SguitarM527 Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 can someone explane to me what a plane/planer is, and what it does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezerboy Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 electric or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SguitarM527 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 electric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezerboy Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 it takes off a small amount of material...like evil sandpaper usefull for cleaning edges of boards etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drak Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 A planer is a machine that has a cylindrical rotating cutting blade that is fixed in place and spins on bearings which is attached to the motor pulley usually by a belt. The second part is the flat table and feed belt that is height-adjustable. You lay your wood on the feed table, adjust the table up or down to present the piece of wood to the cutting wheel, depending on how much wood surface you want to plane off the top. It's basic function is to put a flat surface on a piece of wood and/or take off wood in incremental amounts. Think of those old-world printing presses like you see in old movies where you can see the printing wheel spinning like mad and the paper copies come flying out...dig? Or like a wood chipper/mulcher machine (well, sort of) Kinda like dat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SguitarM527 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 gotcha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 just like to add that it helps you acheive a uniform thickness on the peice of wood once both sides are flat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SguitarM527 Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 aha... so is it necisary to plane a piece of wood before using it as your body? it must be right, because it needs to be level and flat in order to acheive its purpose...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 yes surface planing is a must...but you can buy alot of wood already planed so that all you have to do is sand it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krazyderek Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 well you can usualy get wood planed for free or a couple bucks when you buy it. That's kinda what you're paying for when you see 2 peice body blanks being sold for a bit more then what the wood actually costs. It's not absolutely nessecary, you can do the same thing with hand planer, some sandpaper and a ruler but it'll take you QUITE some time. dang... beat me to is wes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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