Splintazert Posted April 25, 2018 Report Share Posted April 25, 2018 (edited) Hi all. I bought a really nice, heavily figured plank of wood that was shop planed and looked fairly straight and flat. I split it to make a nice top for a future build, each plank is now 1320 x 175 x 12 mm (52 x 7 x 0.5 inch). Unfortunately, when it was split it warped quite a lot (see the second image where I'm sighting down the length of the plank) It's thin enough to be able to go back down flat again if it's clamped down (as it would be on a body) but should I expect any problems if I do this? Would be a shame to scrap it. The other question is does anyone know what wood it actually might be? (see the first image for a close-up) Thanks in advance. Edited April 25, 2018 by Splintazert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splintazert Posted April 27, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2018 @curtisa Can a moderator move this to a more relevant section such as solidbody chat please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted April 27, 2018 Report Share Posted April 27, 2018 Done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted April 30, 2018 Report Share Posted April 30, 2018 It will depend on what you clamp that to, as to whether it will stay straight. f the boards are sufficiently beefy and straight themselves, you should be okay. As far as identifying the wood, this site is my go to spot for questions of that sort: http://hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/ SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splintazert Posted April 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2018 Thanks @ScottR, that makes sense. It'll be clamped to a nice beefy board. Would you bother dampening the wood a bit first or do you reckon that's overkill? Cheers for the link too, some nice pics on there to go through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted April 30, 2018 Report Share Posted April 30, 2018 If you were going to glue it up to that big beefy board, I would not dampen it. People have tried dampening a warped board and clamping it to a solid straight edge and then heating it up a bit and finally letting it dry out in the clamps in an effort to straighten said boards. Sometimes it works. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader Posted May 4, 2018 Report Share Posted May 4, 2018 I might be a bit late but my 2 cents The lengths will be too short for it to be a problem and if you are going to do a carved top like a Les Paul I'd say there wouldn't be any problem at all. But Joining edge to edge doing a book-match is where it would get tricky. When I was confronted with this problem I glued the top pieces on one at a time, but that still had its issues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splintazert Posted May 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2018 Thanks @Crusader I'll bear that in mind. I reckon it will pull down OK if glued to a sizable piece that's flat, so I'll do my bookmatching that way.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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