We got a whole bunch of old 4x4 posts of hard wood from a friend, so we're going to joint and plane those down to usable wood and then do something with them. One thing is likely a workbench top.
There is a mix of ironwood, eucalyptus, and other unidentified types, but all very hard and quite heavy. We were using a shorter jointer before, the infeed table on the new one is as long as the whole other jointer. Also it wasn't even close to as solid, and wasn't cast iron. It's like moving from a toy to the real thing. The problem was that our fence wasn't stiff enough for the super heavy wood and so we were having trouble always getting a perfect square.
It's a lot of fun, eucalyptus smells fantastic.
Also making random cutting boards, need to have right angles for good laminating.
Edited, Jul 28th 2014 10:17am by Xsarus
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