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Re: Tools: Building a strip thickness sander
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 1/10/2018, 11:19 pm
In Response To: Tools: Building a strip thickness sander (Paul Montgomery)

I have recently made a thickness sander that is basically a jig that fits on my belt sander.

Very good! I like shop-built jigs and tools.
I've made a few wide thickness sanders for guitar building, and I also have a small commercial drum sander with power feed.

One big advantage of using your belt sander is that there's more abrasive area (compared to a drum sander) so the abrasive lasts longer and stays cooler and resists clogging when sanding oily woods.

You need to get up into the $5-10k wide sanders to get belt models, last time I looked.

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Tools: Building a strip thickness sander
Paul Montgomery -- 1/10/2018, 8:39 pm
Re: Tools: Building a strip thickness sander
JohnAbercrombie -- 1/10/2018, 11:19 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 1/11/2018, 12:47 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 1/11/2018, 12:43 pm
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Rich D -- 1/11/2018, 1:44 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/11/2018, 3:37 pm
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Randy Echtinaw -- 1/12/2018, 5:00 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/12/2018, 5:43 pm
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Randy Echtinaw -- 1/12/2018, 8:11 pm
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JayBabina -- 1/11/2018, 3:33 pm
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Paul Montgomery -- 1/11/2018, 4:09 pm
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Rich D -- 1/11/2018, 5:54 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/12/2018, 12:17 am
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Paul Harker -- 1/13/2018, 9:59 am
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Paul Montgomery -- 1/13/2018, 10:31 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/17/2018, 5:59 pm