Warped Boards - How to Straighten them Out Online 12/4/2013

[TJ]

Wednesday 12/4/2013 1:00pm EST

Season's greetings from ShopBot Tools! All I want for Christmas is a straight piece of material to work with; however, our humid summer has left me with some kinks, cups, twist and bows in some of my material. Traditional woodworking equipment does a great job of cleaning up some of these warped boards, but there are some advantages to using CNC to get results that one could not obtain with traditional woodworking equipment. For example, a twisted board going through a planer will only plane the two faces, but it will not plane the twist out of the board. Using a ShopBot I will demonstrate how to successfully machine a twist out of a board and then machine it to a desired thickness.

If anyone has any other examples they would like me to demonstrate please send me an Email, I will be doing my filming today and tomorrow and will gladly add your thoughts to the training if time permits.

As always, if you cannot attend I will be recording this and posting it to our Online Training page. http://www.shopbottools.com/mSupport/tutorials.htm

Thank you all for participating.
TJ

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[VanIslanddan]

I am looking forward to this video. It also caused me to look at the tutorial page for the first time in a long time I was very impressed with the number of videos there now.

[TJ]

If you missed this training and still want to check it out, here are two formats of watching it:

Youtube: http://youtu.be/Cc2_b3EvYSU

Our website: http://www.shopbottools.com/Training/Videos/WarpedBoards.wmv

[scottp55]

Thanks TJ, very practical everyday stuff, especially liked the"resaw"(wood-splitter?) idea. Didn't think we had the Z on the desktop, have to watch it again. Thanks

[cowboy1296]

As simple as it is I never thought about angle iron for logs. Great idea.

[myxpykalix]

TJ,
This was a good video, I learned something. Who says "you can't teach an old dog new tricks?"
Speaking of dogs, we don't want to see pictures of your dogs "junk":D:eek:lol

On your jig with the aluminum L brackets, a thought occurred to me to increase the space under your bit you could do this...

Pocket out a space on the underside of the plywood base and attach the top side of the horizontal L bracket to the underside in that pocket.
Then have a hole in the base where your L brackets stick thru on either side and the round bow of the wood rests in that hole close to the surface of the table and you can drill holes in the side of the L bracket to attach your wood to it.

I think you could gain at least an inch or more in height?
Good job...

[Bob Eustace]

Beautiful work TJ and handy stuff.