Planer / Thickness machine

Newton

Newton

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I'm considering one of these machines for my general woodwork - not primarily for Q work. But I guess it would be nice to make nice reference planes for bandsaw work while ripping boards.

Question is : does any one of you use these and can you for instance use the thickness mode to make your inlay slabs (5mm thick) or would this cause havoc in the machine? Can't find any information online on how small/thin slabs the machines could take, just the opposite.

As mentioned - main focus for this machine is not Q work so apologies for being O.T. If any one have a machine to recommend - feel free to chip in as well. At the moment I'm looking @ at Jet.

N
 
Newton said:
I'm considering one of these machines for my general woodwork - not primarily for Q work. But I guess it would be nice to make nice reference planes for bandsaw work while ripping boards.

Question is : does any one of you use these and can you for instance use the thickness mode to make your inlay slabs (5mm thick) or would this cause havoc in the machine? Can't find any information online on how small/thin slabs the machines could take, just the opposite.

As mentioned - main focus for this machine is not Q work so apologies for being O.T. If any one have a machine to recommend - feel free to chip in as well. At the moment I'm looking @ at Jet.

N
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Lol, good luck making slabs on a machine like that. It will be wildly inaccurate and rough at the tiny sizes.

There is an easier way to do it, a planer is not the solution.

Buy a table saw that can take 2 blades. Set them 5.1mm apart, and 5.1mm from the fence. Cut material. You'll get 2 slab thick pieces per attempt.

I will post a photo of my setup. I've started making my own maple veneer using this method.
 
Newton said:
I'm considering one of these machines for my general woodwork - not primarily for Q work. But I guess it would be nice to make nice reference planes for bandsaw work while ripping boards.

Question is : does any one of you use these and can you for instance use the thickness mode to make your inlay slabs (5mm thick) or would this cause havoc in the machine? Can't find any information online on how small/thin slabs the machines could take, just the opposite.

As mentioned - main focus for this machine is not Q work so apologies for being O.T. If any one have a machine to recommend - feel free to chip in as well. At the moment I'm looking @ at Jet.

N
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i have a performax drum sander, its the same as the jet
can run material/veneers thru it to as thin as .015"
 
Newton said:
I'm considering one of these machines for my general woodwork - not primarily for Q work. But I guess it would be nice to make nice reference planes for bandsaw work while ripping boards.

Question is : does any one of you use these and can you for instance use the thickness mode to make your inlay slabs (5mm thick) or would this cause havoc in the machine? Can't find any information online on how small/thin slabs the machines could take, just the opposite.

As mentioned - main focus for this machine is not Q work so apologies for being O.T. If any one have a machine to recommend - feel free to chip in as well. At the moment I'm looking @ at Jet.

N
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I have been using a moderately inexpensive Ryobe 13" planer for many things in the shop for about 9 years now. Just make sure the blades of whatever brand you get are sharp. An inlay slab at 5mm is not a problem but it is about the thinnest these machines, or most planers, will go. The cut is every bit as smooth as it needs to be. If you need to go thinner you can make a shoe with a slight lip at the back end, you can make pieces much thinner. Main problem either way is highly figured woods that might have tear-out while machining, some superglue on the surface being cut along with light passes helps control that.
 
Thanks guys for your replies.

For one strange reason the local Jet supplier has actually replied now on a Saturday. Feedback is that the thicknesser functionality could work on wood down to 3mm. However down to 3mm it might be problematic and he also mention the drum sander option which could work with precision down to 1mm thickness...

I'll see what I'll do, thanks again.

N

Edit: For those interested Jet has a new machine with the helical mill head http://www.jettools.com/us/en/p/jjp-12hh-12-planer-jointer-with-helical-head/708476
 
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Newton said:
Thanks guys for your replies.

For one strange reason the local Jet supplier has actually replied now on a Saturday. Feedback is that the thicknesser functionality could work on wood down to 3mm. However down to 3mm it might be problematic and he also mention the drum sander option which could work with precision down to 1mm thickness...

I'll see what I'll do, thanks again.

N

Edit: For those interested Jet has a new machine with the helical mill head http://www.jettools.com/us/en/p/jjp-12hh-12-planer-jointer-with-helical-head/708476
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I've got all four, a Delta thickness planer, a Performax table saw, a Horrible Fright joiner and a 16/32 Performax drum sander. I haven't used the thickness planer in quite a while, the only time I use a joiner is to square one corner of a board so as to square the other three sides on the table saw. I use the drum sander quite a bit smoothing and dimensioning many items from as thin as veneer to 1" square points.

Dick
 
rhncue said:
I've got all four, a Delta thickness planer, a Performax table saw, a Horrible Fright joiner and a 16/32 Performax drum sander. I haven't used the thickness planer in quite a while, the only time I use a joiner is to square one corner of a board so as to square the other three sides on the table saw. I use the drum sander quite a bit smoothing and dimensioning many items from as thin as veneer to 1" square points.

Dick
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Thank you for your feedback Dick. Interesting to read about your experiences using the machines. As for my work, I just made a custom HiFi rack and it did go so well that I have some more interested in custom work. Most of it was cut on my CNC machine using a 3m x 0.6m x 40mm Oak table top (3 of them). I kind of understood I must have had a brainfart moment when I tried to get them in to my shop - forklift is cool when you are buying in the shop, but moving these was a pain in the A.

General idea is to be able to buy smaller boards and use a planer / thicknesser to stack´n glue boards, but if I could use the same machine for squaring corners for bandsaw work and inlay slabs - it would be a bonus :rolleyes:
 

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