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alan stassforth

Post subject: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:49 am

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I was thinking about getting one.
I plan to use it for thicknessing peghead veneers, roughing out a carve top electric,
and was wondering if I could thickness wood bindings.
No info on forum archives, but I did find some videos on how to use it.
Looks good, but I'm a little wary of it.
Do you like it?
How is it on figured wood?

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WaddyThomson

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:02 pm

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I don't know about stock as small as binding strips. That could be troublesome. I have one for my drilll press and one for my radial arm saw. I don't use either very often, as chip control is impossible, or certainly elusive. Stuff goes everywhere. It's big stuff so it's not dangerous, but it makes a mess. It would be nice to have a Safe T Planer booth.

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Quine

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:45 pm

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I love mine. I use it to thickness just about everything...pates, sides, bindings, veneers, curly grain woods, etc.
For bindings you have to thickness the board and then cut it into binding strips. Just one strip by itself would probably break.
It is messy with the chips! Sometimes you can position a shop-vac hose to catch most of them.
It does leave swirly marks so leave enough material to sand them out.
I think its a great tool for the money and pretty useful for light duty luthier stuff.

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Cocephus

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:17 am

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Getcha one and you won`t regret it!

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Dave Anderson

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:31 pm

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I've been using one for years and wouldn't want to be without it.

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Fred Tellier

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:38 pm

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Dave can you actually get a fingerboard flat enough with the Safe-T-planer

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Dave Anderson

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:59 am

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Yes. Your table needs to be set up perfectly flat to the planer.I put a support board under
the table too so there is no movement . Here's some set up info from Stew-Mac :

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Planes/Wagner_Safe-T-Planer.html?tab=Instructions#details

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Antonio

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:30 pm

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With a radial bench drill, do you think one can plane a jointed back or top?

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alan stassforth

Post subject: Re: Safe-T-Planer

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:15 am

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Dave, I like your hold down device!
I still didn't get one, because woodcraft sold it 2 days ago.
I'll get one though.
Might work well for roughing out my bridges,
which look sort of like classical ones.

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