Carpentry and Woodworking - Face & Edge

Hi,

First of all sorry for my english, cause english is not my prime language!

When you come to shave a piece of wood with a plane machine, you have to shave face and an edge to have them straight and square, right?

What to start first, the face or the edge?

Regards,
C G

Hello cool guy and welcome!

If I were doing it, I would use 2 different power tools:

1). A thickness planer. If you wanted your wood to be 3/4" thick, you would first plane the face (the wide side) down to the correct thickness.

2). A jointer. I would then use the jointer to square up one edge (the narrow side). you would then run it through a table saw to rough cut it to the correct width. Then you would use the jointer again to remove those saw marks.

If you have a thickness planer, you can also run boards through vertically to do the edge, provided they aren't too tall.

If you only have a jointer, you would do the face, then the edge.

Hi Xsleeper,

Thanks for you perfect reply!

Regards,
C G

Another question is that I have a 10ft long piece of wood by 9” width and 2” thick.

I want to cut it in three long pieces to have three pieces 10ft by 2” square.

First problem is that the wood is not straight and obviously I want these three pieces straight as possible.

Where do I start first?

(I have the two power tools mentioned above)

Thanks in advance.

You have to get a straight edge first. You should be able to accomplish this with your jointer.

Hi and thanks for your reply.

normally my question is more applied for the face instead of the edge!

thx