Router Sled for Planing - On the Cheap

Looks good. A router planer is high on my projects list.

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Looks good. You might be able to “disappear” the lines if you rotated the board so that the cutter “cleans” the lines away. Just a thought.
Jim

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Grant:

Looks good, nice work. As for the bolt pattern, I don’t remember why I used a side by side setup, but I’m guessing it was because of my laziness & the desire to cut only one slot on each side piece.

Enjoy, it saves a ton of hand work.

Oldtool

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You could use a card scraper to remove the lines.

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Marty

I have card scrapers, they do not work near as well or as easy on end grain, I can’t get them to bite on the end grain, and I feel that I have a good burr on the cards too.. Have you successfully used them on end grain? Maybe I’m not reapplying the burr correctly. I hit them with a file to make sure that they are flat, then I use a stone to clean off the sides, hit them with my high carbon rod at 90 deg (perpendicular) and then tilt it about 15 deg off from 90 deg a few times, running the rod with a thin film of oil.

-- Grant - N Dakota

I usually stay below 10 deg, closer to 5, when pulling for the final burr.
Good work on the boards.

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Grant- A drum sander would make you soooo happy! Great job on this jig!

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Love the jig, great job. Thanks for sharing

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Nice job on the router sled. It gives me some improvement ideas for my sled. I have some rough sawn Pecan boards to flatten.
I will be building a V-drum sander very soon. I have tried all of the methods you have described. I even have the same ROS. End grain is hard to clean up the lines, very slow process.

Ellery

I recall a cover story in one of the woodworking mags awhile back. An actor on that sitcom “Community” (I think) is also a woodworker and he had a router planing rig he was using to plane huge log-cut table tops that were too wide for most any conventional planer. I think his was motorized. Seems like it took hours to complete. I guess it’s not as important how we get there as long as we get there.

Sorry for being so ignorant, but what bit do you use in the router to plane the surface?

Nice job on that sled Grant !

Gary Thanks, I’ll try that angle

gfadvm I agree 100%!!

kajunkraft No question is a dumb question. It’s a Vermont American 3/4” straight bit.

Thanks everyone!

-- Grant - N Dakota

I have been wanting to make one. I like the way you did this. I think this just went close to the top of my “to do” list.

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I’ve done the router plane thing, but it still requires A LOT of clean up. I’ve had much better luck recently with a 3*18 belt sander an 36 grit belts. I have gotten a lot better at the glue ups, which definitely helps.

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