ORIGINAL: goirish
How are you cutting the blocks Gene. What kind of saw are you using. I'm an old furniture builder so I have some knowledge of different saws and planners.
My club has two precision table saws I use for ripping hardwood into sticks and we have a recut saw I use for cutting my sheeting. We also have a micro over head sander so I can cut my sheeting just a bit over size then sand down to a smooth and sized sheet.
I assume a recut saw is the real name but it looks like a very large or giant size band saw. I also use the joiner, I gang a stack of sheeting then run it through the joiner to get perfectly straight edges.
At some point in time I took photos of our shop and posted some on RCU. If there is any of the equipment you would like to see I can take a camera back into the shop for you. It's the slow time of the season here and the shop is pretty much empty at the moment, the heat birds have all flown away to there cooler climates for a few months.

The shop becomes very crowded from about October to about early June.