thickness service in Sydney?

[bassmansimon]

Hi
I have a burl slab approximately 1200 x 850 x 60mm that needs thicknessing. Are there any companies in Sydney that do this service for a fee?
This is a one-off request for a mate but I am keen to find out as I will be making some basic furniture soon.

Thanks, simon.

[The Bleeder]

Simon,

Has a similar situation when I made my work bench. Once the top was glued up it warped.

Tried finding a company in the southern part of Sydney that could flatten it but to no avail.

In the end since I was not going to get out the trusty No 7 and do it by hand I built a router sled and used a planer bit.

Took longer to build the router sled that it did to flatten the top. Since then I have used it about a dozen times and mates have also borrowed it.


So in answer to your question ... No ... I didn't find a company to do it.


BTW where abouts are you in Sydney as there may be a company out west that can do it as I only checked out places in the Peakhurst and surrounding areas.

[bassmansimon]

Thanks steve. This one is for a request for a mate living in the city. I have done this previously with coffee table size slabs and just used a belt sander starting with 40 grit paper and moving upwards. The other way is electric planer, and also creating a sliding rig for a router like you mentioned.

I thought the idea of a thicknessing service might be too good to be true.

Simon.

[Chris Parks]

Timber yards will be reluctant to touch it as they have no guarantee that it does not have foreign matter in the slab that will damage their machine.

[bassmansimon]

Thanks Chris that makes good sense

[doug3030]

Timber yards will be reluctant to touch it as they have no guarantee that it does not have foreign matter in the slab that will damage their machine.

That is what I have found too. You can do very large boards and slabs with a router sled.

I have a Carbitool R3 5512 surface planer bit that I have used once (picked up last month a the Melbourne WW show) but for a fairly small job but I can see the potential for larger things. It has three replaceable inserts each with four faces, so you just turn the insert if you hit a nail, and carry on. They also have ones with four replaceable inserts. Inserts are cheap, but come in a pack of 10, which doesn't divide evenly into three or four. I cant figure out why they don't come in packs of 12.

see http://www.carbidetool.com.au/media/carbitoolrouter(8).pdf and search for "5512" It will bring up the bit I have and the 4-fluted ones as well.

Cheers

Doug

[crowie]

Sometime in the past 12mths a forum member on the northern beaches got old railway sleepers cut and dressed in Brookvale area from memory...
I'll do a forum search for sleepers and see what I find for you...cheers, crowie

[crowie]

This may help....
http://www.woodworkforums.com/f132/cutting-railway-sleepers-171925/

[bassmansimon]

This may help....
http://www.woodworkforums.com/f132/cutting-railway-sleepers-171925/

Thanks crowie