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Timber rip blanks.

Measure the complete stock width or thickness and the intended finished strip dimensions.

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Reserved cut gap and the unusable edge allowance you supply.

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Ignoring cut loss can add an impossible extra finished strip.

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Cutting settings and safe operation are outside geometric yield.

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This illustrative set of supplied inputs demonstrates Board Resaw Yield Calculator. Replace the example measurements and product figures with your own before ordering.

Supplied inputMetric displayUS display
Blank thickness50 mm1.97 in
Finished board thickness10 mm0.39 in
Surfacing allowance per resulting board2 mm0.08 in
Saw kerf3 mm0.12 in
Required finished boards10 10
Yield = floor((blank thickness + kerf)/(finished thickness + surfacing allowance + kerf))Uniform resaw arithmetic only. Grain, defects, moisture movement and machine suitability are excluded.

Source blanks: 4 blanks

Finished boards per blank
3
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Measure the complete stock width or thickness and the intended finished strip dimensions.

Reserved cut gap and the unusable edge allowance you supply.

Ignoring cut loss can add an impossible extra finished strip.

Input for Board Resaw Yield Calculator. Record the value with its unit and quantity basis.

Input for Board Resaw Yield Calculator. Record the value with its unit and quantity basis.

Input for Board Resaw Yield Calculator. Record the value with its unit and quantity basis.

Input for Board Resaw Yield Calculator. Record the value with its unit and quantity basis.

Input for Board Resaw Yield Calculator. Record the value with its unit and quantity basis.

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