Unfortunately warped boards are a challenge woodworkers encounter all too often.
Woodworking planer sled. With the sled or rails holding the wood in a fixed orientation the planer instead acts like a wide jointer cutting a flat face. By keith rust oct 25 2005. The plans called for 1 2 plywood for the top and bottom of the sled and then plastic laminate on the very bottom of the ply to make it have less friction for the planer. The sled is sized to fit a 12 planer and will cradle a board up to 48 long.
A sled lets you use just your planer to mill wide boards to any thickness. To flatten those boards with my big planer i use a planer sled with a long clamp on saw guide embedded into it to hold the board. But if a board isn t warped too badly it can be salvaged with a planer and this sled. 555 a simple planer sled matt vanderlist.
This does allow the thickness to vary but after one face is flat you can flip the wood over use that flat face as a stable reference and plane the other face both flat and parallel. This sled supports the board so it doesn t flex under the pressure of the feed rollers. My jointer is only 6 in. Could ve been an even bigger struggle if it weren t for my thickness planer sled.
Build a planer sled that was showcased in fine woodworking. This video is a quick and hopefully useful demonstration of a homemade solution for not having a joiner. Working with wide lumber is a joy. It has five levelers.
I slip wedges under the edges to even out the high spots which maximizes my yield. Wide and i often have to joint wider boards than that. This jig allows you to joint and plane bigger boards that won t fit in your planer or jointer with help of a router. The board ends up with a flat face.
We can rip the board into. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. I had seen the video and was impressed with it s simplicity. Thickness planers are one of the big time saver power tools in the workshop but they are very limited in what they can do but there are some things you can do to make them even more useful like.
Check out all of the other social media platforms my work can be found. Up a planer sled one of my favorite woodworking jigs. Video player is loading. I decided to build it to flatten the boards.