diplomatdon wrote:
A little tip on how to plane thin material. Buy a piece of white shelving about 4 ft long. Place in thickness planer then run thin material thru on top of shelving. Works great.
Thanks for the tip. I did something similar today, which worked well.
I took a thicker piece of wood and laid the thin piece of oak on top of it, and started running that through the planer.
The thicker piece went about 1/2 way through, and then stopped, but the thin piece, slid right on through, on top of the thicker piece. I was able to reduce the thickness of the piece of oak down to about 1/16 of an inch.
Below is a pic of the 2 pieces from last night. I only planed the one, and you can see how much thinner it is compared to the other one.
I do think the piece of melamine laying on the bed would work better, but I didn't have any, and I just wanted to try this out. I am satisfied that thinner stock can be planed with this planer. Wahoo!!
That means if I wanted to, I could make my own plywood! Small pieces only, though...
