I would be interested to know if any of you have tried sanding with a
drum sander to produce a taper across the width of a board.
I have a Performax 22-44 and needed to produce a board approximately 36"
x 6" with a thickness at one side of 1/2" up to 7/8". I made a shim of
approx 1" x 3/8" and used two-sided tape to hold it onto the edge not
requiring the sanding. I then sanded it with the other edge up.
Worked perfectly.
Any thoughts or comments?
Glen Duff
On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 3:44:04 PM UTC-8, Dave wrote:
[about making a board with nonparallel faces]
> Glen - I am looking at doing something similar and had considered trying your
> technique. Thanks for posting and validating this idea as solid. I plan on
> repeating this several times, so I'm thinking of making a jig. Maybe some
> type of sled with an adjustable taper "bed" that I could secure the piece to.
Pull out your hollows and rounds. One plank rounded, under a second plank hollowed,
and you have an adjustable slant board to put under the one being surfaced/thicknessed.
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:51:20 -0400, Glen Duff <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I would be interested to know if any of you have tried sanding with a
>drum sander to produce a taper across the width of a board.
>
>I have a Performax 22-44 and needed to produce a board approximately 36"
>x 6" with a thickness at one side of 1/2" up to 7/8". I made a shim of
>approx 1" x 3/8" and used two-sided tape to hold it onto the edge not
>requiring the sanding. I then sanded it with the other edge up.
>
>Worked perfectly.
>
>Any thoughts or comments?
>
>Glen Duff
did that last week on a french door threshhold.
ran it through the thickness planer first, though. too much material
to remove with the sander.
replying to Glen Duff, Dave wrote:
Glen - I am looking at doing something similar and had considered trying your
technique. Thanks for posting and validating this idea as solid. I plan on
repeating this several times, so I'm thinking of making a jig. Maybe some
type of sled with an adjustable taper "bed" that I could secure the piece to.
I'm thinking to clamp a guide strip to each side of my infeed table so the
sled tracks without skewing as it moves into either my planer and drum sander.
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My only thought is that you are extremely proud of yourself! :)
David
Glen Duff wrote:
> I would be interested to know if any of you have tried sanding with a
> drum sander to produce a taper across the width of a board.
>
> I have a Performax 22-44 and needed to produce a board approximately 36"
> x 6" with a thickness at one side of 1/2" up to 7/8". I made a shim of
> approx 1" x 3/8" and used two-sided tape to hold it onto the edge not
> requiring the sanding. I then sanded it with the other edge up.
>
> Worked perfectly.
>
> Any thoughts or comments?
>
> Glen Duff
>