Finish Thicknessing Outside Edge

[P Josey]

I'm thinking of buying a Wagner Safety Planer to use to final thickness the outside edge of the top and back plates. Can't find a Wagner safety planer anywhere. Has anyone tried a router rabbiting bit in a drill press for the same purpose? I'm curious as to what other methods are used to accomplish this.

Paul Josey

[Chris Baird]

Woodcraft.com has saftey planers. I know a few other places have them too. They run about $45. They work wonderfully for thicknessing the edge of plates and also for thicknessing the back of the peghead. I've not used a router bit for the job. A router bit is made to spin above 20k rpm, a drill press usually tops out at 3.8k rpm.

[sunburst]

Here it is (http://shop.woodcraft.com/Woodcraft/product_family.asp?family%5Fid=3189&gift=False&mscssid=F5E604E7329F47E2AE6F88CD4741A376)

I have used various router bits in the drill press, I recomend the safety planer, it works much better and "feels" safer. Pay attention to the RPMs. They don't work well slower than recomended.

[P Josey]

Thanks Sunburst.

The safety planer will be shipped out to me Monday morning. Yet another problem solved via the Cafe. Now, if I could just get my hands on copies of the Dude on DIY TV, hmmmm......


Paul Josey