Planing Wood Floors

All surface planers will somehow allow you to adjust how deep the wood will be planed.

Planing wood floors. The instructable will describe how i went through the process of getting the wood ready to plane usin. Mount hope planing produces unique hand made solid hardwood mhp flooring primarily from native ohio hardwoods. If you want background on the entire leveling project i suggest reading the shingle method post first. Using a wood thickness planer like this one from delta power tools reduces the risk that you might make mistakes when planing boards for various projects.

Up first in hardwood flooring week is tackling a particularly challenging section of our subfloor that couldn t be leveled using our asphalt shingle subfloor leveling method. Often this is via a hand operated crank that lifts the planer s housing the higher the housing the shallower the planer will cut. When you re planing the wide surface of the board inspect the grain on the narrow edge. I bought some wood off of craigslist.

We offer many species of woods with numerous stain and finish options and special finishes and techniques which include hand scraped hand planed saw cut and thresher s floors. The delta power tools 22 555 thickness planer has a 15 amp motor that can handle both bigger and smaller jobs its unique knives system lets you quickly swap out the blades for planing hard. If you have a glued up hardwood surface to plane first support it firmly on the bench against one or two strips thinner than itself as shown at a fig. If your bench happens to give when pushed against brace it in any convenient way.

Set the planer to your desired thickness. Feed the smooth direction forward into the wood planer. The fellow said it was redwood from a barn. Specializing in hardwood furniture trim carpentry cabinets.

Planing a hardwood surface. How to prepare reclaimed wood. As with a hand planer it s wise to initially make shallow cuts. On rough lumber you can feel the fibers by running your hand over the board.

It is essential too that the bench be absolutely rigid. The design of a spiral planing bit allows you to plane widths of wood equivalent to the length of the cutting edge on the bit. I decided to restore it rather than using it with the aged look.