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Everything You Need to Know on Making Bandsaw Boxes
The shop stock includes:
You can choose which woods to laminate into a thicker block, in order to match the desired size and appearance of the box. Note that there is enough stock to include multiple layers of each wood. (There are only 10 maple boards, but each is long enough to be cut into two or three boards the size of the walnut blank, depending on grain direction.)
Use the powered thickness planer to plane the (large) maple board.
Read the grain at the edge of the board, and feed the board so that the grain goes downhill as the piece enters the machine. (The photograph above is correct.) This ensures that the blades cut across the fibers. The other orientation causes the blades to pry the fibers out of the wood, instead of cutting them.
Source: https://workshopcompanion.com/KnowHow/Techniques/Jointing_Planing/3_Planing_KnowHow/3_Planing_KnowHow.htm
Plane one side of the board until it removes material from just part of the board. Flip the board, advance the wheel a quarter of a turn, and and plane the other side. Repeat until both sides are smooth. This creates a board whose surfaces are smooth, flat. The process we are using, skip planing, creates surfaces that are approximately parallel – this will work well enough for our bandsaw boxes. (To create surfaces that are truly parallel, one uses either a separate machine – a jointer – or the thickness planer with a planer sled and shims.)
If you had a board that was already smooth and needed to repeat the process, you would draw pencil lines on it in order to see which areas had been planed.