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For those of you that use double sides...are you typically preparing your own "slices" from boards/billets or are you taking purchased sides (typically 1/8") and then slicing them down even further? Seems if you have something like a Resaw King blade, you'd need to split the side *exactly* down the middle (with very little margin of error) to get two usable slices with just enough for cleanup through a drum sander. It seems dicey to me.

Thanks,
Charlton

Carlton, glue your side to a another board. I use a big piece of fir, 4x material. Nice and stable platform to resaw. You can get two slices from one side that way. Sometimes on my second cut the blade is taking half a blade width of my sacrificial board. I use a commercial mahogany veneer for my middle lamination. Like to have 3 laminates. Not a fan of 2, always an odd number if possible when doing laminates.
L.

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Well, that's daring!

Lenox Diemaster 2 1/2 x .025. Hook tooth 4 per inch.

L.

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I have found that gluing billets for re-saw to a stable slave block is a great idea (not mine) I use large glued up MDF slaves. The added control plus preventing the billets from cupping makes the job much easier.

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.075 exterior side piece and 2 laminates mahog or walnut or sycamore.o22 most of the veneer is bought from certainly veneer. There are several ways to do it if you resaw comm stock you are at the whim of the supplier.If you cut your own stock to size then you can control the overall thickness. E.G. I resaw local walnut to .125 and then thickness sand the piece to .75 to .80 sand and scrape then add 2 , .022 commercial walnut veneers, or whatever your choice of veneers

I agree. So close no room for any error at all!

I use sequence matched veneer "scraps" to lay up sides and backs. It saves a lot of resawing and some very beautiful veneers can be found pretty cheap. A quick scan of eBay showed some ebony veneer ($50) that could make a back and side set for about $60 + labor.

Routine resawing with proper set up, only 5" tall. Pretty easy to cut perfect 1/16" slices. I am not seeing the risky part. No more daring than taking a side and putting it in a bender. At least with the resawing you get 4 show faces so you could somehow mess up 2 of them and still be ok. For an example if you were sawing some nice Koa and you messed up a piece you could get some low grade stuff and use that for the inside. Show piece on outside, commercial mahogany or some other mild wood in middle, lower grade stuff on inside.
Anyway there are processes way more risky than simple resawing. Worst case you ruin a set of sides, you mess up cutting binding channels and the consequences are much worse.
L.

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It seemed "risky" to me only because with 0.125" of material and a kerf of, say, 0.034", slicing right down the middle would net you about 0.045" of material before sanding. I suppose if you're using thinner pieces then maybe it's not so risky after all. I should give this a try sometime.

Re sawing a 1/8" side, you are going to end up with two .030" sheets (if everything goes right) before sanding. I think most people doing double side are using .040-.060.

No problem sawing .060 slices off billet.

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Pat

.034" sounds like a "marketing" kerf! lol

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