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120 board feet of select grade, southern grown sassafras and basswood. You should smell the shop after milling all of the sassafras. 4 passes through the planar: now two smooth surfaces and a perfect 3/4". After innumerable passes through the table saw, we now have a pile of rough cut strips. 2 more passes through the planar, and now we have approximately 175 perfect 3/4" x 9/32" milled strips and 125 gallons of sawdust and wood chips. Now awaiting the arrival of a new router table and then another two passes through the router, and I will have enough strips for two canoes: mine and a second one built by my students as a class project. Now I understand why they charge so much for the pre-made strips. But it was all worth it . . . I love the smell of sawdust, just not sure if I like this much of it.
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