing i've noticed about cutting down rough cut to smaller size, particularly thickness, (pardon the imperial meas.) is say you mill a 1 1/4in. to 3/8 in with a table saw and then run it through a planer you now have a double handfull of matched sets. Great for boxes and such. You find some wonderful grain combinations. Discovered this by accident trying to make slats.




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