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1st June 2017, 07:39 AM #16Senior Member
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The thicknesses can be utilised to dress thin material by placing a piece of 19mm mdf on top of the planer table just clamp to table and away you go.
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1st June 2017, 08:04 AM #17Novice
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1st June 2017, 09:08 AM #18GOLD MEMBER
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I have made a number of boxes and used a spiral head thicknesser and jointer to dress the timber. It worked great most of the but there were occasions where I'd get tear out or I wanted to remove a few mm off a short piece and my thicky couldn't handle it. I'd use hand planes or scrapers to finish the surface but when you're making a couple of boxes at a time, it can be time consuming. As much as I enjoy using hand planes I always wanted a drum sander for this purpose.
I ended up getting a 16 32 performax last year and it's brilliant. I had some projects in mind so I could justify the purchase. I searched for a second hand model for a little while but they rarely pop up for sale. I ended up buying a new one at the wood show and got 10% off.
If you were exclusively just making boxes I would lean towards a drum sander. But if you were making other stuff like cabinets, tables etc I would get the thicknesser.
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1st June 2017, 10:09 AM #19Senior Member
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even short pieces are ok if you feed other material touching the end as it passes through the thicknesser
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1st June 2017, 01:42 PM #20
If you do end up with a drum sander, TheSandpaperMan sells VERY goo rolls of SIA cloth backed rolls. The rolls are absolutely incredible.
I use his 80 grit and it has no trouble at all in grinding down considerable thickness with a pass. I also find it does a very good job with the 80 on a light sand, leaving only fine lines easily and quickly removed with a ROS. I've very rarely swapped out for the 120 grit.
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1st June 2017, 04:45 PM #21GOLD MEMBER
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That's interesting WoodPixel,
I've always bought his 120 grit, for my home made drum sander. Perhaps next order I might opt for the 80,....hmmm
Paul
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1st June 2017, 05:04 PM #22
I also meant to write (cat stole my lunch fish while I was distracted!!) that they last a very long time. You can do what seems like an extreme amount of work before replacing them.
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1st June 2017, 08:32 PM #23SENIOR MEMBER
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SIA is a great brand, we used to used their blue cloth backed J flex for most of our linishing work when I polished brassware.
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1st June 2017, 09:03 PM #25Taking a break
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12th June 2017, 08:33 PM #26
I have a high end thicknesser/jointer and use it all the time on rough timber. I have a bandsaw which I use to bring timber to the thickness I require. The most use machine is a thickness sander which I built myself........Very easy........This is the most used machine in my workshop as I mostly build boxes. Give it time, you will get the tools you require.
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