Planing of Norway spruce with very varied ring width

A way of defining a “machining ability” is proposed. Cutting forces: The samples from the slow grown spruce give well known results. In this case the cutting forces are linked with specific gravity by a linear relation. For the samples coming from the fast grown spruces (A), there is no significant relationship between the cutting forces and the specific gravity. These different behaviours are illustrated by the aspect of the chips produced by both batches of spruce. Dimensions scattering. Analysis shows clearly that distributions of dimension quality are similar for spruces A and B. That means there is no compression in the thickness of the samples (z axis). Surface, roughness: More than one roughness criterion is needed to describe surface quality. The 8 criteria used in this work describe the vertical distribution of the roughness measurements. For all the samples, best results are measured on A sample.