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NC Iowa | I finally got my basement office paneling done. I did it in native knotty pine from trees my dad planted in 1964. I had to take them down for the septic system and wanted to do something meaningful with them.
I had a local guy cut them with a bandsaw mill. They were then sticked in the hay mow for 10 years. That brought the moisture to about 8%. I ran planed about half on them with my dewalt dw735 planer. My steel blades dulled fast with the hard knots, so I got carbide blades. They lasted much better, but still not great. Those knots are hard. I then took the remaining my unplaned boards to a shop to finish the planing and cut one true straight edge.
I had different widths boards so I laid out a pattern to have the least amount of waste. I used a router with a bevel cutter to put on an edge on the boards so they will resemble car siding. For finish I used 2 coats of sanding sealer shellac to seal the knots and keep the grain from raising from my 3 coats of water based semi gloss polycrylic finish. The water based finish will keep the boards from yellowing as they age.
The basement walls were the icf forms with plastic nailing inserts every 8 inches. Where my joints did not come on the nailing strips, I used a biscuit joiner to glue the ends together. I have a dewalt dw708 sliding compound miter saw I got in 1999, to cut at a perfect 90 degrees, so the joints fit perfectly.
I am fairly satisfied with how it turned out. It was more time consuming than I thought it would be however.
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