I've been lurking around here for a while, and am now ready for my
first question, please be gentle.
I got given a lot of oak and maple boards from an old library
(shelving) - good decent stuff - but it has of course been varnished,
lacquered or shellaced or whatever. To get to the real wood can I just
plane/thickness it down - or is this coating bad for my knives .. any
recommendations are much welcome - check for nails first I know to do
cheers
elgine
larry wrote:
> I've been lurking around here for a while, and am now ready for my
> first question, please be gentle.
>
> I got given a lot of oak and maple boards from an old library
> (shelving) - good decent stuff - but it has of course been varnished,
> lacquered or shellaced or whatever. To get to the real wood can I just
> plane/thickness it down - or is this coating bad for my knives .. any
> recommendations are much welcome - check for nails first I know to do
>
> cheers
> elgine
That is what I've done with a bunch of oak from desks. No signs of
planer blade damage, not that I was expecting any.
Consider the alternatives. stripper, sanding, or scraping it. A gallon
of good stripper is in the ballpark price of a set of the typical 12"
planer disposable blades. Sanding will save some wood but is a lot of
work unless you have a drum sander. Scraping first with a cabinet
scraper could make followup preperation easier, but one pass in a planer
will give you a flat, clean surface for next to zero effort.
-Bruce
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You can strip, scrape, sand, or plane. Planing is the fastest and easiest.
Is it good for your planer cutters? Planing wood isn't good for planer
cutters, short of just admiring them once and awhile nothing is good for the
cutters. Even then they'll eventually rust. That is why they make them
replicable.
The only question you have to ask is whether you'd rather bust your ass
stripping varnish or by new cutters a little sooner.
--
Mike G.
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Heirloom Woods
www.heirloom-woods.net
"larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I've been lurking around here for a while, and am now ready for my
> first question, please be gentle.
>
> I got given a lot of oak and maple boards from an old library
> (shelving) - good decent stuff - but it has of course been varnished,
> lacquered or shellaced or whatever. To get to the real wood can I just
> plane/thickness it down - or is this coating bad for my knives .. any
> recommendations are much welcome - check for nails first I know to do
>
> cheers
> elgine