 buying S4S boards
I have a planer but no jointer. I've experimented with milling rough wood using my router as a jointer, but I need to get a better fence set up for that to be really viable. So for a side table I just built, I bought S4S poplar (it's going to be in our girls' room and will be painted) from a local place that only recently started selling surfaced wood at all. They sell it in 12 and 14 foot boards. I had them cut a couple of 12 ft boards in half for me so I could fit them in my Honda Element. I was a little disappointed to find that some of the boards were twisted or cupped. Why pay for someone to mill the lumber if it's not going to be flat? Is it normal for surface wood to not actually be straight and flat? I bought it because I thought they'd do a better job milling it than I could, but that turned out to not really be the case.
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Bob
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