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Prepare Wood for Floating Shelves

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What happens here

Select 8-foot long, 8-quarter (approximately 2 inches thick) white ash boards. Cut two 40-inch lengths from these boards using a miter saw. These will be the shelves. Trim the edges of the boards using a table saw to a final width of 8 inches, cleaning up any rough edges. If available, use a thickness planer to reduce the board thickness to 1 1/2 inches for a refined look. Finally, sand both sides of the boards, starting with 80-grit sandpaper and progressing to 120-grit, until they are smooth and free of imperfections.

Goal: Cut 8-foot long, 2-inch thick white ash boards to 40-inch lengths for the shelves, then plane and sand them to achieve a smooth finish.

Tools and materials

  • 120-grit Sandpaper
  • 80-grit Sandpaper
  • Hearing Protection
  • Miter Saw
  • Orbital Sander
  • Safety Glasses
  • Table Saw
  • Thickness Planer
  • White Ash Boards

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and I'll show how pretty it is I picked out 8-foot long white ash boards that's eight quarter sawn thing now that's just fancy woodworking ways of saying it's rough cut which means it's not perfect and eight quarter basically means in thickness it's about two inches thick I cut to 40 inch long boards that will be the shelves trimmed to clean up the edges using my table saw to final width of eight inches and then cleaned up the boards using my sander going from 80 grit to 120 grit now side note I have a thickness planer in my shop so I made a few passes to bring the boards down to an inch and a half thickness if you don't have one don't worry sometimes you can find some of these boards to be flat enough to be used as is for the shelves in the house

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