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9th December 2015, 06:03 PM #1Member
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Cleaning up two large slabs of wood. Suggestions?
I've got 2 large labs of timber I've been carrying with my from house to house for years now.
They're each 60 x 300 x 2400 slabs of very dense hardwood. Too good to throw out so I've been carrying them with me for years till I decided what to do with them.
I came to the idea a few months ago that I will use them as the surface of a workbench. However they're heavily weather worn and need planing clean - I'll need to take maybe 5mm off the work surface.
Given their size and eight, can anyone offer a suggestion as to how to best go about cleaning them up.--- Cheers. Paul.
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9th December 2015, 07:25 PM #2Taking a break
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Find someone with a large enough buzzer and thicknesser, no point busting your butt trying to do it by hand if you don't have to.
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9th December 2015, 07:48 PM #3Member
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I was thinking of contacting my local Men's Shed and seeing if they had a suitable thicknesser.
From memory they had a small unit. a 12 or 13" benchtop unit.
I was a bit worried about overloading it. Not sure if 20' of timber would be ok or too much.
I may just have to ask.--- Cheers. Paul.
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9th December 2015, 09:00 PM #4Taking a break
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It'll handle it, you'll just have to take lots of small passes.
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9th December 2015, 10:31 PM #5
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10th December 2015, 03:03 AM #6
Edge joint 'em and glue them together first, then clean up the work surface.
finding someone with a 600mm wide jointer or thicky is probably near impossible, so instead look for someone with a woodwiz.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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10th December 2015, 05:04 AM #7GOLD MEMBER
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Alternatively machine them first individually on your local men's shed unit and glue them together later. If you use some biscuits for the joint, the glue line should need minimal clean up afterwards.
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10th December 2015, 05:24 AM #8Member
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Would it be practical to try it on my own bandsaw?
I have a 2hp Hafco unit with a 350mm throat that might make the cut.
I think a thicknesser would probably do a cleaner job though.
Alternatively machine them first individually on your local men's shed unit and glue them together later. If you use some biscuits for the joint, the glue line should need minimal clean up afterwards.
I have no shortage of planes and scrapers including a very nice 450mm long jointing plane.--- Cheers. Paul.
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10th December 2015, 10:51 AM #9
your issue will be getting the final glue-up flat enough to be useful as a bench.
This will be very difficult to achieve just using a bandsaw to slice a bit off each slab.
If properly flat is not your final aim, there's really no need to glue the slabs together.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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10th December 2015, 11:56 AM #10GOLD MEMBER
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A good way to get your workbench top flat is to use a routersled to flatten the top after the bench has been assembled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtkBZHLJyD0
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10th December 2015, 03:59 PM #11Frequent Learner
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10th December 2015, 04:17 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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I have had a good guy at Beenleigh flatten some large slabs of Huon Pine for me. His charge was very reasonable. I don't know if he is still doing it but PM me and I will give you his contact details. He actually collected and delivered the finished slabs back to me in Brisbane having jointed them and glued them too (before he flattened them so the surface was perfect). They were too big for me to handle at the time but he didn't seem to have any problems.
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10th December 2015, 07:51 PM #13Senior Member
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I recently used this method
I secured the wood to a bench with double sided tape.
Placed two pieces of patio tube either side of the slab and made a sled which my router can run on. Rest the sled on the patio tube and make passes over the slab.
Works great.
I used a large router bit from carbitool which worked a treat.
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