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Excalibur

29/09/2003 4:59 PM

Can MDF be planed down?

I am in need of MDF in a thickness of 1 5/16". All that the home
centers have is either 3/4" or 1/2" thick boards. The width will be
about a foot. Can a cabinet shop plane down one of the 3/4" thick
pieces so that when I glue the two pieces together I come up with 1
5/16"? Is MDF easy to plane or can it even be planed? Thanks.


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"Norm Underwood"

in reply to Excalibur on 29/09/2003 4:59 PM

29/09/2003 5:45 PM


"Excalibur" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I am in need of MDF in a thickness of 1 5/16". All that the home
> centers have is either 3/4" or 1/2" thick boards. The width will be
> about a foot. Can a cabinet shop plane down one of the 3/4" thick
> pieces so that when I glue the two pieces together I come up with 1
> 5/16"? Is MDF easy to plane or can it even be planed? Thanks.


Yup. I've planed it down when I needed a thinner substrate for
veneering. Once it gets below about 5/16" it starts getting chewed up
though.

YC

"Young Carpenter"

in reply to Excalibur on 29/09/2003 4:59 PM

29/09/2003 7:49 PM

Be prepared to sharpen and sharpen
If you can locate someone with a drum sander you would be better off.
Otherwise modify something either plans or materials


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Young Carpenter

"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"

"Excalibur" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I am in need of MDF in a thickness of 1 5/16". All that the home
> centers have is either 3/4" or 1/2" thick boards. The width will be
> about a foot. Can a cabinet shop plane down one of the 3/4" thick
> pieces so that when I glue the two pieces together I come up with 1
> 5/16"? Is MDF easy to plane or can it even be planed? Thanks.




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"Rumpty"

in reply to Excalibur on 29/09/2003 4:59 PM

29/09/2003 9:13 PM

I'd change to poplar for this project.

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"Excalibur" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I am in need of MDF in a thickness of 1 5/16". All that the home
> centers have is either 3/4" or 1/2" thick boards. The width will be
> about a foot. Can a cabinet shop plane down one of the 3/4" thick
> pieces so that when I glue the two pieces together I come up with 1
> 5/16"? Is MDF easy to plane or can it even be planed? Thanks.

Mi

"Mike in Mystic"

in reply to Excalibur on 29/09/2003 4:59 PM

29/09/2003 5:07 PM

I'm not sure how much it will cost you to have it planed - I do know I'd
never put it through my own surface planer unless I was ready to throw the
knives away (or resharpen them right away).

Why don't you just modify the design by 1/16" and face glue a 3/4" piece to
a 1/2" piece? I have seen 1/4" MDF before, too, but that won't really help
you for this application.

If you can't/won't modify the design, then could you get away with
sandwiching a piece of 1/16" wood between the two MDF sheets?

Mike



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There are no stupid questions.
There are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.


"Excalibur" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I am in need of MDF in a thickness of 1 5/16". All that the home
> centers have is either 3/4" or 1/2" thick boards. The width will be
> about a foot. Can a cabinet shop plane down one of the 3/4" thick
> pieces so that when I glue the two pieces together I come up with 1
> 5/16"? Is MDF easy to plane or can it even be planed? Thanks.
>

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Andy Dingley

in reply to Excalibur on 29/09/2003 4:59 PM

29/09/2003 6:24 PM

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:59:09 GMT, Excalibur <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is MDF easy to plane or can it even be planed?

Yes, but the surface will be rather poor. If there's any lack of
parallelism in the thicknesser bed and cutter head, then the quality
will be really poor.

Tool wear will be high, but it's OK for a one-off.

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Smert' spamionam


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