Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
planer or jointer nicks
Arw01
>I use my planes to do most of my wood surfacing even after they ahve been through the planer or jointer, as both generally have a nick or two out of them.
However, I find it takes a great long time to actually get a shaving which takes that ridge off the surface. I think it is a technique issue.
My expectation is that a ridge should come off almost instantly, but maybe I need to come across them at more of a diagonal than riding on them?
Thanks
Alan
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Warren in Lancaster, PA
>It is hard to believe how much flatter a hand planed surface is than a machine planed surface. I would figure on two or three complete passes over the whole board with the plane to clean the surface. In your mind you see a flat surface with a couple of tiny ridges, but those ridges can be dwarfed by irregularities from even an expensive planer.
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ThomD
>Planer knicks are usually a twofer. There is wood that got through the arch of the knick, but usually the knick is dull also, so there is more wood that got steamrollered down. So you have a compressed ridge that may raise up to quite a height. Compare a known with the height of your ridge, if it is the thickness of a business or credit card, that is quite a few thou.
I once knicked a brand new set of planer blades on drywall screws I had used in the glue-up that weren't set as deep as I had thought. That creates quite a clean-up problem. Usually the ones I get are easily removed with a cabinet scraper, which has unlimited geometry, unlike a plane.
If you enjoy setting planer blades, you can see if they can be offset laterally enough to get rid of the knicks.
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Doug Trembath
>Being far from an expert, I wonder if the plane may be set for too fine a shaving, and the sole is riding on the higher line left by the nick? In my limited experience, I sometimes can't get a shaving started with a longer plane until I begin at the very edge of the board, then it progresses all along the wood. Hopefully those with more experience will chime in and clear it up for us all.
Doug Trembath
Studio in the Woods