Spruce

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On 21 Apr 2005 23:52:07 GMT, "Caveat Empty Headed." wrote:


I've located a source of spruce in British Columbia that appears to be very
good. http://www.timberwright.ca/aircraft.html
anyone dealt with them?


One of our Fly Baby list folks visited them last summer, and was very pleased.
You should be able to access his posting at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flybabylist/message/4034

Ron Wanttaja

One LEETLE thing !! Order your boards the approximate width of their
final use size---i.e. final size + 1/2 " or so for final STRAIGHTENING
AND TRIMMING. I had some beautiful edge grain Doug Fir Kiln Dried, that
had aged in storage for some time nice and flat and straight.. --
I ripped a 1X6 down the middle and had two pieces with about a 1" bow
toward the middle, you could see it opening up as you sawed it--14 Ft.
long. This board had a slight change in the # of growth rings across
the board...must have set up a stress due to the difference in density
across---was probably a small--(relatively} tree.

to get my 4-1/2" spars out of a 5-1/2" board, I sawed about 3/16" off
each side --checked for straightness, let it set a day or two & repeated
the process till I got down to planing & checking after each run
through the planer..

DON'T TAKE IT ALL OFF ONE SIDE AT ONCE !!---Jerry

If your going to go through this much trouble (just a choice of words),
you might want to consider ordering your lumber rough sawn. Although I
used Doug Fir, I ordered my materials rough sawn and was able to mill
twice as many of the smaller parts from a 1" rough sawn board than 3/4"
planed material. It really keeps the cost down. On the down side, you
will have to invest in a cheap planer.
Lou