I'm still fooling with walnut for a Telecaster-type guitar.
I'm getting usable results with my planing sled now, but somehow I'm ending up with about 3" of snipe at both ends of the wood. The odd thing is that the snipe is extremely shallow. On some of the boards, I can't even see it when I put them together (face to face) to see how they'll glue up.
I'm waiting on infeed and outfeed tables, plus a hand plane, and I'm about ready to spring for a jointer. Nonetheless, I would like to make this wood work for me.
Question: would it be practical to just get a palm sander and use it to reduce the humps? I would say the worst of it is the height of a playing card. The pieces will be something like 20" long and 7" wide after I cut them down. I would have to sand down several boards, flattening an area about 7" by 10" on each.