Turning your rough boards into lovely smooth ones

[wisewood]

I've done the router sled to true up small off cuts for bread boards. Works well and could easily be up scaled for wide boards.

 

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[brisbane trees]

I find most of my slab customers are prepared to do the work of smoothing them out, and it's just not financially viable for me to muck around with them.

 

Actually, I now have an arrangement with a miller to take my logs, slab them up, and we split the proceeds. I then have plenty enough to sell on weekends, and it doesn't take up my time.

 

If I wasn't working full-time on trees I might be able to afford the time to work with the wood, but I'd count it as a hobby.

[htb]

Just bought a 10" sedgwick planer thicknesser. 

Does anyone have a manual for it or a copy of it that they could send me.

Does anyone know of a fence for it as it was missing.

 

Thanks

[trigger_andy]

54 minutes ago, htb said:

Just bought a 10" sedgwick planer thicknesser. 

Does anyone have a manual for it or a copy of it that they could send me.

Does anyone know of a fence for it as it was missing.

 

Thanks

I could so with a wee 10" Planer as well. Handy for Mantles etc. 

 

I have access to a nice Wadkin 20" for bigger stuff and the local shop has a 24" wide Planer I can get time on. 

[htb]

54 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I could so with a wee 10" Planer as well. Handy for Mantles etc. 

 

I have access to a nice Wadkin 20" for bigger stuff and the local shop has a 24" wide Planer I can get time on. 

Came off gumtree £450, only 40 miles away, better than the portable ones. Picked up last night, took to bits to check over (cos I'm like that), back together now planing with it

[gobbypunk]

Yeah my 2ft wide thickness planner is a real game changer it was a real ball ache getting it and a grand for the blue box with 2 switches on it to convert to 3phase but totally worth all the money and grief