WORKING WITH ROUGH-SAWN BOARDS

Serious woodworkers prefer to buy roughsawn wood and then flatten and machine those boards down to their desired thicknesses and widths. The advantage is that the boards have warped to their final shape, so when they’re flattened, they stay perfectly flat, straight and stable. However, that calls for two specialty tools, a jointer and a planer. To learn about this process, go to familyhandyman.com and search for “how to plane rough lumber.”