how do you control splitting/checking???
It's cut from a laminated baltic birch 1 x 12, so I would think it would hold up. Same boards as my personalized eagles, and I do over a hundred of those a year - with no problems. I wouldn't take a chance using wood that thin that wasn't glued up.
Did the normal rough and finish cuts. Then profiled the outside and 2 inside cuts. Used tabs on the outside profile - nothing on the inside. Just made sure I cut into the spoilboard to get it all out.
we ask that now...
Not Plywood. These are glued up BB wood strips finger jointed made into 1 x 12 x 48 boards. Menards buys one of kind boards like this from mills when they clean up their scrap piles. They'll by containers of them (these are from a Swedish mill, I think) and put them in the stores as a special. You never know when and what they will have. I usually buy the 2 stores by me out when they have good stuff that I can use. If I go when they have the 11% off week and get another 10% off from the manager for taking them all it makes up for the few unusable spots they have. I also have a pretty good relationship with their lumber buyer at the Wisconsin HQ who lets me know when he has good stuff coming and can usually track down some of the leftovers if I run low. I usually have between 100-400 of certain boards like oak, poplar, BB, and aspen stacked up cause when they're used up, that's it.
that isn't rust...
