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30 June 2017 at 5:08 pm #313371
I’ll admit upfront that I just joined and predominately use power tools. I want to incorporate hand work for joinery and wood shaping to bring my skills to the next level. I’m not dogmatic about any approach and will continue to use power tools for dimensioning rough wood. For a small project I might consider dimensioning by hand tools, but not for a project that calls for 20 or more board feet of stock. To that end, I own a 6″ jointer, a Dewalt 735 planer, and a table saw.
Most of the rough boards I work with are in the 6″ to 12″ range and many of them exceed the width of my jointer. You only need to make one face relatively flat for the planer (thicknesser) to do its job. As dclare indicated, a planer sled will do the trick, but so will a jack plane. Once your first face is relatively flat with either method, that becomes your reference face, (place face down on the table) for the other side to be made parallel.
For panels that are glued up to wider widths you can construct a carrier for your router and use a straight bit to flatten the top. However, if you don’t plan to do this very often, at least here in the U.S., I would bring a wide panel to a cabinet shop and for $40.00 or so, they will run it through their drum sander. This levels any glue joints and flattens the panel.
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