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First post here. Lurking for a while and need your guys' brilliant minds to help me out.
I recently built a bench. It is u shaped and crazy sturdy. Used 2x6 frame, 4x4 posts, and Simpson RTC42 brackets. After all that, I decided to go low bid and top the entire thing with 2 layers of 23/32 CDX plywood, screwed and glued with Titebond. Because it is u shaped and pretty sizable (6' legs of the u, 13' center width), seams in the plywood were unavoidable. Through some careful design, got it down to 3 seams.
Built the thing and everything went together great with one exception. There is a seam at the center of the 13' wide section, that didn't match up height wise. The other two seams are perfect. Upon closer inspection, it appears that the plywood was actually thicker at one end! I'm not kidding, it looks like one ply of one sheet is double thick the last couple inches. I swear, no joke, you can see it by looking at the sheet installed.
Long story short, there's a 3/32" to 1/8" difference in height between the two sheets at the seam. It is driving me nuts (did I mention I'm OCD?)! When you try to slide something across the surface, it catches every time. It's about the thickness of an entire ply so I'm not sure sanding would turn out looking good. Any ideas to even it out?
Most of my buddies just tell me to deal with it. Maybe I will if there is no good fix.
Please keep in mind I am trying to preserve the rigidity of the bench (long story).
TIA for all the help!!!
P.S. I can attach photos if necessary.
I recently built a bench. It is u shaped and crazy sturdy. Used 2x6 frame, 4x4 posts, and Simpson RTC42 brackets. After all that, I decided to go low bid and top the entire thing with 2 layers of 23/32 CDX plywood, screwed and glued with Titebond. Because it is u shaped and pretty sizable (6' legs of the u, 13' center width), seams in the plywood were unavoidable. Through some careful design, got it down to 3 seams.
Built the thing and everything went together great with one exception. There is a seam at the center of the 13' wide section, that didn't match up height wise. The other two seams are perfect. Upon closer inspection, it appears that the plywood was actually thicker at one end! I'm not kidding, it looks like one ply of one sheet is double thick the last couple inches. I swear, no joke, you can see it by looking at the sheet installed.
Long story short, there's a 3/32" to 1/8" difference in height between the two sheets at the seam. It is driving me nuts (did I mention I'm OCD?)! When you try to slide something across the surface, it catches every time. It's about the thickness of an entire ply so I'm not sure sanding would turn out looking good. Any ideas to even it out?
Most of my buddies just tell me to deal with it. Maybe I will if there is no good fix.
Please keep in mind I am trying to preserve the rigidity of the bench (long story).
TIA for all the help!!!
P.S. I can attach photos if necessary.