I made some 1/4 inch by 3/4 inch by 6' long strips to cap the face of a plywood shelf I'm building. I needed to run them through the planer (Delta
12.5") to shave a little bit off to make them pretty. The problem is some of them went throught the planer fine and came out beautifully figured, others chipped and jambed and broke. I realized I must be feeding them in the wrong way. But I could not tell how to determine the grain prior to feeding them through. Is their a sure fire way to test which way I should be pointing the wood.- posted
18 years ago