Thread: cleaning up a pile of rough sawn hardwood

A 12'' thicknesser will easily cope with those boards.

However, you'll also need a jointer to true one face and an edge.

You really need to run them over a jointer first to make sure they are flat and you can also square the edge then too. A 12" thicknesser will handle that size no worries

Originally Posted by djstimber

You really need to run them over a jointer first to make sure they are flat and you can also square the edge then too. A 12" thicknesser will handle that size no worries

I have to have a jointer AND a thicknesser? Never used or even seen a jointer either, but I guess I will go poke around Bunnys.

Sounds like it might be serious money, though.

Originally Posted by Mutley2003

I have to have a jointer AND a thicknesser? Never used or even seen a jointer either, but I guess I will go poke around Bunnys.

Sounds like it might be serious money, though.

Yup! but go poke around Hare & Forbes or Carbatec. Or better still, go to the WWW Show at Moore Park Showground, 15th - 17th June. Take your chequebook.
Cheers
Graeme

Originally Posted by Mutley2003

but I guess I will go poke around Bunnys.

You won't find one in Bunnings.

The Timber and Working With Wood Show is on in Sydney from 15/06 to 17/06.

There will be plenty of jointers to see there.

It got my planer from GasWeld in Canberra a 6" for $399 a three blade job and works great.

It seems like the terms "jointer" and "planer thicknesser" are used somewhat interchangeably. A "thicknesser" seems to be a machine with the cutting heads on top, but Carbatecs planer thicknesser and jointer seem to be about the same.

See, for example, here

http://www.carbatec.com.au/store/ind...=180_400_19803
http://www.carbatec.com.au/store/ind...h=180_370_2360

Question is, can I use one of these machines to do my work ie put the timber on the side to do the edges, then along one face etc. If I butt joint the boards then I will have uneven thicknesses, but a belt sander might be good enough for the finishing?

Those links don't work they only show the CT map page.

A jointer can either be a stand alone machine or you can get them in a combination jointer/thicknesser machine. You switch the machine for whichever function you want. Either way, to end up with square boards you have to start with a joiter (or buzzer just to be a bit more confusing). When you have one face perfectly flat and one edge at 90 degrees to the face, then you can pass it through the thciknesser to plane it to the desired thickness.

Alternatively, you can get in touch with your darkside and dimension the boards with a couple of hand planes.

This is the first link that mut is showing which is a combination machine



And this one is just a jointer



You need to use a jointer first to flatten and square two faces and then feed the boards thru a thicknesser to obtain a boards off even thickness.

If you have already got a thicknesser, you only need to get a Jointer

Originally Posted by craigb

Alternatively, you can get in touch with your darkside and dimension the boards with a couple of hand planes.

Or at least get one side flat enough so the thicknesser will produce a flat board.