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11-16-2006, 11:33

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Decks - Nail or Screw

Wing; please explain your reasons for alternatng the grain on deck boards. Having spent 30 plus yeare in the furniture business, alternating the grain in glued up panels was standard practice so that the cupping of the second board offset the cupping of the first board, fourth board offset the third, etc. till you had enough boards to complete the panel. Laying deck boards that are not attached to one another is a different animal all together.
Ann; with all due respect I'll have to differ with you on cupping direction. when a board dries out it will allways cup toward the bark side, so even tho it looks wrong deck boards should be laid bark side down. Far as fasteners are concerned, yes stainless screws would be my first choice, and predrilling the deck board is nearly a must. Frank

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WING; Really don't recall having that problem, but I know there are several different specie of cherry and maybe I've never had black cherry. I've found that dull blades will cause some tearout in gummy cherry, maybe that isn't the correct name for it but it's what we call it around here. It has the dark spots about 1/4-1/2 in. in diamater scattered in the grain. The sawmill where I get it from said they used to sell it for barn lumber, but now he gets a premium for it. I don't really know a lot about it, but I think it is pockets of resin that somehow get trapped in the wood. A little more on the subject of air drying lumber. I've got several old what we called "Monkey Ward" "Lo Load 60" wagon gears that usually sell for 50 bucks on an auction that make real neat lumber drying racks, then you just pull it to the shop, take off what you need and put it back in the shed.

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