Jointing some thick walnut door rails and styles.

5 months ago
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Having a local guy build a 3 panel walnut door for me. I have too many irons in the fire to do it right now. I am supplying him with the material. The rails and styles need to finish at 2 1/4 inches thick and we want them out of a solid piece instead of a glue up. So material that thick and dry is not easy to come by. I still had three consecutive 26" wide walnut slabs that are 2.75" thick that I had dried at the end of last winter. So I had to sacrifice 2 of the slabs because the same half of each slab has a bark inclusion but the other half was pretty clear and quarter sawn. I had chainsaw milled these a handful of years ago. The pieces needed to be jointed and although I don't have a conventional jointer, I have a Woodmizer MP100 planer for my mill track. It acts like a big jointer. I usually use it to true up beams after they've air dried a few years and stabilized. Anyway this works just fine for the bigger material.

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