Hi everyone,I went a bought a bunch ~90 Bd ft of Cherry Saturday. (Not going to make most recent mistake of not enough mahogany.) Beautiful. I have three questions....1) Most all the boards have some fine black squiggles in them. Seem to be more in areas where branches take off. What are these. I was going to include them in the blanket chest for niece, but mother in law said no-couple of good reasons there. Anyway, they are really fine. Is that pith, or minerals? Is it a structural weakness? They persist with planing. I will use a kind of rustic element later on a diffo project. Just not on this blanket chest for niece.2) I have 8" Jet joiner. Some of the boards are >8". I will probably just do the best I can, then use a hand plane......There seem to be many different ways of handling this situation. Also, I found out through my favorite default method (ignorance/stupidity) to be VERY careful about joining boards to put EQUAL pressure across the face of the board, or.........it will come out wedged 3) What eraser do you all use to take off pencil marks on boards. I use chalk sometimes, a fat HD shop pencil other times. 4) What advise of working with cherry...we aren't taking about blotching finishing yet?
Thanks
David