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Planer to square the sides?
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Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:24 pmby toconnor602
I just cut out my sides. I have a pretty good smooth edge but the 2 boards are not square (bottom panel is about 1/8" longer. I dont want to use the belt sander and then potentially over compensate.
Has anyone used a flat electric wood plane on the convex curves to square the top edge of the 2 sides? or am i just talking crazy?
Re: Planer to square the sides?
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Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:49 pmby aggie79
I would use a router and a template or pattern bit instead.
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Re: Planer to square the sides?
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Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:24 pmby tony.latham
aggie79 wrote:I would use a router and a template or pattern bit instead.
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Re: Planer to square the sides?
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Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:53 amby dmdc411
I built my sides a little bigger, less than 1/8". Then before I attached the inner ply, screwed the two of them together and used a belt sander. Taking a square and checking for squareness. Glue would fill in any minor voids!
Re: Planer to square the sides?
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Thu Sep 15, 2016 1:59 pmby dogpound101
I used this bit in my router
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Re: Planer to square the sides?
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Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:03 pmby toconnor602
Thanks for the feedback. Definitely feel like I'm trying to level this out
Re: Planer to square the sides?
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Thu Sep 15, 2016 6:59 pmby rowerwet
I also used a belt sander, the hand held power plane or router would also be good, depending on what you have for tools.
Re: Planer to square the sides?
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Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:43 pmby toconnor602
Thanks for the feedback and ideas everyone. ultimately I ended up using the planer. the results are posted in my build journal.