Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DC on February 13, 2015, 02:32:44 pm
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Has anyone used a power planer for roughing out, maybe floor tillering? I thought it might take a little strain off my shoulders. I would still use a rasp/scraper for tillering.
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I replaced my big dangerous jointer with jigs and a hand power planer, and I use it a heck of a lot, but mostly for laminated bows and handle blocks and stuff, and prepping backings.
I have used it to accelerate the thinning of limbs on board bows, just by taking them down slowly and leaving the little stair steps where the handle/fades will be.
On a stave bow? No, can't say I have. The lumps and bumps, and the need to secure the work doesn't seem to make it eiither easy or safe, exactly. Now that you mention it, though, I can see myself using it to shave down knot wood with a stave clmped on the bench. That's one place a machete or drawknife seems to want to chip up and split stuff where the grain curls.
Obligatory: Just use good sense on safety.
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I use mine to reduce bamboo backing, and to taper lams
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I was thinking about mounting it upside down in a workmate or something and using it like a jointer and just freehand the stave in it.
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I use a hand held power planer to remove bark and sapwood, works like a charm, especially compared to a draw knife....Thanks gmc... ;)
DBar
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I use a hand held power planer to remove bark and sapwood, works like a charm, especially compared to a draw knife....Thanks gmc... ;)
DBar
+1 on the electric drawknife
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I use a power planer to cut the front profiles on my ipé/bamboo bows. I keep my hand planes ludicrously sharp, but they just seem to skid off of ipé.
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Hand planes don't like OS much either
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You'd be better off with a big beasty edge sander in my opinion.
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I have a ryobi hand power planer I dont use. Anybody is welcome to it if they want. Let me know. I only mention this here cause it kinda goes with the subject.
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I only used mine to put a flatter face onto a quarter log to help it run through the bandsaw.
I used it so seldom, I converted it to a thicknesser for billets. V handy for making tapered Yew heartwood billets... but you still have to get one face flat by good sawing etc.
I hate the noise... I think I'm getting less tolerant of noise as I get older... so shhhhhh ::)
Del
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I use one for roughing out power lams for trilam bows http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,39970.msg533425.html#msg533425 (http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,39970.msg533425.html#msg533425). But the next hickory staves I get with firmly attached bark are gonna get attacked with Danzn Bar's use- "electric drawknife" indeed.
c.d.