Planer and drift wood

Will I damage my planer by putting some really dry drift wood from salt water through it. The wood is really hard and dry?

Reply to
Dan Jefferson
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through it.

Careful! There a good chance there's embedded sand (or worse) in the wood.

Reply to
joeljcarver

You'll nick your blades to smithereens. Tom

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tom

Belt sand it first, but still be ready to sharpen/replace the planer blades.

Dave

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Reply to
TeamCasa

You won't do them any good.

I'm curious, with all the neat things you can do with drift wood, why would you want to put it thru a planer?

Lew

Reply to
Lew Hodgett

If it's anything like the driftwood on the Upper Left Coast, it will have sand, shells, bits of shell, mebbe rocks, and perhaps a critter or three. Depending on the original source, it could also have nails, spikes, bob wire and bullets. How much do you like your planer?

Reply to
Lobby Dosser

Assuming no metal in the wood, this is a good project for blades that need to be sharpened anyways. Dave

Reply to
Dave W

Wanted to flatten it to make a small stool or table.

Reply to
Dan Jefferson

OK, fine, but why _driftwood_ for heaven's sake? Can't you find something that's a bit closer to flat already?

Reply to
Doug Miller

In that case, why not sand it?

You would be amazed what some 24 grit discs on a right angle sander can achieve.

(BTW, it's a basic boat building tool.)

Use a straight edge as a batten, to find the high spots as you go.

When you get close, switch to a fairing board.

Since this is a relatively small piece, you won't need a big fairing board.

Mount some 24 grit flooring paper on a wooden concrete float with some rubber cement and you are off and running with a one hand fairing board about 3"-4" wide, 18" long.

Lew

Reply to
Lew Hodgett

Great idea and much thanks. Have plenty of sand paper and lots of the required resources.

Dan J

Reply to
Dan Jefferson

You're welcome.

BTW, don't waste your time with anything finer than 36 grit.

If you try, your arms will fall of before you finish.

Been there, done that, screw the tee shirt, bring the cold beer.

Lew

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Lew Hodgett

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