I have a planer which doesn’t allow me to put in rocker by adjusting the depth of cut while planing. How would I go about shaping in rocker without this feature in the planer. If I plane the thickness down and then go back and cut in the rocker, it could turn out looking stagy. Any suggestions?
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Any suggestions?
with your name , you and ‘sirwanksalot’ should start a business !
User Clark blanks, use their rocker.
Clownpenis.fart? What is that?
With your non-adjustable planer, set it to a shallow cutting depth. Attack your blank where you wanna change the rocker in a cross-cutting angle against the stringer. Your starting point will be on foam and end off the end of the blank. Go slow, because cross-cutting rocker in will rip out chunks of stringer when you go too fast or cut too deep.
Edit: Leave one pass worth of foam for after the cross-cutting. Then do your final pass for that side nice and slow. All your choppiness should be gone leaving you less to sand by hand. If you had a Hitachi, it is roughly 1/8" if the plates have not been modified.
If you plan on going further into rolling your own board and plan on doing more, buy another planer that is adjustable. Ebay an old skill 100 or buy a modified hitachi from clark foam.
Get yourself a copy of Jim Phillips master shaping dvd.Covers all aspects of the shaping process.
It will save you alot of headaches later on.
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Get yourself a copy of Jim Phillips master shaping dvd.Covers all aspects of the shaping process.It will save you alot of headaches later on.
…that…and a new name…
LeeDD is dead on. Clark has soooooo many shapes with built in rockers that all you have to do is skin the board and hand sand it. If Clark’s not an option you can skin the blank with your planer then use a sanding block with 40 grit to take down the foam and a VERY sharp block plane for the stringer. I’ve done this several times it works just fine. Be sure to take your time and count those strokes, otherwise you’ll put some pretty nifty twists into your blank.
Were you in a John Waters film?
One more thing about planing. Forward cuts cut the full depth, while pull (drags) does about half. When you are grinding thickness, you will be pushing the planer. Dragging works when cleaning up stuff like concave work or bevels from your railbands.
never drag backwards always forwards
Is this the Scott from F.F&F?
yes it is whats up sr pato now have clark in stock just fyi mahalo scott
Sounds good, probably stop in around the 1st to stock up for the next board.