Solid Pine

These past few weeks have been very busy! I finally replaced one of the machines in the shop with a larger and much more powerful version (more on that later). I've also returned from vacation, and started work on the latest project.

This project is being made from veneer core pine plywood and solid pine for the trim and doors etc. Here is a shot of some of the materials at this point:




When it arrives at the shop its in rough form and looks like this:





It gets sent through the jointer (new machine I mentioned earlier..)




First I clean up one face...





Then i joint one edge exactly 90 degrees to the face.




It then gets sent through the planer to make the opposite face parallel to the first face and to thickness it down to it's (almost) finished thickness.





As I'm working the pieces I keep track of them by using pencil lines to mark the faces that are as good as they can get using machines. The final surface will get finished by hand from this point on.




Finally the pieces get ripped to width (in this case 2 1/4" for rails and stiles).





All that's left to do now is cut them all down to length and we'll have our rough pieces ready for milling into rails and stiles.