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- From: wilson@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Bob Wilson)
- Subject: Re: thickness planer minimum (thinness planer?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.204157.15494@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <gnc.362.727963591@ace.acadiau.ca> <C1F6BK.II6@boi.hp.com> <1993Jan25.193339.10962@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:41:57 GMT
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- wilson@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Bob Wilson) writes:
- I don't know how to fool our news reader into sending all of a
- message, apparently: Let's try this again...
-
- I have successfully planed cherry and walnut to less than 1/16" on my
- 12" Grizzly planer. (The wood was for my daughter to use as
- wainscoting (sp?) in a doll house.) I resawed to something like 1/8"
- and then held that to a piece of 3/4" ply with 2-sided carpet tape. It
- worked fine.
-
-
- >I first tried a block of plywood with thin guide rails glued on and a
- >"foot" glued on so that I could just lay down the piece to plane and
- >it would be pushed by the foot and held in line by the rails. I
- >wanted to avoid having to fool with the tape. That method
- >resulted in what people here have called "explosions" almost every
- >time. The wood really needed to be held down by the tape. I was afraid
- >I would be unable to pull the planed wood off the tape without
- >splitting, being so thin, but that worked very well. In fact the thin
- >wood is so flexible that the tape/wood sandwich bends and that helps
- >break the adhesive bond.
-
- >This tape is cheap and works well and I recommend this method... While
- >I am quite happy with the Grizzly planer I see no reason this method
- >wouldn't be just as good with others.
-
- >Bob Wilson
- >wilson@math.wisc.edu
-