ear3
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I did a bunch of reclaimed oak pieces in the past few months, and this was the most recent. Custom shelving unit for a TV/Guest room. The designer provided the hardware, which is this clever steel bar/locking nut system that fits into dadoes I milled along the edges of each plank, which you can see in the close-up shots.
The planks themselves are 14" deep and 1 1/4" thick (mix of 2' and 3' lengths). I was starting from 2x8 rough sawn joists, so I dressed all the boards separately with a mix of hand planes and the thickness planer to flatten them out and hit the approximate thickness (leaving 1/32 or so extra in case any further flattening was required after glue up). Since my machine flattening capacity ends at 13", I did have to do some additional jointing/flattening by hand on a couple of the boards after edge joining to level out some minor cupping that had developed during glue-up.
Finally they were cut to length on the MFT and then I added 1/2" deep 5/8 dadoes on the underside with the OF2200.
The planks themselves are 14" deep and 1 1/4" thick (mix of 2' and 3' lengths). I was starting from 2x8 rough sawn joists, so I dressed all the boards separately with a mix of hand planes and the thickness planer to flatten them out and hit the approximate thickness (leaving 1/32 or so extra in case any further flattening was required after glue up). Since my machine flattening capacity ends at 13", I did have to do some additional jointing/flattening by hand on a couple of the boards after edge joining to level out some minor cupping that had developed during glue-up.
Finally they were cut to length on the MFT and then I added 1/2" deep 5/8 dadoes on the underside with the OF2200.
