pshupe Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 (edited) So a friend of mine got his hands on a really nice plank of Brazilian rosewood and I have been tasked to take this one board and get as many fret boards as I can out of it. The board is 75" long, by 5" wide and 3/4" thick. Looks like I shoould be able to get 16 boards total out of this piece if it is quite straight and flat. So I figured the best way was to cut it into 4 equal lengths, and cutting the oversized outlines, and jointing and then re-sawing. Let's see how that works out. So here is one of the 1/4s of the board. I marked out a nest set of boards and will cut on the band saw. Here are the nested layout. Looks pretty good. I should have enough all around. I figured I'd joint each side as I will be re-sawing down the middle so the jointed faces will be the under sides of the fret boards. If I can re-saw them thick enough I might joint the other side depending on visual appeal. After jointing both sides they were still quite thick. Shouldn't have a problem re-sawing. I marked a center line and setup the band saw to, hopefully, cut right in half. Worked out well and they were more than thick enough. They look kind of cool book matched. Throw it through the thickness sander to take them down close to finish thickness. The CNC machine will thickness them perfectly. I shot a little video and sped it up about 20X - CLICK HERE FOR CRAZY FAST VIDEO I've actually now cut 8 boards and might be doing another 8. These are spectacular boards. Hopefully I can get some for myself. They are actually a nice chocolate brown colour. Cheers Peter. Edited April 21, 2019 by curtisa Editied formatting as requested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pshupe Posted April 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 (edited) Sorry for the formatting I just cut and pasted from another forum. Please let me know if this is too annoying and I will delete and redo it. Is there a way to change the background colour? I tried changing the font to dark but it keeps the background as dark? Cheers Peter. Edited April 21, 2019 by pshupe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pshupe Posted April 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 I've duplicated that first post. Can a moderator delete that post? Thanks. Cheers Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 some lovely stuff there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 9 hours ago, pshupe said: I've duplicated that first post. Can a moderator delete that post? Thanks. Cheers Peter. Done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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