a draw knife is a really handy old fashioned hand tool that is really inexpensive and could do this job very well. it looks like a letter u, with handles on the uprights and a blade along the trough. you pull the handles towards you. i think noah used it to make the ark.
remember to knock out the hinge pins from the bottom up. then the top down when re-hanging. the edge with the lock-set is sightly beveled, so try to keep to it when knifing, or planing, or sanding, which ever you choose. On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, robert moore wrote: > The door to my office will not shut. The house I live in is old and is > literally leaning to the West. If I hold a piece of string with a weight on > it from the top corner of the door, the weight is off to one side at least a > half an inch. > So what I want to do is to trim the top of the door so it will close. I > think I literally only need to trim less than about a 64th of an inch or so. > I do not have a plane and at this point I don't know if I want to buy one > just for this project unless the price is wright. What I do have is a hand > held jig saw. > I hope I can describe what I am thinking about doing. > Since I am taking off so little material I wonder if it would work if I > approached it with the cutting edge of the blade at an angle tward the wood > and the back of the blade away from the wood and dragged the saw backward. > This way I would essentially be aggressively sanding the wood off the top of > the dorr. I am not sure I want to try to trim it running the blade forward > because I think I would end up just gougeing it and making a reall mess of > things. It does not have to be perfect but I don't want to tare up the door > too badlye. > Any other ideas? > Back to the use of a plane. > If I was to get a hand held plane wide enough to do the job with one pass > how cheepley can I find one. I don't even need a very good one because the > work will not be vissable and I don't really see my self using it all that > often. > Robert > >
