Thread: Torque work centre for surfacing

Search router sled. They are easy to make cost very little and can surface unlimited width and length.

This is one design, it will give you the basic idea:

https://lazyguydiy.com/lazy-guy-diy/...l’-Slabs

If your slabs are rectangular you can just clamp some straight timber along the long edges and clamp some rails to your router so it rides on them and move the router around to create a flat surface. Note this does what a jointer does, makes a flat surface. A thicknesser creates a parallel surface, not a flat one. If you use a sled to do both sides you have to set it up carefully to get them dead parallel.

An electric hand planner and a pair of winding sticks is a very fast and efficient way of doing it .

I had thought of that but how do you attach the sticks to the planer ?

Originally Posted by damian

I had thought of that but how do you attach the sticks to the planer ?

should I be laughing ??

Originally Posted by Danny Lee

I have explored the idea of thicknessers but they are limited by width size.

You can go up to 1350 wide if you have a couple hundred grand lying around, it'll even sand it too

Originally Posted by damian

I had thought of that but how do you attach the sticks to the planer ?

Just using winding sticks to sight the surface level after traversing the slab with the electric planner Damian. Not attaching them in any way.

I do this for any big slabs to wide for the thicknesser. Some big two slab table tops get made that way.

Rob

Perhapse I don't understand what winding sticks are. I've been busy these last few days. Friend in hospital so distracted. I realise you can adjust the planer but sighting and electric planing I would have though would be too aggressive ?

Anyway, as I said I'd thought if you could find a way to make a planer sled somehow it'd be so much faster and more efficient than a router.