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Selecting lumber for an invisible glued-up panel In this master class episode, Tom McLaughlin demonstrates how he selects lumber and mills it to prepare for an almost invisible slip-matched panel joint. Sponsored by Welcome to this week’s edition of “Ben bragging about his job!” I’ve always been intimidated at the lumberyard and in turn, I always rush through my lumber selection. Many times, that means I instinctually buy the prettiest boards that I can find. Granted, this is better than instinctually buying the ugliest boards, but in my time working at Fine Woodworking I have learned that many times the prettiest board isn’t the best board for a piece of furniture. In the days before Covid, all of the woodworkers at the office would pile into a van and go to the lumberyard together as one big (kinda dorky) woodworking gang. Once we muscled our way into the lumber sheds, we’d help each other dig through stacks of hardwood pointing out grain el ....