Looking for a jig

[MarcW]

Hello all,

I'm more of the handtool board, but last week I got in machinery again, so I open a thread here.

I wondered if there is a jig, shopmade or not, for thicknessers. It should allow planing or jointing roughsawn boards. If anybody knows, I'd be glad she or he could point me to it.

Friendly Regards,

Marc

 

[Scrit]

Hi Marc

You can certainly plane a rough sawn board in a thicknesser by mounting it on a long board, shimming where there are gaps beneath the board and passing it through the thicknesser. Just make sure uou've got a stop - screws/nails/blocks, etc - at the rear of the board to prevent if from being ejected into your legs or worse. I can't see how you'd joint in a thicknesser, though. Jointing requires a fence at right engles to the cutterblock, something you can't achieve in a thicknesser. I'd therefore suggest ripping square on a table saw (or with a circular saw and straight batten) followed by careful hand planing. Oh, and one more thing - keep the cut very shallow; no more than 1mm when surface planing.

Scrit

 

[Philly]

Mark
There was an article in Fine Woodworking on building a sled to allow you to joint wide stock in your thicknesser. Here is a link-if you need more info I can dig out the back issue for you.
Cheers
Philly

 

[MarcW]

Scrit, Philly,

Thanks for the information. I had a jig in mind, two rabbeted boards, squeezing the board to be planed with filleted rods. Hm, well, I think it's to dangerous. Now I will see.

I looked at the side of fine woodworking. Great information there for 30 bucks, 8) nice sled too.

Cheers and thank you,

Marc

 

[Lee Brubaker]

I have seen a sled using a panel clamp to "hold" the board & shims then inserted to maintain the level . Pretty simple device limited only by the length of the panel clamp attached by a screw to the sled base. I have not seen panel clamps longer than 5ft.

Lee

 

[MarcW]

Hello Lee,

I googled "panel clamp", and got thousands of results. Could you tell me please which ones you mean. Your sled seems to be really easy to make.

Thanks in advance, Marc