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Re: Strip: Stripping the wood
By:Phil
Date: 3/7/2014, 3:39 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Stripping the wood *PIC* (Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K)

With my first build, I spent a lot of time occupying my large deck with infeed and outfeed tables. I used Rob Macks method of cutting strips. What I would add to all the great comments is pretty simple and created a really nice quality strip. I had a lot of burn marks until my wife and I were able to consistently feed the board. I started with a 20' 1X6 WRC board. I cut blocks that were slightly over my expected strip width, about 7/8". I took all these 7/8"X~5/8"X20' boards to my planer. Plane these down from 7/8" to 3/4". Now cut strips slightly thcker than your desired width, I went .200" expecting to go to 3/16" final. Run all these through the planer on both sides to get to a final thickness. There were a couple of boards that didn't follow the first plane process to 3/4". You'll notice this right away when stripping unless your ripping work was really nice, mine wasn't.

Phil

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Strip: Stripping the wood
mark C -- 2/27/2014, 10:34 pm
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Rod Tait -- 2/27/2014, 11:43 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 2/27/2014, 11:46 pm
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Justin -- 2/28/2014, 9:42 am
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Dan -- 2/28/2014, 9:55 am
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Olli -- 2/28/2014, 11:27 am
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mark C -- 2/28/2014, 7:03 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 2/28/2014, 7:26 pm
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mark C -- 2/28/2014, 7:38 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 3/1/2014, 12:11 am
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ancient kayaker -- 3/1/2014, 9:50 am
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Greg Galloway -- 3/1/2014, 11:41 am
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Jack Hawkins -- 3/1/2014, 9:28 am
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rich -- 3/1/2014, 12:33 am
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Etienne Muller -- 3/1/2014, 3:55 am
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rich -- 3/1/2014, 8:55 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 3/1/2014, 8:59 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/1/2014, 9:13 am
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george jung -- 3/1/2014, 8:54 pm
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rich -- 3/2/2014, 9:27 am
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Etienne Muller -- 3/2/2014, 11:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/3/2014, 1:13 am
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Etienne Muller -- 3/3/2014, 3:42 am
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Phil -- 3/7/2014, 3:39 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 3/7/2014, 11:41 pm
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Phil -- 3/8/2014, 10:41 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/9/2014, 12:50 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/9/2014, 12:50 am