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I glued up a smallish panel from soft maple and cherry. The wood sat in the garage for about a month before working with it. The boards went, maple-cherry-maple-cherry-maple, with the outside maple and cherry 3.5" wide and the center maple 2.5" wide. The pieces were 3/4" thick. The end grain was set up as shown in the photos. I glued them up to have the best face up. The panel was flat until I started to thickness it with hand planes. It was cupping while I was planing it. Checking for flatness the center was always lower, and at the time I thought I was taking more from the center. As it turned out the panel was cupping. In hindsight I should have thicknessed the boards to 0.5" before gluing up. But did I do anything wrong during the glue up, setup, planing that could cause the cupping? Could I have prevented the cupping? THanks
The piece was going to be a pizza peel for the wife. I'm not sure how well it's going to work now.
I glued up a smallish panel from soft maple and cherry. The wood sat in the garage for about a month before working with it. The boards went, maple-cherry-maple-cherry-maple, with the outside maple and cherry 3.5" wide and the center maple 2.5" wide. The pieces were 3/4" thick. The end grain was set up as shown in the photos. I glued them up to have the best face up. The panel was flat until I started to thickness it with hand planes. It was cupping while I was planing it. Checking for flatness the center was always lower, and at the time I thought I was taking more from the center. As it turned out the panel was cupping. In hindsight I should have thicknessed the boards to 0.5" before gluing up. But did I do anything wrong during the glue up, setup, planing that could cause the cupping? Could I have prevented the cupping? THanks
The piece was going to be a pizza peel for the wife. I'm not sure how well it's going to work now.
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