I still had a large slab of highly figured cherry lying around that I acquired for making presentation quality hexagonal wooden rod tubes (I make standard wooden rod tubes from run-of-the-mill woods like tulipwood / yellow poplar). I already made two rod tubes from this slab of wood using a bandsaw to cut slats and running them through the thickness planer to smooth them and reduce thickness to final dimensions - about 4.5 mm. Unfortunately this results in patches of strong tearout at some of the more highly figured sections. So I came up with a new procedure to cut and prepare thin slats - basically directly to final thickness on the table saw, with using the thickness planer only for final smoothing/ removing table saw marks. However I wasn’t quite sure whether this would work with full length (2pc rod) slats, so I decided to cut off a piece of the cherry slab wide enough to cut 6 slats, and divided that into a length sufficient for a 3pc tube and a short length (about 50 cm), and us...