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- From: hosken@spss.com (Bill Hosken)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: Planing glued-up boards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.154059.2434@spss.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:40:59 GMT
- References: <WOODWORK%92111212363046@IPFWVM.BITNET> <4320060@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
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- Organization: SPSS, Inc.
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- In article <4320060@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>, gph@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (G. Paul Houtz) writes:
- > 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?
- >
-
- The glue line causes a hot spot in one part of the blade. How hot will vary
- alot, but it can burn a nick into the blade so that subsequent boards will
- show a slightly raised line. In routers this will affect highspeed steel but
- probably not carbide.
-