Cliff,
Short answer yes.
Long answer… At the start of this project, I thought I might try Masonite but a few LargeScale Centralian gurus had reported their troubles with it. So I thought I better save it for a smaller project to test its robustness. I might have used marine ply, but my table saw is too small to contemplate using a single board. So i went to the salvage yard.
My wood was once cedar flooring for a school. Cedar is almost considered an exotic wood here. In fact, solid steel fencing is cheaper than building a cedar plank fence. It’s not readily available at the hardware stores.
I ran it through the thickness sander just to get some uniformity for gluing purposes. I figured that ¼ mm variance would add up fast with this number of planks I would need. As you can see I didn’t go to furniture planing depths; just deep enough to get the varnish off and get the major defects removed. There’s a few blade blemishes.
Surprisingly there is still a beautiful aroma coming from these boards.
What’s left to do?
I only ask because every morning since the end of the Mik Challege I too have said, “Starting to apply the wood shakes to the building…”
