Glenn Lewis
03-11-2009, 4:45 PM
i had a new exterior side door installed today, and in removing the old casing/jamb assembly, i wound up with a pile of antique pine (70+) years old that matches all the woodwork and flooring in my old house.
i can tell by the unpainted parts that it's good wood with great grain and i want to salvage it. i have a metal detector to make sure all the nails/screws are out, and i'm ready to remove some thick, old paint (maybe some lead in there somewhere).
i assume just running it through the planer would be hell on the blades so i'm not doing that, but am hoping to avoid chemical stripping. i was thinking about getting a cheap HF planer and just sacrificing it (or a few sets of it's blades, anyway) to the job, but any other ideas?
i can tell by the unpainted parts that it's good wood with great grain and i want to salvage it. i have a metal detector to make sure all the nails/screws are out, and i'm ready to remove some thick, old paint (maybe some lead in there somewhere).
i assume just running it through the planer would be hell on the blades so i'm not doing that, but am hoping to avoid chemical stripping. i was thinking about getting a cheap HF planer and just sacrificing it (or a few sets of it's blades, anyway) to the job, but any other ideas?