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Forum topic by dgrant | posted 10-06-2015 08:18 PM | 853 views | 0 times favorited | 4 replies | ![]() |
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10-06-2015 08:18 PM |
I made one of those chance discoveries that helped me in an unexpected way today. I make cutting boards for gifts and I use my planer to flatten the first glued up panel. For quite a while I have used a tip I saw on the wood whisperer where he uses hot glue to secure a panel to a flat board. The tip has always worked well for me with good results except for the expected snipe. I’m too cheap to buy long enough boards to just cut away the snipe so I have just lived with it. I’m pretty good at reducing it by applying the correct pressure on the infeed and outfeed. Today, I only had a really long piece of mdf shelving material to use as a sled. It’s five feet long. I didn’t want to cut it because I want to use it later so I glued the panel to the middle of it. It’s much more unwieldy to run it through the planer but I found that it nearly eliminates the snipe. I’m sure it’s due to the amount of weight hanging off both ends of the panel helping it not lift so much. If you can handle using the longer boards as a sled, this trick works pretty well. I will keep using it. |