Planing Jig - How to Use Your Planer to Joint Wood | Woodworking Jig
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Published 2016-04-07
Jointing wide lumber boards on a planer can easily be accomplished using this planing jig and few wooden wedges.
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It's not too often you can adapt any of your woodworking tools to do other things, but when you can it's like having a brand new woodworking tool in your shop. Such is the case when you can turn you planer into a wide board jointer.
Normally a thickness planer is used to plane wood to an even thickness after one face side has already been jointed and is flat and even. If you are in a situation where you have a board that is wider than your jointer, it is possible to joint on face of a board using your planer. The simple trick to this is to make a planing jig from a flat board like a high density fiber board. The idea is to insert wooden wedges in the gaps between your jig and your board to be planed. What this does is prevent your board that is being jointed from rocking in the planer and coming out as warped as it was when it went in. By forcing it to be be stable, the planer has a chance to shave the top edge of the board, thus giving you one flat side. To make your board an even thickness, simply turn it over so the flat side is down and plane your board to thickness and in no time you will have exactly what you are looking for, a wide, flat, evenly planed board ... all with the help of a simple planing jig.
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All Comments (21)
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Omg THANK YOU SO MUCH. I knew there had to be a way to use a plainer as a Jointer, i made a table for it..... lol i didnt SHIM IT. I was halfway there. Using the old tools of my grandfather and father and 80% self taught from AMAZING Youtubers like you and a touch of cleverness. Thx
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The anti slip mats are amazing. So glad to see you use them as some of the 'complex jigs' I've seen are ridiculously over-engineered and don't produce any better results. Thanks for the really helpful video.
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Thanks a million Colin. So helpful! I just finished my 9ft planer sled. I have a jointer but it’s clumsy to do long boards so I’m using my planer now. Let the machine does the work!
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Finally a simplistic sled without all the bs. Just what I was looking for. Thank you!
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Much simpler solution than some others I've seen! Thanks so much!
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I bought a planer first because I primarily make drink coasters from reclaimed wood and they're already flat enough for that small size. I've recently been asked to make some bread and cheese boards and this is a perfect way for me to get the boards flat enough to not wobble. Thank you for this video.
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THANK YOU for the tip! I did not want to buy both a large planer and jointer for my garage since I have so little room, and thought that there must be a good solution to use one machine. Now I will simply buy a wide planer and make a jig like yours
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Here's an alternative method. I had a piece of walnut that was twisted, and I had no flat base to put it on. So, I cut two strips of pine. Lay the walnut on a countertop that's flat, and attach the strips of pine to each side, so that they touch the countertop from front to back. I used panel nails to do this. Then run it through the planer. The strips form the flat bottom, and you can easily plane a flat surface. Then, remove the strips and plane the opposite side. Works like a charm.
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Oh boy, so glad I don't need a jointer (yet). I watched some other videos purporting to joint with a planer, but they were pretty intimidating. This makes it pretty simple.
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Thank you for this! As a new woodworker trying to decide what to buy this makes life so much easier. Not just that, but the space savings is pretty great as well.
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Fantastic. Just bought a bench top planer and this is exactly what I need!
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I never thought of this! I have a planar but no joiner. Thanks Colin!
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If you run your uneven board thru planer where it barely takes any wood off then turn your board over and run it back thru without resetting the planer, do this a number of times and it will true the board up. I have proved this to non believers time and time again. The trick is not to take much of a bite as you go. It does take longer to do it this way but it can be done. Thanks for your vidio's.
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Just a note of thanks. I made the jig for my planer to make it also a jointer. Worked great. Now oddly I have a 6" jointer. However, I hade wider wood so I was planning to cut all the rough lumber to 6". Saw this amd made a sled out of MDF and ran wood through the planer. save me a whole jointer step and now I have wider boards which I wanted anyhow. Yea. Still have to plane the other side but now I have a flat side to work to. Didn't think it would work but it did.
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Thank you, I just bought some 7' X 8/4 lumber the other day and I also bought a 4x8 sheet of fiber board and will use that to make a planer sled with a stop. I also purchased some sheets of 120 grit sandpaper and will put that on my sled and with the shims I purchased flatted the lumber. Very good video, great idea!
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Colin - This video is so well done and consequently very useful. I've watched a few other videos about making jointer sleds, but your explanation of how the shims fit and how to use a gripping pad makes all of this much easier to understand. Thank you for making this.
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I just want to thank you for your planer jig. I made one and have used it a few times and it works great!!! Thank you so much.
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love this YouTube Channel, just bought a planer today and I will be trying this out tomorrow
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Simple but effective! Thanks.
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This worked great! I saved a twisted Claro Walnut live edge slab using this method.
