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Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
By:Terry Haines
Date: 2/10/2009, 11:41 am
In Response To: Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner? (Paul G. Jacobson)

: If you can't afford a high-priced saw sometimes you ha e to resort to other
: techniques.

: PGJ

I don't have enough space in my workshop to run boat-length strips through a tablesaw so I use a handheld circular saw. I can keep the thickness spread down to about 0.01" (1/4 mm) if that's good enough for your needs.

Four things to note: finish quality fine-kerf blade (cost as much as the saw), saw bearing must be in good shape (I have a cheap but new saw I use for this purpose alone), zero-clearance ply sole attached to the metal sole of the saw, and a perfectly straight guide at least 3x as long as the sole so the saw enters and leaves in line. The ply sole and guide can have a chisel front edge to shed the sawdust, which must be kept from getting under the guide if accuracy is essential. Ideally, glue the guide to the sole of the thickness is always the same, although I use clamps.

I put a sheet of insulation foam on my work table to protect it from the blade and lay the plank on top of that, held with several strips of double-sided tape. The plank stays put until the last strip is cut, and I can usually strip entire plank in one operation, and it's very quick. Just vacuum between runs.

Messages In This Thread

Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Paul Lueders -- 2/6/2009, 1:49 pm
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/7/2009, 11:04 am
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Terry Haines -- 2/10/2009, 11:41 am
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Paul Lueders -- 2/7/2009, 11:49 am
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Etienne Muller------WebKitFormBoundary3t+uojWj1lA6 -- 2/7/2009, 1:09 pm
Everything Clayton said. *NM*
Roy Morford -- 2/7/2009, 1:19 pm
Re: Everything Clayton said.
Daniel from sweden -- 2/7/2009, 2:12 pm
Re: Everything Clayton said.
Bill Hamm -- 2/8/2009, 12:26 am
Re: Everything Clayton said.
Roy Morford -- 2/8/2009, 12:19 pm
Re: Everything Clayton said.
Bill Hamm -- 2/9/2009, 1:02 am
Re: Everything Clayton said.
Mike Savage -- 2/7/2009, 5:02 pm
Re: Everything Clayton said.
Paul Lueders -- 2/7/2009, 5:01 pm
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
don f -- 2/7/2009, 10:44 am
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Paul Lueders -- 2/7/2009, 11:58 am
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
don f -- 2/8/2009, 11:18 am
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Bill Hamm -- 2/9/2009, 12:58 am
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Clayton Plunkett -- 2/6/2009, 7:42 pm
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Paul Lueders -- 2/6/2009, 10:05 pm
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Paul Lueders -- 2/6/2009, 10:04 pm
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Pedro Almeida -- 2/6/2009, 6:37 pm
Re: Material: Strips into thickness planner?
Kudzu -- 2/6/2009, 5:14 pm