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[Hunter]

I plan to mill cherry at some time. Is one inch is good thickness fir cherry?

[Daniël Bos]

I plan to mill cherry at some time. Is one inch is good thickness fir cherry?

One inch is the best thickness for any timber, provided you want 18-20mm of useful timber thickness....

 

What do you want to do with your cherry should dictate how you cut it

 

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[MattyF]

One inch is the best thickness for any timber, provided you want 18-20mm of useful timber thickness....

 

What do you want to do with your cherry should dictate how you cut it

 

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Thicker the better from my experience of cherry as it warps and cracks like nothing else I've milled!

[Jamespepperpot]

Thicker the better from my experience of cherry as it warps and cracks like nothing else I've milled!

 

 

I've had the opposite and found it pretty stable even when I milled in green in the middle of July. Did paint the ends straight away and stuck it under cover

[MattyF]

Fresh or had it been sitting ? I had saved mine for a couple of years and painted and stacked out of sun light, I was at a carvers yesterday and he had some that was over 5 years old and was dripping wax on it as working it was cracking so bad!

[Rough Hewn]

Cut 2-2.5 inch slabs. Cracks less than 1 inch.

 

 

 

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[Jamespepperpot]

Fresh or had it been sitting ? I had saved mine for a couple of years and painted and stacked out of sun light, I was at a carvers yesterday and he had some that was over 5 years old and was dripping wax on it as working it was cracking so bad!

 

 

It was felled about a month prior. Was a perfect straight stem though. Often can tell if a board is going to crack from what the butt end looks like. I milled 2&1/4 and 1&1/4 boards and they hardly moved. Oak on the other hand....

[wills-mill]

Cherry can be a right cheeky bugger, especially the grafted/flowering varieties much more than woodland species. They can have crazy spiral growth, and the boards are then just a nightmare.

[MattyF]

Cherry can be a right cheeky bugger, especially the grafted/flowering varieties much more than woodland species. They can have crazy spiral growth, and the boards are then just a nightmare.

 

 

That would make perfect sense then ! I have a large cherry log I've put off milling being so concerned over the last bit I did.

[ucoulddoit]

The following pictures are 2 inch and 1 inch cherry I had milled years ago and show quite a difference in distortion. The 1 inch planks were from a small tree, just 12 inches diameter and the narrower plank has cupped almost 20mm! The wider one has cupped about 10mm, so if planed to an even thickness about half the timber would be wasted. Although it might look like firewood, I've kept these thin planks for sentimental reasons as it was the first tree I had milled and it had been planted by my parents. Ripped into narrow short sections it will yield good timber for small stuff and I'm still aiming to use it...... By contrast, the 2 inch planks from a larger tree are much less distorted.

 

I would now mill thicker and re-saw after drying the timber if I wanted thin planks for a specific project.

 

Andrew