I am excited to get started on a new bedroom suite and have chosen this plan from plansnow.com
http://www.plansnow.com/heirloombed.html
I aquired a bunch of white oak a while back and hope to use it for this project, however, it is all planable to a max of 3/4" and the bed rails and the dresser rails are 1". I am already planning to glue up boards to get to the 1-3/4" legs on all pieces. My question to all of you is whether it is a good idea to try to glue up boards and plane to 1" for the rails?
It seems like it might be a little waste of lumber to glue up and plane but I do have some boards that are not quite cleaned up at 3/4". They can be planed to 1/2" for drawer sides (I am planning to use the drawer lock router bits rather than doing dovetails) but could also be used to glue up for 1" rail stock.
Am I overlooking anything with this approach? I'm thinking if I plane them well and clamp well in the glue up, the seam will be very discrete. What do you think?