Can sanding substitute for planing?

I have 2 30"x24" panels (made of three pieces each) that I need to surface. They are 13/16" and will probably end up a bit under 3/4"

The lumber yard will do it for $20, but they want to sand rather than plane. They claim on small reductions that sanding works out better than planing.

Does this make any sense?

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Toller
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since if you were doing it in your home shop, standard procedure is to run it through a planer, THEN sand it, so the net result is the same. Let them do it as they suggested.

dave

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Bay Area Dave

Yes

Alan Bierbaum

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Alan Bierbaum

Yes... Depending on the grain of the wood, thickness sanding will prevent tearout .

Bob S.

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Bob S.

It would be very unusual to plane anything that wide, it would go through a thicknesser and guaranteing zero snipe on a finished board through that would be verrrry difficult.

When I was making cabinet doors, not radically different dimensions, I used my Stanley 80 scraper for most of the surfacing.

Bernard R

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Bernard Randall

With a heavy machine, a light cut may not remove enough wood to eliminate the marking from the infeed roll.

John Martin

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JMartin957

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