Congrats on getting out there and spending the day ripping your strips. Are you going to do Bead & Cove? 1/2 of a millemeter is not much IF you are NOT doing B&C BUT it will MATTER if you are going to do B&C (IMHO). I agree with what Dave wrote about running the strips through a surface planer prior to B&C. I did that also and it is the way to go. Running the strips through a surface planer is a real good idea for you if you do B&C or not. I do understand that you may NOT just have a nice surface planer sitting around but you do need one for a few hours (Any ideas??). We must make so many decisions as builders and we have also the need to stop thinking and start CUTTING so sure as I go to work I am going to make mistakes (like the one of this post) and never can I guess which one I will make until I make it and it is always somthing 'stupid' like setting by ruler instead of an existing strip..... OH WELL onward and upward, good luck!

Joe

: Hi,

: I've been ripping strips, western red cedar,oregon pine and a board of wengé
: (black hardwood) this weekend, but i had to re-set my saw due to a change
: of cutter 2/3rds of the way through, and made the (stupid ?) mistake of
: setting the thichkness after a ruler, and not after an existing strip.

: Now it turns out the rest of the strips are about 0,5mm thicker than the
: first batch.

: Should i re-rip these, or can i sand down (or in other ways remove the
: excessive thickness) when the strips has been glued to the forms ?

: As a bonus question, should i drop the hardwood because it is too hard to
: sand down compared to the cedar (it is beautiful and was pretty expensive,
: but the shop had a board in just the right thickness, so i couldn't help
: buying it) ?

: Regards

: Jesper

: P.S. I'm a first time builder, and it's a Guillemot Expedition Single.