: That is really cool! Here was I (in the process of burning strips off my
: boards) marking diagonally across the ends of the boards with my kids'
: coloured pencils - a different colour for each board but repeating for
: different lengths of boards - in order to know from which board and where
: in that board each plank came such that I could colour match when I begin
: planking. Now I can add another dimension - grain matching. Sometime being
: AR does have its advantages . . .

: One question - does C&B throw it off slightly or is it just a matter of
: adjusting how the grain aligns?

: Greg

I have minimal strip and NO c&b experience, but it seems to me that c&b brings in some potential difficulties for careful grain/strip builders. Because bookmatched grain matches only at the edges, if the edge is damaged or sanded (or beaded or coved) I would think some probs. Because the grain does not really match anywhere - at the top, the bead has lost the match and at the middle the cove has lost the match. This is all probably way way way too touchy and isn't even noticable. But you know, what do the eagles see??

And one other thing really has me curious abt b&c and normal strip bldg. Say you sand a little unevenly in one area or one form is a little too high and you fair it down a bit here. Do all the strips look wavy in these areas? Because the more you sand, the more the cove edge is removed so the strip looks like it is moving sideways so the strips don't look as if they are straight??

Is bead and cove - big and clumsy? Is a bevel or mitre the path to perfection??

-mick