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Offline arachnid

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Re: white oak backed ipe dimensions
« Reply #30 on: February 28, 2014, 08:47:05 am »
white oak is a great backer as long as it has straight grain, quartersawn or flatsawn?
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Can`t remember, I had it for some time now.....

Offline arachnid

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Re: white oak backed ipe dimensions
« Reply #31 on: March 02, 2014, 02:06:32 pm »
Well, an interesting thing happend today.
I have a jigsaw table that I built for my Bosch jigsaw and thought I`d use it to thin down the ipe.
When I got to the middle of the board, I noticed it cut it fairly well (for a jig saw) so
I decided to go on and try to rip the board.
Long story short- I ended up with 2 staves of ipe, each one 1/2" thick.
Guess I can make 2 bows after all (just need to find something to back the second one).

I`ll never think the same about jigsaws.....