How to make a marking gauge their own hands simply.

One of the important tasks in the preparation of the material in the wood - it prostrugivanie blanks in the thickness dimension. This problem is usually solved using the gauge or correct planers.

In this publication, we are not talking about industrial machines, and about how you can solve this problem - prostrugivanie blanks in thickness dimension to a conventional elektrorubanka.

When I have a home studio just started to form there is a need to make chairs. Material for chairs served not Edged beech scaffold and its first needed prostrogat in size before making the details of the chairs.

I only had elektrorubanok and I decided to make a small adaptation to a plane as a plane surface gauge. And the ability to adapt to get more than the planers, but more on that later.

The first version of the device.

Device turned really simple - a base of approximately 1.5 meters with bars along the edge of the part length top frame and suspension for the planer.

Board, which had to be placed on the plane base and riving. The frame is made of the length of the planer. The height above the planer workpiece adjusted using paired slats of different thicknesses.

Planing device such as the need is usually a plane, passing one strip frame with a plane, I returned to the original, slip plane in the frame and took a new band. Thus it has done several times until the planer can reach the workpiece at a predetermined thickness chocks. Then places another liner to reduce the height above the base of the planer and the process was repeated.

That is, as in the conventional planer, only blank fixed and the width of the workpiece is traversed several times.

For clarity, you can see the video

The second version of the device.

Later I modified the design to get away from pads adjust and increase the width of planed board.

Height adjustment of the planer to get more accurate. accessories are easily mounted on a workbench.

Design is a little more difficult than the first version. Tying the planer was made for a specific plane.

To use this device to get a good otstrugannuyu surface of the workpiece is necessary exactly, without distortions to install blades in the planer. About how I install and configure blades in the planer overcame in this article - How to install blades in elektrorubanok

Also I recommend to see the article - How to make a device for sharpening knives elektrorubanka

The video below shows a demonstration of this device.

Benefits of adaptation.

This solution has several advantages compared with the machine.

One of them - is the ability to whittle wide (400 to 500 mm) of the workpiece.

Other - this leveling planks screw. Strict through the usual marking gauge, screw the board remain so. In the same fixture screw board laid motionless on level ground to keep it from dangling applied lining. After aligning the one hand piece is flipped and already rests on the base level.

The photo above is just planing seen such a "screw" - plane is parallel to the table and plane just the upper part of the "screw".

Also in this device, you can whittle a short - less than 300 mm. details and more steps at the entry and exit is formed.

Disadvantages of course also have - low productivity and high volumes plane so - tedious and time consuming.

True to me personally to-Yourselfers lack of such a decision.

As I did so a device can be viewed here:

Surface gauge of the planer. Photo report. Part 1

Surface gauge of the planer. Photo report. Part 2

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Alexander.