Hi,
What’s the proper way to plane down the bottom of an oak veneer door ? I have an electric planer with settings to adjust cut. I’m just a little concerned about damaging it by taking a chunk of the end.
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Planing oak veneer door
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Re: Planing oak veneer door
When I had to take a bit off the bottom of our oak veneer doors when the carpets were fitted with a thicker underlay , I used my evolution circular saw that has got a general purpose blade in it.
I put masking tape along the bottom edge both sides then measured what I needed to take off then clamped a straight edge the right distance away. I only had to take off about 6mm from the bottom and if I had chosen to use a electric planer it would have mashed the veneer but the saw left no scraggy edges and was quick.
I reckon the minimum amount you might possibly get away with by using a circular saw is the width of the blade plus 1 or 2mm, but that may still rub on the carpet fibres so you might as well take a little bit more than what you need all in one go.
Mike
I put masking tape along the bottom edge both sides then measured what I needed to take off then clamped a straight edge the right distance away. I only had to take off about 6mm from the bottom and if I had chosen to use a electric planer it would have mashed the veneer but the saw left no scraggy edges and was quick.
I reckon the minimum amount you might possibly get away with by using a circular saw is the width of the blade plus 1 or 2mm, but that may still rub on the carpet fibres so you might as well take a little bit more than what you need all in one go.
Mike
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Re: Planing oak veneer door
To avoid that, don't run the plane off the end: start from both edges to plane that part of the door, not just one cut all the way across.Sparky70 wrote:
I’m just a little concerned about damaging it by taking a chunk of the end.
To avoid any veneer breaking out on the face of the door, score the cut line with a sharp Stanley knife. I score these not on the waste side of the line but on the good side and then finish from the cut to the score with a block plane, this puts a tiny chamfer on the bottom edge and helps prevent any future break out when a small piece of grit or whatever gets under the door.
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