Planing to width
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10 September 2015 at 7:02 pm #130273
When prepping stock, I have been ripping on the bandsaw and then hand planing to width. Are there any tricks to planing the two pieces that are supposed to be the same dead to width? It seems that even if I am working to a pencil line if I plane then dead even, then flip one 180 there is a slight discrepancy… So then I true them up again. Then flip 180. Rinse and repeat. I can then check the planes surface as if I was going to bookmatch the pieces to see if there is a light gap or if they are straight. Finally they become (mostly) identical and straight. This takes forever. What is the trick to planing to wodth accurately and quickly? I don’t own a table saw. They scare me to death.
10 September 2015 at 9:43 pm #130274It appears what I typed the first time didn’t go thru…
When prepping stock I usually rip to rough width on a bandsaw and then plane to width. I don’t owns table saw and am frankly scared to death of them. To get exactness my method has been to plane to a pencil gauge line. Then put the two pieces together as if I were bookmatch planing to edge joint. I then go thru iterations of planing until there is no discrepancy, then rotating the pieces and planing again to no discrepancy, then edge jointing till there is no light gap between them. This ensures the ends are all the same thickness and there is no bow in the middle. This seems to be very time consuming and I’m wondering what tricks there are to get accuracy more quickly?
11 September 2015 at 1:56 am #130289Troy, I’m not sure I understand correctly. Are you planing the edge of a board (or two boards) to get a good joint for gluing together? If so, I guess I do something similar, but not as rigorous. I edge plane the two boards together, then bring the “book” back together and see if there is any light. Back in the vise they go until I’m satisfied.
I don’t bother to turn one board around.
Hope this helps.
11 September 2015 at 2:19 am #130297It would be like planing the two sides of a box (on the edge)… So im trying to get the left side piece identical to the right side piece. They won’t be glued together but i plane them as if they would to check for straightness.
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