Martin West
12-12-2018, 7:11 AM
Hi All, I am building an end grain butcher block top for a portable cart using 2x2 hard maple. The top will be about 20”x36”x4”. My plan is to glue 10 2” x 12” strips together (20”x12”), dry, then cut those into 3 to give me the 4” thickness I want, then glue up all those strips (20”x4”) to the 36”dimension.
Question: My thought is to lightly plane the 20x12 strips in a Dewalt 735 planer to get a consistent flat surface for glue up of the 2x4x20 inch strips. They would need to go in the 13” planer with grain at 90 degrees to “normal” side/face grain orientation as when running boards through normally. Is there a problem with this approach (really bad tear out, etc). Am I over thinking it and just skip the planer? Should I go all Chris Schwarz and hand plane it (shudder)?
Thanx in advance
Martin
Question: My thought is to lightly plane the 20x12 strips in a Dewalt 735 planer to get a consistent flat surface for glue up of the 2x4x20 inch strips. They would need to go in the 13” planer with grain at 90 degrees to “normal” side/face grain orientation as when running boards through normally. Is there a problem with this approach (really bad tear out, etc). Am I over thinking it and just skip the planer? Should I go all Chris Schwarz and hand plane it (shudder)?
Thanx in advance
Martin