> Snipe would be a concern as one of the things I will use this for is > planing out those little cutouts from Steinway long bridges. Similarly, > I will be running the topside through the planer as well. What is the > best way to avoid snipe when pushing something like that through? > > David Love The biggest problem is unsupported stock ends. With everything else in the planer set up and adjusted to specs (particularly bed rollers and pressure bar), lifting up on the back end of the stock as it goes in (at least until the outfeed roller has the front end), and lifting up on the front end (as the infeed roller loses the back end, until the stock clears the blades), minimizes snipe. Bed rollers should be barely above table height for hardwoods. Some adjust the bed rollers clear down to bed surface height. If the stock will feed with that much bed friction, that helps too. Ron N
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