Thickness Planer

[Greg Newell]

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Terry,
         I think if I were going to do this with a bandsaw cut only I would 
be looking into different blades for the saw. I would definitely look for 
more teeth per inch and perhaps a skip tooth blade as well to attempt at a 
smoother cut. While our saws cut pretty much anything we throw at them my 
experience so far is not one of terribly smooth cuts. More of an industrial 
machine I guess.

Greg



At 11:05 PM 2/15/2003, you wrote:

>Thank you Greg. What a wonderful idea. I'm sure I could make that work 
>somehow or other - at least worth a try. Some of my thinking on bridge cap 
>laminations also runs toward: how smooth a cut do we need? What about just 
>a nice smooth cut straight from the band saw? Something the equivilent of 
>a 60 to 80 grit sanding job?
>
>I cut some sample 1 mm laminations with an inappropriate band saw blade 
>(really coarse) and 9 laminations clamped together totalled 12 mm thick! I 
>guess right around 25% air! Nope, gotta get a smoother surface than that!
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 10:41 PM
>Subject: Re: Thickness Planer
>
>
> > I don't know how feasible this would be but you could attach the piece you
> > want to plane piggy back style to a straight flat piece with double sided
> > tape. Run them through together and then separate and you should have what
> > you want.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > At 09:30 PM 2/15/2003, you wrote:
> >
> > >Ron Nossaman stated that he thickness planes hard maple to 1.5 to 2 mm
> > >thick laminations. I have a 12-1/2 inch DeWald thickness planer, but it
> > >seems the thinnest it will plane down to is about 1/8 inch, or about 3 
> mm.
> > >What planer goes down to 1.5 mm. Or are modifications possible to
> > >accomplish this?
> > >
> > >Terry Farrell
> > >
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Greg Newell
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