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Tried a router sled for flattening instead of hand planes
Had to flatten a big walnut slab for a client's dining table in Nashville. Spent half a Sunday setting up the router sled and got it dead flat in 20 minutes. Hand planes would have taken me twice as long and I still would have had low spots. Anybody else ditch the hand tools for power on big glue-ups?
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martinez.kim22d ago
Oh buddy, hand planes still have a place for dialing in that final finish, but you're absolutely right that a sled is way faster for getting it flat.
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tara79322d ago
Sled for roughing out, plane for the satisfying part.
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