Sanding is never fun, but everything about how you're doing it makes it far worse than it needs to be. Here are some master tips from an expert woodworker.

Rough-sawn wood is at least 1/4-in. thicker than equivalent S4S wood ... If that doesn’t do it, you’ll just have to sand your way out of the jam. Use chalk to lay out the parts you expect to get out ...

In this example, a large rough-sawn beam with a fairly short span is analyzed. The cross-sectional properties for dressed lumber (S4S) are smaller than those for rough-sawn lumber, and it would be ...