Grant,
I sure hope that sawmill wood was at least air dried as you will lose 3/4 of
an inch or so cross grain over the width of the bed as it dries.
Eric St.Phillips
Fairport, NY
1959 GMC 100
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Galbraith <trks@javanet.com>
To: oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 2:54 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Cutting Bed Wood
>Just wanted to pass on my experience this weekend for those of you
>tempted to cut your own bed wood. While the dims on the tech page are
>close I found that your have to cut the two rabbits a tolal of .60 wide
>or by the third board the sill holes don't line up. Also if you only cut
>them 1/16 and 1/18 deep your bed strips will sit 1/8 high. I thought
>this to be too high and as long as I was cutting them again, now on my
>router table I went 1/8 and 3/16 deep which leaves the strips 1/16 proud
>of boards.
> I intially balked at the price of kits and bought some white oak
>planned one side form a sawmill and used the dims from the tech page.
>$45 for the wood seemed like a deal until I noticed the wood varied in
>thickness from end to end and board to board. I payed someone else to
>plane again and being in a hurry asked them to rip boards and cut
>rabbits with a dadoe blade to the dims on the tech page. Now I'm up to
>$90 and start putting boards in. Get to third board and holes are
>misamtched. Thats when I did rabbits again on my router table. The bed
>looks nice but in retrospect this was a tough way to save $100.
>
>Grant 50 3100
>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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