Phenolic Table Saw Inserts Question

Even if you could cut them, they might be too short to run through the planer.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Phenolic is a combination of cloth fiber and an epoxy type of resin. I would NEVER run them through a planer.

Instant dull blades.

I don’t know of any way to thin them down without dulling something.

I would take them back and make my own.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Running those high density plastics through your planer or jointer could be disasterous! Not only because of what they are made of, but also their size. They are just too small and will be sniped by the planner and will expose your hands to the blade of the jointer. It is never worth your health or fingers to experiment with stuff like this.

Return the inserts and make your own with wood, ie plywood of MDF.

-- Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsman can hide his mistakes.

Thanks everybody that’s just what I figured. I wonder what happens if you used a router to do the edges the instructions say that works? Anyway they will go back next week. ;-)

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That is actually a pretty good idea. Rout a rabbet with a bottom mounted bering bit in a router table. That will create a recess, to set the thing flush. Some of that stuff machines well.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

A thickness sander would do the trick. the belt maybe a little thrashed when you’re finished. my 2 cents.