how do I get the width I want without a planar?

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Ah10201) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m02.aol.com:

Yep, that is how it is done. Now if you have a band saw you could cut the

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Ah10201) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m02.aol.com:

Yep, that is how it is done. Now if you have a band saw you could cut the

How wide and long is the board? If not too wide you could resaw it on your tablesaw. If you want a workout you could resaw it by hand like they did in the old days. Or if you want a different workout you could plane it down. You could take it to a shop and have them plane it down. You could take it to a shop and have them resaw it on a bandsaw. You could go back where you bought the 1" thick board and buy a 1/2" thick board. You could redesign your plan so it needs a 1" thick board.

Try the neighbors or local schools who might still have an IA program for the proper tools, which would be a planer.

Responding only to the subject line: The same way you do it with a planer -- you leave the planer turned off and rip your stock to width on the table saw. ;-)

But what if the stock is too narrow? Can you squeeze it to make it wider?

No. Then you use the planer to get the appropriate width/thickness, and build a scale model.

How about using a hand plane? I have a shop full of tools and I still use a hand plane to thickness some boards.

Bob McBreen