Eric, It's been sitting around for two years now waiting for me to get to it.
The only problem with letting it season like that a couple pieces took on a life
of their own and it is tough trying to keep them flat while planning or
routing. Once bolted down they look better.
Grant 50 3100
Eric and Linda St.Phillips wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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