Now that the Strongback halves have done their duty as support for machining the strips it’s time to assemble them into their proper form. In the photo above I’ve got the halves laying on their sides with the middle section clamped in place. You can see there’s a 1/4″ drill bit taped to the corners […]
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Back to work – Starting the Strongback
After giving the planks 8 months to dry out, they’re ready to get machined into strips. To do that the planks have to go through the thickness planer, the table saw, and a router table. Each of those operations requires an infeed and outfeed of about 18′ each. So the doors for the shop need […]