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OT: Any woodworkers here?

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Ground_Loop:
Or, apart from all the nuclear powered industrial options mentioned, you could just take a bit of time and use a cabinet scraper. I promise it will work just fine. 

madires:

--- Quote from: coppercone2 on December 03, 2020, 12:39:21 am ---yea no this would require an auto planer you would probobly kill yourself because you need to resharpen it so often, which is why I suggest mailing it out. That blade is not going to live long doing that cut.

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I don't know what types of hand planers you can get at your local home improvement store and which quality they are, but a cutting edge becomes dull for a hand planer as well for a big heavy professional planing machine with 3-phase motor. Some wood types can be quite demanding. Either you apply some elbow grease or pay someone else for doing that. ;)

Refrigerator:
Planing isn't hard, just that there's a high risk of tearout when cutting endgrain.

coppercone2:
the factory does so much it does not care about 1 extra and they have all the tooling in place to keep their production running quickly

but again, I would just sand it. Its worth doing something because they are alot of work to make.

CatalinaWOW:
Planing will work, but the end grain work requires a good plane iron, extremely sharp and perfectly adjusted in the plane to make it anything other than a wretched chore.  If you aren't experienced it may not be a good route to take.

Since this task requires a multi-hobby/interest approach you might check if you or a friend has a mill.  Something that goes through aluminum/steel laughs at end grain.  You could have a surface ready for finish sanding in an hour or less including setup.  If you go out to a shop to do this your biggest issue will be being sure they don't contaminate your block with coolant, machine oil and other nasties.

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