Art Mulder
11-04-2006, 10:49 PM
Usually, having a 23ft long shop is no problem. The narrow width (it is only 11ft wide. Almost) is usally more the problem for me.
But today I needed to deal with a 10ft long board. And it had to stay 10ft long, as it was for some long ceiling trim. It started as one 10'4" long by 9-1/2" wide piece of 4/4 ash. I trimmed a bit from the ends, bringing it to just a hair under 10 feet.
10ft board. 23ft long shop. Can you do simple math? :eek:
Unfortunately, I did not think to snap a picture of the original rough board. I was too busy scratching my head and convincing myself that I could make it work. And I did.
It helps that most everything in my shop is on wheels. And I had a few rollers laying around that I could jury rig into some longgggg outfeed supports. (Have to get some better ones, just in case there is a next time.)
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But thanks to SWMBO, and those rollers, and my recently-acquired DeWalt 735 planer, we got-er-done. Planed that is. Then I got to spend 5+ minutes on striking the set -- er -- rearranging the shop, as I moved the planer back to the side, and wheeled the bandsaw into the center. Next was rough-cutting the pieces to thickness and resawing down to just a hair over half an inch. Then the bandsaw was moved out of the middle, and the planer came back for final touch up.
Finally, I could thank my wife for her set of helpful hands and bid her farewell. Her verdict? "This is boring." :rolleyes: Maybe if I had a better bandsaw I could get a slightly better feed rate...
Then I had to rearrange again and figure out how to move my jointer to the middle of the shop.
Oh yeah, all you guys who declare that you can only joint a board about as long as the tables on your jointer? Piffle. I've got a 6" Delta jointer, 47" tables I think, and I jointed those 10ft boards. Actually, I was surprised at how well it went. Okay, I admit it - this is just for ceiling trim. There is no gluing in the future of these boards, so the jointed edge did not have to be dead-on perfect. They just needed to be good enough to look straight and to feed safely through the saw.
THe saw was next.
49542
This was the home stretch. I'd used the Grip-Tite feather board when resawing, and it made the tablesaw ripping a breeze as well.
And there you have it.
4954149540
Told you it was a 10ft board.
But I'd rather not do that too often. You guys with your 30x24 shops? Enjoy the space. You guys with the small caves like I have? Take heart! With some castors, feather boards, and imagination, you can make it work.
Good Night,
...art
(Edit, corrected the model name it is a 735, not a 734 planer!)
But today I needed to deal with a 10ft long board. And it had to stay 10ft long, as it was for some long ceiling trim. It started as one 10'4" long by 9-1/2" wide piece of 4/4 ash. I trimmed a bit from the ends, bringing it to just a hair under 10 feet.
10ft board. 23ft long shop. Can you do simple math? :eek:
Unfortunately, I did not think to snap a picture of the original rough board. I was too busy scratching my head and convincing myself that I could make it work. And I did.
It helps that most everything in my shop is on wheels. And I had a few rollers laying around that I could jury rig into some longgggg outfeed supports. (Have to get some better ones, just in case there is a next time.)
49543
But thanks to SWMBO, and those rollers, and my recently-acquired DeWalt 735 planer, we got-er-done. Planed that is. Then I got to spend 5+ minutes on striking the set -- er -- rearranging the shop, as I moved the planer back to the side, and wheeled the bandsaw into the center. Next was rough-cutting the pieces to thickness and resawing down to just a hair over half an inch. Then the bandsaw was moved out of the middle, and the planer came back for final touch up.
Finally, I could thank my wife for her set of helpful hands and bid her farewell. Her verdict? "This is boring." :rolleyes: Maybe if I had a better bandsaw I could get a slightly better feed rate...
Then I had to rearrange again and figure out how to move my jointer to the middle of the shop.
Oh yeah, all you guys who declare that you can only joint a board about as long as the tables on your jointer? Piffle. I've got a 6" Delta jointer, 47" tables I think, and I jointed those 10ft boards. Actually, I was surprised at how well it went. Okay, I admit it - this is just for ceiling trim. There is no gluing in the future of these boards, so the jointed edge did not have to be dead-on perfect. They just needed to be good enough to look straight and to feed safely through the saw.
THe saw was next.
49542
This was the home stretch. I'd used the Grip-Tite feather board when resawing, and it made the tablesaw ripping a breeze as well.
And there you have it.
4954149540
Told you it was a 10ft board.
But I'd rather not do that too often. You guys with your 30x24 shops? Enjoy the space. You guys with the small caves like I have? Take heart! With some castors, feather boards, and imagination, you can make it work.
Good Night,
...art
(Edit, corrected the model name it is a 735, not a 734 planer!)