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   Guest_ | Jul 15, 1999 10:38pm | #13

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   How do they make a side of 1x rough sawn, could you make smooth into rough with a knife in a planer ? thanks John

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   Guest_ | Jul 10, 1999 08:35am | #1

   *Are you pulling our leg? Let me see....John is the full name for Jack.... Jack " A" ..... is that you Jack???

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   Guest_ | Jul 10, 1999 08:41am | #2

   *Sorry, in case it's not Jack, John, it starts off rough and then is made smooth by planing. You want to reverse the process? Well I guess you could run your saw down the face of it, or easier still you could go and by a piece of rough sawn to start with.RegardsMark

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   Guest_ | Jul 10, 1999 08:58am | #3

   *Hi Mark, No I am not Jack, thats my name. I know it sounds like a stupid question but, I may have access to some really worn white cedar that I think would look better if it was planed down and given more consistant surface but, like rough sawn. It will be used for board & batten siding on a shed and the wood will be super cheap ( take grandparents out to dinner). It still sounds like a stupid question but wanted to know if anybody knew how to do it. Thanks John

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   Guest_ | Jul 10, 1999 10:10am | #4

   *Hi John,Find someone who has a large bandsaw, put a guide fence on it and set it to remove 1/16 off the face or smooth side.Another trick would be to use a large disc sander with a very course sandpaper and run it once along the face to duplicate the circular mark of a saw blade.Sorry but this is the best I can come up with at this time of the morning.Mark, its daytime down under, come up with ideas.Gabe

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   Guest_ | Jul 10, 1999 11:53am | #5

   *Gabe,Your ideas seem fine. What about a belt sander, coarse grit at right angles to the board?RegardsMark

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   Guest_ | Jul 11, 1999 02:26am | #6

   *John,Sometimes we have smooth boards sand-blasted to make them look weathered. It doesn't add any saw marks, but it sure looks old. The sand-blasting takes out the pulp wood and leaves the grain standing.I think your best route would be the re-sawing with the bandsaw. Those are real saw marks. Just a thought.Ed. Williams

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   Guest_ | Jul 11, 1999 10:07am | #7

   *John,Good ideas here from everyone. I was just thinking about how many pieces of nice old cedar shingle and siding I've seen "ruined" with a high pressure power washer. You might think about putting it all up and then having at it with one of those. It'll raise the grain pretty fast.For true sawmarks Gabes idea is the best, but I think Mark's belt sander might be faster.P.S. your grandparents wouldn't have some mahogany laying around...would they? If they do dinners on me :)Good luck,Richard Max

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   Guest_ | Jul 12, 1999 04:15pm | #8

   *Clamp gabes belt sander to a power feeder on a table saw (don't run the saw). Then just keep stuffing boards into the feeder.-Rob

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   Guest_ | Jul 13, 1999 06:25pm | #9

   *Here's what we did to make some 2x lumber look rough-sawn to create ceiling beams (replaced those phoney plastic things).Lay each plank flat across some sawhorses, then use a chainsaw, held horizontally oriented crosscut-wise, and with a very light touch let the chainsaw dance over the surface as you gradually work your way from one end to the other. You can go back over it or just move slower if you want to make it even rougher. When done, it will look like the boards came out of a sawmill with the biggest, meanest, roughest bandsaw you can imagine. Beautiful!

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   Richard_Thurlow | Jul 14, 1999 02:34am | #10

   *John,I had a similar situation a few years back. I took the lumber to a local lumberyard that had a BIG band saw( the blade was 2-3") They ran it through taking just a bit off the face. This resaws the wood exposing a whole new face. I think they charged by the foot.Rich

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   Guest_ | Jul 14, 1999 05:38am | #11

   *Resawing sounds like a good idea, but that would just make saw marks, right? The rough sawn I've seen looks like the grain is as raised as Buckwheat's hair. Wetting the wood may do the trick. Experiment with different liquids (ammonia, vinegar, etc.)Also, putting the blade--20 tooth?--on backwards in your table saw with a slow feed rate, what would that do?

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   Guest_ | Jul 15, 1999 02:38am | #12

   *. . . create smoke and burn marks to taste!!

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    Guest_ | Jul 15, 1999 10:38pm | #14

    *Try a rotary wire brush in a drill motor.A friend of mine has some rough sawn trim on his garage door that looks as if it were cut with a circular saw blade or roughed with a disk of about 20' diameter (that's no typo I mean 20 feet). I still can't figure out how they made those swirls -- they go across the grain.