Sun, Sep 3, 2006, 7:37pm (EDT-3) snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (eganders) doth sayeth something: Not really a non-problem. Also, when you first start planing the wood, it is hard to know how much you are going to take off on the first pass. If you are planing a number of pieces of wood and each one starts at a different thickness you will have to have the planer ajusted at a different starting level for each one.
Yep, a non-problem far as I'm still concerned. Dunno what the rest here do, but this is how I do it. My planer's got a scale, but I don't use it. Dunno if it's accurate, wouldn't use it anyway. I just crank.down, till ijust barely touching the wood, then start shoving it thru, cranking down a bit each pass, then measure the wood when it starts looking close to what I want, measure each pass until it's what I want. Quick, simple, accurate. If I'm planing more than one piece, doesn't matter if they're different thicknesses or not, if they're close to the same. Damned if I'd be adjusting some gimmick for each piece just because of that. I just start with the thickest, then run the others after it, crank down a bit, repeat, until I get all of them being planed. See above on measuring. No prob. And, just for general information, I'd be measuring the wood thickness, even if I knew for a fact the scale was 100% accurate. Always the chance it might get knocked off plumb. No prob.
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