Thickness Planer

[Farrell]

Exactly. That is where I am going to start. Hopefull I can get a blade that will slice cleanly enough for me that my laminations can go from the bandsaw directly to glueup. I found this:  http://www.tools-for-woodworking.com/product.asp?0=294&1=295&3=1294  It is from Highland Hardware and is called their Wood Slicer bandsaw blade. It is a Super Sharp Thin-Kerf Precision Resawing Blade. It is specifically made for cutting veneers (not that I haven't heard that before!). I would like to turn 12 mm of nice maple into a 6 mm thick cap of 1 mm laminations. We shall see.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: Thickness Planer


> 
> Terry,
>          I think if I were going to do this with a bandsaw cut only I would 
> be looking into different blades for the saw. I would definitely look for 
> more teeth per inch and perhaps a skip tooth blade as well to attempt at a 
> smoother cut. While our saws cut pretty much anything we throw at them my 
> experience so far is not one of terribly smooth cuts. More of an industrial 
> machine I guess.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:05 PM 2/15/2003, you wrote:
> 
> >Thank you Greg. What a wonderful idea. I'm sure I could make that work 
> >somehow or other - at least worth a try. Some of my thinking on bridge cap 
> >laminations also runs toward: how smooth a cut do we need? What about just 
> >a nice smooth cut straight from the band saw? Something the equivilent of 
> >a 60 to 80 grit sanding job?
> >
> >I cut some sample 1 mm laminations with an inappropriate band saw blade 
> >(really coarse) and 9 laminations clamped together totalled 12 mm thick! I 
> >guess right around 25% air! Nope, gotta get a smoother surface than that!
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net>
> >To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 10:41 PM
> >Subject: Re: Thickness Planer
> >
> >
> > > I don't know how feasible this would be but you could attach the piece you
> > > want to plane piggy back style to a straight flat piece with double sided
> > > tape. Run them through together and then separate and you should have what
> > > you want.
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > At 09:30 PM 2/15/2003, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >Ron Nossaman stated that he thickness planes hard maple to 1.5 to 2 mm
> > > >thick laminations. I have a 12-1/2 inch DeWald thickness planer, but it
> > > >seems the thinnest it will plane down to is about 1/8 inch, or about 3 
> > mm.
> > > >What planer goes down to 1.5 mm. Or are modifications possible to
> > > >accomplish this?
> > > >
> > > >Terry Farrell
> > > >
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