: I don't like the logic of simply using a tool just because you have
: it. Why go through all the extra work of planing your strips if
: you don't need to? Why waste a couple hours of your life
: listening to the drone of a planer for no good reason? If your
: strips are all random thicknesses sue to a bad tablesaw setup
: then YES plane them. Like Rob said, you'll save yourself hours
: of labor later. BUT if you have a good set-up on your table saw,
: the strips should come off in a real uniform thickness. Even
: when I gang-rip my strips three at a time I never planed them.

: Heck, on the Neytiri Night Heron I stripped the deck with resawn
: sapele. The pieces were within 1/50" of each othe straight
: off the bandsaw. I never planed those even though I had a
: 15" planer with spiral carbides that would have sliced
: through the sapele like butter... with no tearout. I didn't need
: to. I had a new resaw blade and the bandsaw was just tuned up.

It would help I suppose if you cut all the strips on the same day with the same settup. I tend to cut the strips from what wood I have at the time, then as I find other wood that I want to use, I have to do the set up all over again, tends to end up with uneven strips. Only takes maybe an hour or so to plane them all, can feed several strips thru the planner at a time.

You're obviously much more organized than me :)

Bill H.