Bethany opens the resawn boards so that both sawn edges are down on the bench. As I said earlier, we want to have a continuous grain pattern on all sides. She marks the boards so that she will be able to know how the boards should line up.
  
  

  At the portable planer, she places her marked sides down. She tries to take off as little as possible on the sides that were just resawn. Notice, that the portable planer has the large infeed/outfeed support. This helps to minimize snipe.
  

[See "Portable Planer - Getting the Most from It]

   After each pass, she checks the width. She would like to have the thickness as close to 1/2" as possible.

   A couple of very small passes through the thickness sander gets the boards ready for the next step.

     
   With the boards the right thickness and sanded, she is back at the bench to layout the cuts. She carefully orients the boards so that the two faces that were freshly resawn are both up and running in the same  direction.

   This close-up should show the orientation better. One board should be a "mirror image" of the other. How close they match will depend on how much of each face was lost during the thicknessing. That is why Bethany was careful to take off as little possible.

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