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anti-snipe trick
By:Greg
Date: 4/20/2002, 3:08 am
In Response To: Re: Cool toy! (Don Beale)

: Garbage in - beauty out.

: I have an older Delta 12", before they went to the 12-1/2. I guess the
: newer ones dont snipe as much as mine does. I havent used it for strip,
: mostly because Ive been using cedar and redwood, which sands quick. With
: hardwood, I'd definately saw it oversize and run it through the planer.

: Careful those nails :(

Here's a handy tip for planers w/o anti-snipe.

when feeding your boards through start the same one first everytime so only that one has snipe on the leading end. Also, mark another board to be the last fed to keep the trailing snipe isolated to it.

Greg

Messages In This Thread

Tools: Thickness Planer
Kurt -- 4/18/2002, 3:22 pm
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Dave Houser -- 4/19/2002, 3:49 pm
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 4/19/2002, 8:53 am
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Bill Pendlebury -- 4/19/2002, 7:24 am
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Ken Finger -- 4/19/2002, 7:21 am
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Eric Martinez -- 4/19/2002, 2:16 pm
Ditto!
Brian Nystrom -- 4/19/2002, 2:06 pm
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Tom Armstrong -- 4/19/2002, 8:25 am
Re: Cool toy!
Don Beale -- 4/19/2002, 12:57 am
anti-snipe trick
Greg -- 4/20/2002, 3:08 am
Re: Who could be anti-snipe? *Pic*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 4/22/2002, 9:08 am
Do I detect a name for the next design here? :) *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/22/2002, 10:40 pm
Re: Snipe-hunting
Don Beale -- 4/22/2002, 10:25 am
Re: anti-snipe trick
Don Beale -- 4/20/2002, 11:10 am
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Kurt Loup -- 4/18/2002, 8:26 pm
Re: Thickness Planer
jim kozel -- 4/18/2002, 10:08 pm
Re: Thickness Planer
Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge -- 4/19/2002, 9:01 am
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Gini -- 4/18/2002, 5:45 pm
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
jim kozel -- 4/18/2002, 4:09 pm
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Pamela Watson -- 4/19/2002, 8:40 pm
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
Bob -- 4/18/2002, 5:11 pm
Re: Tools: Thickness Planer
jim kozel -- 4/18/2002, 10:04 pm