Flatten Boards Wider Than Your Jointer!

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Even when you buy pre-milled lumber, sometimes the boards for your woodworking project are not flat and square. But what do you do if the board is too wide for your jointer? I have two methods for flattening wide boards on my 6" jointer. The first is my favorite, and it involves a few passes with a handplane to clean up the edge of the board the jointer didn't get. The second method is to use a piece of MDF or plywood to make a planer sled so you can flatten the rest of the board.
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@MR-si1eq 11 месяцев назад

I have been lucky enough over my yrs to not have that problem. I recently bought a 6 inch and knew there was a way. Thank you. I miss my big one😊

@biscuittreewoodworks 11 месяцев назад

👍

@robote153 Год назад

That blue tape & ca glue tip is really useful. Thank you!

@biscuittreewoodworks Год назад

That is a great tip! Glad you liked it!

@jwrbloom01 4 месяца назад

Definitely a cool trick I learned too.

@gregchoma7693 4 месяца назад

Put a cleat on the bottom trailing edge of the mdf or melamine or plywood... whatever you are using so it hooks on the infeed table and no need to glue it yo the workpiece being planed.

@JL-wi9bd Год назад

Never seen this technique before. Thanks for the idea

@biscuittreewoodworks Год назад

Works great! Thanks for watching!

@monkeypuzzler 11 месяцев назад

This is a great technique! Thanks for sharing this.

@biscuittreewoodworks 11 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@HomeImProveMentHow 2 месяца назад

*Thanks for sharing,* 💥Excellent Trick. by for now ,your new friend Ken, God bless you. I look forward to hear from you.

@biscuittreewoodworks 2 месяца назад

Thanks 👍

@keithbrock6410 Год назад

Nice work, thanks for sharing.

@biscuittreewoodworks Год назад

Thank you, and thanks for watching!

@michaeldriskell6431 Год назад

Great tip; thank you for the video!

@biscuittreewoodworks Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@philipchandler330 11 месяцев назад

Thanks so much!!

@biscuittreewoodworks 11 месяцев назад

No problem! Glad you enjoyed it!

@oldguy1030 11 месяцев назад

I'd just point out that the bigger jointer typically comes with longer in-feed and out-feed tables. This is important for longer boards. So sure, I can use my little benchtop 6" jointer on something like a short 8" board but the real challenge is on long boards.

@biscuittreewoodworks 11 месяцев назад

Yes, you are 100% correct! Bed length is very important if you want to joint longer boards. You need that additional reference surface.

@a9ball1 Год назад

Nice video but I strongly disagree with the blue tape, CA glue. Break open the piggy bank and buy some woodworking double sided tape. Eventually you will find that the blue tape let the CA glue bled through and it will be a mess. It might take many uses before it happens but it will. And when it does it's not fun. You can also use hot glue to stick the boards together but I find it a hassle to wait for the glue gun to heat up. I just discovered your channel and it only took 2 videos to get me to subscribe. Nice channel!

@biscuittreewoodworks Год назад

Thanks for the sub and comments! On the blue tape, I used double sided turners tape for a few years and absolutely hated it. It was sooo frustrating trying to peal the backing off! I usually had to use a razor blade to get under the backing. So when I learned of the blue tape and CA glue trick I jumped on it. If you know of a good brand of double sided tape that’s not so difficult to work with I’m willing to give it another shot!

@a9ball1 Год назад

@@biscuittreewoodworks actually there's a trick to it. I'm not sure if I can put it in words. I'll think about it and get back to you. It makes it really easy.

@larrybud 10 месяцев назад

It's cheaper to buy double stick tape in the first place than wasting expensive CA glue/accelerator. Who the hell came up with this blue tape/ca glue and why it's so popular is beyond me.

@jwrbloom01 4 месяца назад

Newbie here: Why not, without the guard of course, move the fence closer to the edge and the flip the board around to take care of the other two inches?

@biscuittreewoodworks 4 месяца назад

If you do that the resulting face will not be coplanar with the face that was just made.

@jwrbloom01 4 месяца назад

@@biscuittreewoodworks Because they're going in opposite directions, or because there is enough support on the part already passed through?

@biscuittreewoodworks 4 месяца назад

@@jwrbloom01 ok, this may be difficult to explain without visual aids but I’ll do my best. When you joint a board there are two reference points that matter. The first is the rough board to the in feed table. The second is the freshly jointed face to the out feed table. This is a smooth transition as you pass over the cutter head. If you then turn the board around and try to joint the other side you now have a third reference point that has no relation to the other two. It is a different rough surface to the in feed table. This transitions to a fourth reference that is out feed to newly surfaced board. These two out feed references do not exist in the same plane since they are derivative of separate in feed references.

@dmacko 5 месяцев назад

New woodworker here. Why not turn the board around and joint the side you couldn't get?

@biscuittreewoodworks 5 месяцев назад

It won't get flattened that way. The board will sit at an angle and you will not get a flat face.

@cds957 2 месяца назад

This is a great idea, been having this same problem...How do you keep your shop so clean, every video you make shows that the shop is clean and looks nice, I keep all my stuff organized but the saw dust is my problem, I have a dust collection system with everything connected but I still can't keep stuff clean.

@biscuittreewoodworks 2 месяца назад

Thanks! The shop isn’t as clean as it looks on camera! I’m terrible about not putting things away and stuff really starts to pile up! But once I complete a project I go through and put everything away and clean up the shop before starting the next project.

@cds957 2 месяца назад

@@biscuittreewoodworks The Rubio finish that you applied on the jewelry box looks very nice, is that what you use on most of you projects?

@biscuittreewoodworks 2 месяца назад

@@cds957I’ve been experimenting with it for a while. So far I really like it. I’ve also used Osmo and it is very similar. Before the hard wax oils I was using General Finishes Arm-R-Seal on everything. It’s great if you want a polyurethane finish.

@glennryzebol4472 10 месяцев назад

Sometimes you really do need a bigger jointer. Everyone does these videos and uses tiny boards to demonstrate and that`s fine. Totally legit for small projects. show us ow this works for big stuff. I promise it gets pretty challenging when you`re trying to flatten a hunk of 8ft long, 11 inch wide hard maple at 2 inches thick. I just did it. Hella frustrating and time consuming.

@biscuittreewoodworks 10 месяцев назад

You are right! If you have to flatten long boards you need a longer bed length. But, if the project doesn't have pieces that are 8ft long, then you can cut the boards down before jointing them and still use a smaller jointer. I can joint up to 8" wide on my 6" jointer, but anything wider and I have to use other methods or cut the material down more.

@gregchoma7693 4 месяца назад

Consider though that a skilled handtool woodworker can plane any size board with a 24" handplane and get it perfectly flat. Weird but true

@joehoman3117 2 месяца назад

If you're going to use the planer with the planer sled technique, couldn't you just secure the board to the sled, flatten one side, then remove it from the sled and flatten the other side without ever running it through the jointer? Seems like you'd have two flat parallel surfaces with that technique

@biscuittreewoodworks 2 месяца назад

Yes, if you have a sled that is as long as the board, you can secure the board so it doesn't move and flatten one side, then flip the board over and flatten the other side. It works, but it is a bit more of a hassle than running the board through the jointer first.

@larrybud 10 месяцев назад

Just use doublestick tape!!

@biscuittreewoodworks 10 месяцев назад

If you know a good double sided tape that works well and won't cause me to rip my hair out trying to get the backer off please let me know!

@larrybud 10 месяцев назад

@@biscuittreewoodworks Sure, GolfWorks double sided grip tape. Use it all the time, no problem

@biscuittreewoodworks 10 месяцев назад

@@larrybud Interesting, a golf club tape. I've used double sided turner's tape and it's horrible. I'll give this a try. Thanks!

@HomeImProveMentHow 2 месяца назад

@@biscuittreewoodworks Did this tape work ?? I look forward to hear from you bye for now your new friend Ken.

@biscuittreewoodworks 2 месяца назад

@@HomeImProveMentHowI haven’t tried that tape yet. I got some SpecTape that works well though.