If you’ve ever used resawn wood as a finish material, you know how troublesome it can be to run short by a few boards. The bandsaw operator at the lumberyard is never very happy to get an order for two or three pieces of custom-cut stock, and it can be a real hassle to coax him into putting aside larger jobs to fill your request.
The last time this happened to our crew, we solved the problem with a reciprocating saw running a dull, multi-purpose blade. We secured the work to a pair of sawhorses, and ran the blade flat against the finished side of the wood. The surface texture can be varied by changing the angle of the saw, the number of teeth on the blade and the speed of its reciprocating action. Wide boards can be textured with a longer blade worked from both sides.
Ernie Ale, Santa Ana, CA
