The thickness plainer jig.

You know, I do own a thickness planer, a jointer as well as allot of other shop tools, but I’ll bet your set up works just a good if not better…because you built it. I love hearing how other woodworkers make the jigs they use…something I have never been good at.

-- Larry in Hawaii,

Nice work there. possibly more correctly named as a “slabber” but it is a thicknesser just the same.
I t will do exactly the same job!

I built one some years ago but not as friendly as yours, keep up the good work!!!

-- Regards Rob

I think this will be great for flattening boards also.
Looks well built and useful

-- I have the Saw Dust Fever

like the rulers

Very nice build and well thought out.

If/when you build an endgrain cutting board you will find out that this will do much better than a thickness planer!

Thanks for sharing this!

Cheers!

-bob

-- Robert Rhoades WoodWorks / Email: [email protected] / www.rhoadesclan.com

Very Good and Practical tool, I have a 20” thickness Planer but I can see a use for this to flattened boards that are cupped and too wide for my jointer prior to using the Thickness planner.

-- Soli Deo gloria!

Great build, well designed and constructed. A thickness planer and face jointer, great tool for woodworking. Have fun with it, happy woodworking.

-- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

This will do something a thickness planer will not. And a lot cheaper than a jointer wide enough to handle a wide board. As long as the platform is true and the board supported where it does not meet the base, flattening a twisted slab would be a snap. I like it. Do not lament, this is a fine piece of workmanship. And let necessity continue to mother invention. Terrific!

-- Dvail12

Nice work!!

It should be a great addition to your shop. Well done!

helluvawreck aka Charles
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-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

Well done. I can immediately see an advantage to it and that is the ability to thickness plane short pieces. I guess you can do it on a planner but it would require some type of sled. How smooth of a finish can you get?

-- “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.” - Chuck Palahniuk

I’ve been planning on building one of these for a while now myself. Probably not as elaborate as yours though, at least to start. Great work.

You done good!

I have a DeWalt 13 inch thickness planer but there are times when it won’t handle some of the stuff that I have to flatten. You design is really good and I may use that idea in the future to make me one. Right now I just use 2 L-shaped guides that are about 8 feet long that I clamp to a flat board.

My Router carriage is about 3 feet wide and rides the guides. I actually made it to flatten my glued up bench tops when I was building my workbench. So the capacity of my setup is about 8 feet long by 3 feet wide.

I don’t need it very much so it is not a permanent as your setup is. Again, good work. Thanks for sharing the idea.

-- Tyvekboy -- Marietta, GA ………….. one can never be too organized

Nice. Just got my first planer. Bought it used off craigslist. It works great for cutting thickness and smoothing a board, but I am stuck if the boards not flat to begin with. I think this will be a great value to you now and in the future. Planers you will come by fairly inexpensively for 12-13”. A jointer of that capacity will break the bank. Looks like another project on my list.

Rian,

Thanks very much for the NEXT innovation in thickness planers. Well done. I really like your solution.
A few questions for you.

What bit are you using?
What’s the HP on the router?
How much material (depth) do you remove in a pass?
Any tear out issues?

I may go ahead and build one of these. I’ll be using your solution for thickness. I’m like you. I’m still watching where the next $ goes. My woodshop is years from being fully equipped.

-- Thanks for all the lessons!