At times I need to plane some stock down to less than 1/4 inch. Typically I double stick the stock to a carrier board (3/4 ply for example). This works ok but now wondering why not just build a 'fixed carrier board' mounted through the planer itself. If this bed, perhaps made of MDF with melamine finish, was fixed to the table I could plane to thin dimensions. All I lose is 3/4" of height on planer but never put giant, thick stock through there anyway. If I get a Wixey I assume I could then zero it to this new planer base.
Has anyone done this?
Talk me out of it?
Scott Welty