This is interesting, How do you insure that you are taking an equal amount off with a disk sander the length of the board?
I am wanting to get me a decent 6 inch belt 9 or 12 inch disk sanding station but I never thought of using it for that purpose. They also make those long vertical oscillating belt sanders for edge sanding but they are really expensive and again, not really designed to insure a straight edge but doubtless a better finished edge. Even if your saw leaves a really quite good edge, if the starting edge isn't straight the ripped edge will follow the imperfections in the edge against the fence. A sanded edge though will not have the chatter marks of a jointer or any tear-out you can get with highly figured grain. I certainly did a lot of work without a jointer before I had one. Now I have one I sure do use it quite a lot. I just waxed the bed and fence this afternoon mostly though because I had the wax out to wax my snow shovels, snow was sticking to my heavy steel scraper which is additional work I don't need.. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Yearns To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Do I really need one? After you reip a board how smooth is the cut? Do you have a dist sander and table you can run the board along or do you have to hand sand the edge? How do you know that you can sand that edge vertically? One of thes may answer how a jointer can be helpful to you. I have to admit I haven't used mine very much, but I have a disc sander on a table to sand the sawn edge. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Max Robinson To: Blind Handyman Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:45 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Do I really need one? I'm wondering if I really need a plainer and/or joiner. I see Norm on the Yankee workshop use his but he does some pretty advanced stuff. For example, I once saw a show where he visited a wood lot and picked out the trees he wanted. They were felled, taken to a sawmill where they were milled to Norm's specifications. When they arrived in his shop they still had bark on the edges and were very rough. Obviously, he needed to do some plaining on them. In another show he visited an old barn in Georgia which was torn down and he picked out the boards he wanted and they were shipped to Yankee country. I doubt if I will ever do anything even close to this. I go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy dimensioned boards of pine, oak, or what ever, take them home and build the project. So, do I really need one? If I could only buy one, which one? By the way, older shows of Yankee workshop are now showing on the D I Y channel. In the original P B S version where he used the barn wood he used a hand held metal detector to find nails so he could remove them before ruining his expensive equipment on them. In the D I Y version they showed him removing nails but the part about the metal detector was cut out. The shows have been cut down to 20 minutes so they can get in 10 minutes of commercials. Better watch them on P B S. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
