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Acquire and Prepare Wood Boards

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What happens here

The project begins with the acquisition of 61 board feet of ash wood, chosen for its lighter weight compared to oak, reasonable cost, and sturdiness. The boards are brought into the workshop, stacked, and then individually passed through a jointer to flatten one face and one edge, followed by a planer to achieve a consistent thickness and smooth surfaces. After initial milling, the boards are cut to rough length using a miter saw, ensuring enough extra material for final trimming after glue-up.

Goal: The first step involves acquiring suitable wood (ash wood in this case) and preparing it for construction by milling, planing, and cutting to initial dimensions.

Tools and materials

  • Ash Wood Boards
  • Hearing Protection
  • Jointer
  • Miter Saw
  • Planer
  • Safety Glasses

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started. To get this started, I picked up about 61 board feet of my favorite wood species, which is ash, white ash. The reason I like it is because it's lighter than oak, though it doesn't have the yellowish amber look to it. Uh it's not too expensive and it's super sturdy. We're going to start milling this puppy up. It's going to take a while. 12 boards, 61 board feet. Take a wild guess how much this cost. $500. Close, four. And we might be at five or six cuz I don't think I got enough. I didn't stop to just calculate. I just kind of went, "Ah, this looks like enough." Measure with your eyes. One of those. I don't care what they tell you, milling sucks. There are some weirdos out there who's like, "Oh, it's therapeutic. I actually like it." I don't. I like when there's shorter boards, not 10-footers. That's just All right, off to the table saw, then planer. When you're working with beautiful, clean, primo wood, it's exactly looking the way you need to look, nice and clean, nice and straight, nice and square. But, what we're going to do next, we're going to start chopping up to size. I'm thinking because my TV is 57 in wide, give it a few inches on each side for spacing, plus a little extra for that rough, you know, glue up and then trim to size. I'm going to cut it all to 62 and then see where that takes me.

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