07-05-2020, 04:00 PM
Bing the wood addict I am when they widened the road by my house and cut down a nice Hickory I quickly showed up with my trailer and tractor and helped them clean up the area. Took three nice logs (never measured them but the three barely fit on the 6' wide trailer!) to the Amish band saw mill and brought home a nice stack of lumber stickered and stacked in the back of the shed
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Now it's two years later and I'm using the hickory to make some stair treads for the new house.
I'm sanding the wood after running it through my Jet 15" planer with Shelix head. Looks very good laying on bench, but getting up close I see some "waves" in the surface. I start sanding with 6" ROS and 80 grit paper and waves start going away so I'm thinking it's somehow related to planer.
Waves are about 3/4" apart -- my first thought is the wood is bouncing somehow when cutters make cut. So more sanding, change paper and sand some more and it's smooth and waves aren't apparent.
Then I try some stain. Trying to blend the sapwood and heartwood I tried a very dark stain on the white areas and the waves pop up again as dark stripes in the light wood.
Since they are perpendicular to the grain I'm wondering if it's from the bandsaw teeth somehow compressing the wood since I've sanded it smooth and only the stain shows the streaks.
Any ideas????
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Now it's two years later and I'm using the hickory to make some stair treads for the new house.
I'm sanding the wood after running it through my Jet 15" planer with Shelix head. Looks very good laying on bench, but getting up close I see some "waves" in the surface. I start sanding with 6" ROS and 80 grit paper and waves start going away so I'm thinking it's somehow related to planer.
Waves are about 3/4" apart -- my first thought is the wood is bouncing somehow when cutters make cut. So more sanding, change paper and sand some more and it's smooth and waves aren't apparent.
Then I try some stain. Trying to blend the sapwood and heartwood I tried a very dark stain on the white areas and the waves pop up again as dark stripes in the light wood.
Since they are perpendicular to the grain I'm wondering if it's from the bandsaw teeth somehow compressing the wood since I've sanded it smooth and only the stain shows the streaks.
Any ideas????
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Wild Turkey
We may see the writing on the wall, but all we do is criticize the handwriting.
(joined 10/1999)