If you've ever done any resawing on your bandsaw you probably found that you had to feed at an angle to get anywhere close to a straight cut. There are a variety of gizmos available to aid you with your resawing or, you can wing it. I prefer the wing it approach. I layout my boards with a blade width gap drawn on them. I start my cut fairly straight and adjust my feed to keep the blade running where I want it. I am extremely aware of where my fingers and hands are in relation to the blade. I use a push block where possible, and I tend to pull the last quarter inch or so of cut so my hand/fingers are no where close to the emerging blade. The emerging blade can come out in areas you don't expect and a lot of fingers pay the price for that. With the blade inside the wood, you have no way of knowing that it is actually cutting a wedge and will exit right into the supposed good wood. Keep your fingers clear of the blade, use a push block.
I just finished resawing some pallet wood that happened to be cherry. The disassembly on the pallet was done to give me the longest possible boards. I resawed my boards and lost one to a bad case of wedge that wouldn't be worth finishing out. The rest were run through the planer and look pretty good. I got a couple half inchers and the rest cleaned up nice at quarter inch. The half inch stuff will go into a jewelry box and the quarter inch stuff will be sacrificed to my scroll saw. When you are working with pallet wood, or any wood for that matter, that you will send through the planer, check for nails and staples, they can really mess up your day by eating your planer blades. OK, I need to go make some chips...how 'bout you?
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