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- From: gph@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (G. Paul Houtz)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:10:05 GMT
- Subject: Re: Planing glued-up boards
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- Bill Alexander <ALEX@NKI.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >I remember an author in FWW a while back (don't remember the issue) describing
- >his method for flattening glued-up panels: he builds them in 12"-wide sections
- >and runs them through his planer before gluing up the sections to each other.
- >Won't this trash the knives? (Or is it worth it to have a nice, flat tabletop.)
- >----------
-
- I have put some glued-up panels through my planer. It didn't hurt the
- steel knives, as far as I can tell. I went on to plane a lot of other
- lumber.
-
- Why would glue hurt the knives?
-
- I have found that paint dulls them, apparently because the pigment
- is gritty. Also, I have planed down used deckwood, and the knives
- get dull a little more quickly because of the tiny amount of embedded
- grit in the old wood.
-