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Originally Posted by surferguy
Thanks for the tip about Wetting the wood for mitigate potential tear out. I didn’t know that trick.
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Yeah, it saved me once when I was doing a 3.5' deep butcher block for an island. Because of how it was built (flat sawn wood sliced up and rotated 90º so it was a bunch of 1.5" wide quartersawn pieces glued together) there was naturally going to be grain going in different directions between the various pieces. I had glued it up into three 14" widths so I could fit them through my planer, but no matter which way I sent it through I was getting awful tearout. But spritzing it with water almost completely eliminated that and it worked out great.
I guess there's a reason that big shops have widebelt sanders.