How to Use a Planer to Make Boards Smooth and Flat
2024 ж. 22 Мам.
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How to use a thickness planer to flatten boards and plane boards to the perfect thickness. Learn how to use your planer safely. Woodworker's Journal contributing editor Sandor Nagyszalanczy demonstrates how to use a home stationary planer to ensure that your lumber is flat and even every time.
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I have come back to this video so many times just to review it, it's such a simple good technique.
This is honestly one of the most helpful videos I've seen yet in my woodworking searches. Great job!!!
Wow. First time I've seen flattening a board without a sled. Very helpful. This presenter is great. He also has a really good video on dust collection. Very helpful and concise.
I can't tell you how happy this video made me..... I've had a cupping issue with my boards but didn't want to go through the effort of making a sled or jig. This is so simple but effective, thank you so much for this!
Stopped the vid halfway through to try it. Golden. ty ty
Why am I seeing this 7 years later? Very helpful indeed.
The idea of shims is brilliant.. Thanks.
I love the way you speak 🗣👍👍👍
What an awesome tip! I'm glad I stumbled upon this video
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
I'll be blowed, I have never thought of - or even heard of - doing it this way. So simple! Thanks a bunch
What a wonderful video. Thanks for sharing your techniques, I apreciate it !!
Excellent video and presentation! Thanks for the advice.
Great tips! I didn't know my planer could do all that.
Thanks. Just what I was looking for. I learned a lot.
Thank you for the instruction! Very easy to follow.
So much simpler than making a planing sled (now I only need one long sled and can do the short stuff using this method)!!! Thank you so much.
After watching 3 other videos this ONE showed me simply and succinctly(!) JUST how to plane the twist out of a board in 8 minutes. Just the ticket! thanks.
The irony is I had this issue today. This was the first video to show up in my feed. I guess they know I bought a planer.
Using a hand plane and power hand plane will allow you to plane out twist, bumps and cupping. Doing it completely by hand at the start will allow you to understand the process better.
thanks sir for the very useful information! I have some left over red oak, pretty, and good wood, but some are cupped, etc. I just got a planer, no jointer, so this will help a lot. thanks again.
Great tip! This was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!
An excellent and very usefull training video .Thank you
Very helpful video. Thank you.
Excellent video! Thanks
simple and brilliant many thanks
Very informative. Thanks!
Thank you for this. Excellent information and illustration
Fantastic demo and explanation. I'm subscribed!
very useful tips
Thank you for this video, I think it will be so helpful.
Excellent video.Thanks
Very good video! Thanks
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Great tips
I've got several twisted and cupped boards. I am going to try this out tomorrow! Thanks!
Great story, good luck!
Amazing value !
fantastic tips with the shims, will use that method, thanks!
Just bought my first planer this week and I ran a few not exactly flat or straight boards through it out of sheer excitement and was a little disappointed when I got the cupping out but the twist was still there. I thought for sure there was a way to fix the issue and was pretty sure it wasn't the machine... Your tutorial was just what the doc ordered... Dead flat!
Same here I was under the impression that if I ran my 2x4s through the jointer and thickness planer. I wouldn’t have to sand or hand plane them that simply not true with the tools I bought anyway. Home gamer stuff Ridgid thickness planer and Ridgid 6 1/8 jointer.
Thank you. I have been wondering how to do this. A very simple solution. I hope it works.
This is a super smart trick. Going to use a planer for the first time today on some rough sawn walnut boards, both of which have some noticeable unevenness.
Very cool, thank you.
Good video. Clear and informative.
Awesome trick, many thanks
Wow ... Nice. Such a good trick.
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for
Thanks very much for your video. I was able to level out a 12 x 12 Cutting Board using your technique.
Like the shim tip will try that...thanks
Thanks for this!
Very helpful!.
Great idea....
Excellent tutorial.
One day I will use those tips. Great video!
Awesome video best one yet to help me with warped wood
Great and education video.
Excellent video
awsome stuff ty for that video
tanks a millionaire ! never even thought about that "shim strip idea" ! eureka
nice tips
Love this "hack"!
very good video
Good tip
10 years but not too late, thanks....
that was awesome... great video.
Very nice plannér work
excellent tips for imperfect boards. very useful video. can't help but wonder how many times you've had boards too long and hit you shop door.
all these years i’ve wondered what to call it when i was asking for a certain board. it’s PERFECT ‘ that’s the name of the board i’ve wanted PERFECT! geez… TY FOR FINALLY HELPING ME UNDERSTAND…, this is not sarcastic either .. ha.. it’s really simply just perfect cut that i’m wanting 😂…. good for me .. i dunno @ the cutter guy but i’m on his side .
Thanks for that. On my way to try that shim thing out...? Cheers Herbie Herbert South Wales UK
Thanks
@woodworkersjournal - Regarding eliminating the twist, you mentioned that the shim method works best when the board is only a bit longer than the length of infeed and outfeed tables on the planer. What do you suggest for longer boards?
Love the video. Why it is advisable to push the board down on the jointer bed? Will this not take the crown out of board the same as the rollers on the thickness planer?
Shim idea was cool. TFS, G :)
Great video thank you! I tried this method out and had some decent results but the tape/shim kept getting yanked off and wound up in my planer! Any suggestions?
When measuring the thickness of the board after the shims are added, are you including the thickness of the shim as well ? Or just the board itself ? Thanks.
How to buy this machine/order... I wanna order this machine for boards smooth and flat
Good machine s. May I know the cost of a thicknesser which can a maximum width of 24"
So to ask a really dumb question, if working with say 2x6 boards with cupping, would the planer or the jointer be more useful if I can only choose one?
Great video. May I ask a question which I cannot find a video on? My boards don't come out with a really smooth surfaces. The wood seems to be lifted or torn a bit. I had the blades sharpened and they are installed correctly. Could it be that the blades really just need resharpening or is there some way I can sort this out? Thanks in advance. I have a Dewalt DW733.
I'm not an expert but are you experiencing grain tear up? You could check this by running the board the opposite way and check if you're getting that same result. I learned that from having that same problem. I hope this helps!
Wow, who needs a jointer, lol. Here I was, thinking I needed to pluck down serious $$$ to get a decent parallelogram jointer that would do the job with no fuss. I’ll try this on my ridgid planer. Edit: I just tried this on a glued board of hard maple that developed a cup after drying. Wow, my jointer flattened my board perfectly!
That is looks like some nice equipment. Who makes the planer and joiner?
Lance Goodthrust it’s on the front of the planner in big letters
Does the thickness of the tape need to be factored into the measurement or does the amount of compression in the paper and tape together roughly equal the thickness of the non compressed paper alone?
I wondered this as well. I think maybe this is why when he shimmed it, it was slightly loose to compensate the tape.
Excellent video but what happens if you have need of more than one board like the long one and each one has been planed as you showed. You could have three boards that are three different thicknesses. So, do you just plain them all down to the same thickness and hope they are still thick enough to use?
Yep, plane all flat and then match to the thickness of your thinnest board.
Jeff Stanley cm
You need to know exactly what thickness you need the boards to start with.
A good thing to remember is always do your thickness planing in batches. Hell, to be more efficient most things you do should be done in batches. Same same, equal equal.
Hi just starting out as a woodworker. Live in the uk and wondering if the blue tape you use is a plastic type of electrical tape. Many thanks
No mate, that's what they call "Blue Painters Tape" in North America. You can get the one inch wide stuff here from Toolstation (order number 30227). A word to the wise though, I haven't used the tape so not sure how strong the adhesive is on the back. Good luck anyways.
Many thanks
You are more than welcome.
Ian's right, Sandor's using painter's tape here. As with many things, your mileage may vary as far as adhesion goes. I've found it very useful and versatile with many projects and then failing to stick when I really need it for a paint job. For the most part, though, it does the job.
For this job any good white masking tape should work as well. The basic white(ish) tape is cheaper too.
I think you mean "always use push blocks during JOINTING" not joining :) great advice ! I have been telling people for 30 years just a planer is seldom enough , put fat potato chip in get thiner potato chip out.
How do you get multiple boards the same exact thickness?
If you have a stack of boards, set up the planer to take just a little off the thickest board then run all boards through the planer. Then lower the cutter head and run all the boards through. Then again until all are flat. Turn your boards over and repeat. Regardless of how many boards you have for your project you need to run them through the thickness planer together, one immediately after the other, as a single batch. If you have a bunch of boards with twists, cups etc you can probably flatten one board at a time. Then after all have one side flat, flip them over and begin to thickness plane the entire batch together.
Wouldn't a bench jointer do this?
Simple, but what about longer boards?
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GR8 tips - now if I can just remember all the GR8 tips I’ve learned, I’ll be in GR8 shape. I’m guessing I’ll have to screw up and then say, wait... I saw a tip on how to fix that. Voila!
What a real american accent from a magyar :)
What about 10 or 12 foot boards
i want to buy thikness but here in phillipines it much epensive to buy it it cosh 120thousands pesos
Sonder nonchalance key
Hello I am a maker of musical instruments such as I want to buy this machine Huosin sabsaby Thanks
+Huosain Sabsaby hey buddy, you can purchase a thickness planer from all sorts of places, wood craft, rockler, grizzly, for the large planers or if you are on a tight budget home depot or lows sell DeWalt lunch box planers that work great. I am an instrument builder myself and use the DeWalt 13" planer and it does everything I need.
Yep, I also have a Dewalt lunch box planer and it performs very well, almost zero snipe.
Rushia best girl
Yeet
why not just take 5min and knock the wind out of the board with a hand plane? Much simpler and takes a fraction of the time.
Flattening boards with the planer alone (and without use of the jointer) begins at the 3:10 mark. This is what the video should have started with, instead of use of the jointer. The video title is otherwise misleading in itself. Please change it so people don't come here expecting to be shown the planer only method at the start.
Relax. Most people can spare 3 minutes.A compliment for the other good tips would be nice.
Honesty would be nice too. As would not wasting someone's time. WTF Will?
@@williambranham6249indeed, there is simply no pleasing some people.
too complicated impractical and disappointing.. wasting time..
Video title starts with "How to use a Planer" and then the first thing he does is whip out a jointer. If I had a jointer, I wouldn't be looking this up. Smh.
or... just don't do woodworking that needs this level of accuracy.
I see JET and Black and Decker tools. Definitely not taking this guy's advice
What????? The quality of his advice has nothing to do with the brand of machine. You can use the same technique on the cheapest or the most expensive machinery.