Thread: Someone to finish 4x2 hardwood lengths for lamitating

If they are old hardwood floor joists then I can bet there will be more than one nail lurking beneath the surface. I for one would be very hesitant about running these through my thicknesser and ruining a set of expensive blades.

Stewie

You could perhaps try a men's shed but I am with Stewie on this

Yes, I made a few calls today and got that feeling. However I got the feedback from Swadlings that if I run a plane over it, they'll at least have a look (ie I stuff up some relatively cheep electric plane blades). It may be simpler to spend a bit more time post rough planing to simply true it up though. I'll see how I go.

It did sound like people have previously claimed to have removed all nails, etc., and seriously screwed some gear up.

Thanks for your thoughts guys.

Hi

Going to a Men's Shed is a good idea. If your local one is like ours, they will have a metal detector hanging on the thicknesser.

Originally Posted by billymayday

Hello everyone, I have a number of old hardwood joists, 4x2, that I would like to get squared off and planed so I can laminate them into a benchtop.

Each is around 4m long, and I've found that trying to square and finish them with an electric plane is not ideal.

Does anyone know where I could get them run through a suitable thicknesser or similar? I'm looking at about 12 lengths.

I'm in Sydney's east.

Thanks

How badly out of square are they ??

Are the "4" sides not parallel ??

If they are parallel, why not just give them a light plane to make them better for laminating, then laminate the top together.

Once the top is laminated make a sled, clamp a set of rails to the desk sides, put router in sled with 25mm bit (if you have a router that can take a 25mm bit in a hard timber) and use the sled to level up the bench

This is how I levelled up my bench tophttps://www.woodworkforums.com/f213/k...ml#post1526459 If you scroll down to post #57 the last photo is the Sled, I did not have a pikky of it in use but If you need help I can explain it to you .

Kat.