What's a good technique for making two boards each perfectly level for gluing togethe
I want to join some 2metre x 25mm x 250mm boards edgewise with glue and dowels and I can't get rid of the crack between them.
I mean in parts. A length will match perfectly then there'll be a crack and so on.
I'm just marking the cracks with pencil and sanding a bit - always using the same board for the sanding - and fit together, take another look.
It's turning out to be very tedious, feels a bit hit and miss and isn't proceeding too quickly. I get the feeling I'm not doing it right.
I've got typical home handyman hand power tools is all. A plane, a sander. That's it. And I do have a couple of old hand planes. Stanley's. A 9.5" and an 18".
My power sander has a 12" sole.
I faltered on the planing because of having to free up the power cord. Would that cause the planing to be uneven, digging in a bit more when going slower?