Wood Planer Jig

[LeeH]

Hello All,

My brother given me a Bosch Planer,

What I was wondering is Can you Buy a Jig for Planing off wood Planks, like say you would an industrial type planer?

The blade on the one I have is about 80mm wide, I seem to get wedges on the planed face of the wood when I move across the plank

My thinking is, if there were some sort of Jig that would support/hold the Planer in place above or below, the wood stock could be pushed through rather than you actually pushing the planer by hand, it would be doing a job like industrial Planer which are more accurate

I cant afford the proper workshop planers at the moment, but if I had a jig I could use the hand power planer my Brother gave me.

 

[9fingers]

I've never used one but I think it is a standard Bosch accessory.

Bob

EDIT: I just searched the Bosch PT site and it seem they have stopped making it.

 

[George_N]

Hand-held power planers are tricky to use at the best of times. They can take off a lot of stock in the blink of an eye and just like a traditional hand plane, you need to practice and develop your skill with the tool. Personally though, I have never got on with power planers and I either use a hand plane or a router with a long bit, if that will do the job. The only jig I'm aware of is one that Triton used to make for the Triton Workcentre...by all accounts it wasn't one of their best developments and I'm sure they stopped making them years ago. Sorry if that is all a bit negative but I'm sure that other forum members will be along to offer better suggestions.

 

[MikeG.]

Lee,

don't even try! You will end up using a hand-plane, or a belt sander across the grain to get the planer marks out. Hand-held planers are great for shooting in a door.........but that is about it. Don't let them anywhere near anything wider than the blade.

Mike

 

[LeeH]

Thank's for replies,

I haven't really got the time, but looks like I may have to see if I can put one together, I have been thinking on it, and it looks quite an easy thing to put together , as long as I can build it out of stuff that I already have lying around.

lee

 

[LeeH]

Mike,

Yes your dead right there, I found that out, it don't seem to matter how careful you go, still leaves ridges in the wood.

lee

 

[AndyT]

I've got an old magazine article on something like this. But I think it was a jig to thickness timber that was narrower than the plane.

However, you might have some fun with a jig along the lines of what people have built for routers. (There are probably some posts here about flattening bench tops.)

I'm imagining some deep straight edged timber alongside each side of the wood you are working on. These are the rails along which you can freely move the plane, which hangs below a rigid bridge which can move side to side.

You'd need a vertical adjustment which could be as simple as a series of shims either under the rails or under the wood. Or an adjustment on how far below the bridge the planer would hang.

Interesting idea, but probably not worth it unless you had a lot to do - but if you had that much, you'd buy a cheap p/t!

 

[studders]

I find them great for getting rough/dirty stock reduced to close to the wanted size. You have to finish off with hand planes bit it's way quicker than using handplanes alone.