Planer sled

It looks pretty long. Do you ever have trouble with the jig bending under its own weight and affecting the quality of the planing? I like it but would appreciate your comments.

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That’s a great idea!

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It’s not as long as it looks. I made it 50” long. I use infeed and outfeed supports.

-- Senior Chief

One of the interesting things about woodworking is the many ways in which to work wood and accomplish tasks. I prefer to clamp a rough sawn board on my worktable. With a #5 hand plane and winding sticks in just a few minutes, I can eliminate twist and high spots, and then send the board through the planer with great results.

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Very interesting. I’ll have to remember this one. I recently had an instance where this would have come in real handy.

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Gary K made one of those that was very cool, you might look it up.

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Joe, your system there works like a champ. I glued up some boards to make a couple of small panels which ended up having a slight bow to them and figured lets try making a sled and see what happens. they came out flat as can be. Its a keeper in my shop.

Thanks for the post!

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Thanks brother, I can’t take the credit, I copied it from someone else. It does work well though. I really don’t use my jointer much anymore.

-- Senior Chief