re: Milling your own lumber

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Luckily father in laws a carpenter and he has a 24" planer.

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Do you know how long the dry period takes on on cypress down here?

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I've been building some things with some 4/4 cypress I was given. First, you need a jointer to flatten a board. A planer will just spit out thinner boards with the same bends and twists. You can make some jigs to flatten a board with a planer, but you'll be spending 5x's as long doing it.

As far as drying time, the wood I used was kept in a shed with a de-humidifier for over a year and there's still a good bit of movement in it when I mill it. I really only use it for projects that don't require precise squareness, etc..