Making Shavings

Another great day in the shop and more shavings made, in fact that should be it, at least for now. I hope. All the boards have been run through the joiner and table saw. Next step to fill the holes and sand them.

Here is the last bunch completed, I was running out of room in the shop to put the boards. Luckily I don't need the work bench at this time.

After the boards came off the joiner, and squaring them up on the table saw, this is all the came off the rough edge. It wasn't as much a I expected, all though there is a 3/4 full bag of shavings that accounts for the edge we don't see here.

Making Progress

I've run a few more boards through the joiner, table saw, and squared them up nicely, only when I cut in the tongue and groves and lay them will I know. Besides, once they are down I have to remember, they are 116+ years old and if they aren't perfect, we did want a little character.

A look at my joining set up, I'm standing by the in feed roller.

This is a great start, I'll have to put the rest on the work bench. I think my saw horses are at there max. The green tap is holding a glue job in, I what to save as much width as possible. Again it adds character.

Squaring things up

Now that the floors board have been planned, it's time to start squaring them up. Several passes on the joiner, then onto the table saw to make sure they're parallel. I was a little amazed that most of the boards were out of parallel by about a 1/4 inch. It didn't talk long to get this pile done, then again they were only 3 and 7 foot long. I suspect it may take a bit of finesse to run the 11 footers through the joiner. One step at a time I keep reminding myself.

This is what I was able to complete this morning.