Pine Bedroom Built-in - Part IV

In the beginning there was a pile of rough sawn yellow pine.. and then there was a pile of planed and jointed pine boards and imbetween was a lot of work (and slivers). On Saturday I pulled out the rough sawn pine boards for this project and set them out against the garage wall and gave them a once over and sorted through them and determined roughly where each would be used and to make sure I had enough boards. Then we began to plane them this aft.

After 5 hrs of work and about 7 garbage cans full of wood shavings we have all the boards rough planed and jointed. By rough planing, I mean taking the boards and jointing both edges just to get rid of some of the slivers and hopefully straightening them enough to be able to start ripping pieces from them later. Then planing the boards on both faces in order to reveal the true surface of the board - basically making them smooth on both sides but not bringing them to a final thickness. The boards still vary in thickness between about 7/8" and 1".

Later this week I'll line the boards up against the wall, make final decision on where the boards will be used - the planing revealed a few cracks in what was one of the best boards that had been destined for the dresser top. It may simply require ripping the board on the crack and then gluing back together or it may mean readjusting and using a different board in the top. That's it for this post.