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Make it twice as wide -- instead of 16x120 it's 32x60. Half as many clamps opened twice as wide. Repeat as necessary. Goes for every step. It only takes four s
by coryrc 2y ago
Make it twice as wide -- instead of 16x120 it's 32x60. Half as many clamps opened twice as wide. Repeat as necessary. Goes for every step.
It only takes four seconds for a board to go through mine. Takes much longer to crank the wheel down from the 5" I had it at before.
- ok_dad 2y agoYou both have a point. Commercially, make ten boards because efficiency equals money. For pleasure, do it one at a time because that’s more fun than an assembly line. I’m not a woodworker most of the time, but I am building a 35 foot privacy fence at my house from rough redwood that I have to prepare myself (flattening, ripping, etc), and I would rather die than prepare the wood for more than one section of the fence at a time. I like doing it the hard way where I just do a bit at a time because it’s more enjoyable. If this were a job, I would certainly plane everything then cut everything then oil everything then drill all the holes then cut down the boards then I would bring that onsite to assemble it in a few days. Instead it’s going to take three months.
- dfc 2y agoWow, you have a 32 inch planer? That's awesome. That has to be an industrial planer? The brands I am familiar with, Powermatic/Laguna/etc, do not even make one that big. If your 32 inch planer processes 5 feet in 4 seconds? That's 75 feet per minute! What kind of dust collection do you have?
- jimnotgym 2y agoHe didn't say he had a 32 inch planer. You can glue two separate 16 inch sets of boards side by side in one set of clamps. You don't have to glue them together!