Skip Planing Lumber

With a single side planer.

Skip planing lumber. It gets the surface to a point where it will drive through a planer better. Step 5 place the side that you have skip planed facedown on the table of your planer and plane the board until the upper side is clean. So skip planed lumber. I wouldnt even consider planing for less than 10 bdft.

It is generally done so you can see the figure in the wood better than in the rough stage. Longleaf lumber mills its skip planed paneling with a tongue and groove profile in 34 and 12 thickness. Skip planed paneling is longleaf lumbers option for a reclaimed wood paneling that is rustic and refined. It is an amish mill.

Thats for skip hit or miss planing one pass each side to 1516 thick on 44 lumber. What is skip planing. All of the lumber i purchase from my local mill and kiln is skip planed. All too often ive picked lumber particularly walnut thinking it had a certain character only to find out once i started planing it it was completely different.

Even if the boards fall onto the floor as they come out of the machine i can easily reassemble them with the grain all going the same way and get right back to work. Any light pass would be considered skip planed. Sending a board through a planer removing only small amounts of material to preserve character and saw milling marks in the wood. I was lucky to buy 1000 bdft of cherry and walnut that was all skip planed so nice for gluing up panels or table tops from what the guy said mennonites charge 10 20 cents a bdft for skip planing i think he gets his lumber cut by them.

The milling process selectively removes the original surface exposing the grain beneath in some places and preserving it in others. It also helps expose the grain some. The planer literally skips parts of. The skip planed lumber ends up being full sized to the quartter inch.

Yes skip planing is just a slight clean up. And most of the other mills in the area are going to the same method except one and i dont go there any longer. To get back into the swing of things i wanted to share a more comprehensive video on how i mill rough lumber to. Surface 4 sides s4s.

Additional planing is 05 per pass. When i stack boards for planing i look at the marks and orient them all the same way. Skip planing is a term that indicates just a light pass was taken and the entire material isnt cleaned up. Face down and pointing away from the planer see 5 steps to foursquare boards page 86.