Thread: A little help with scales?

It would be a labor of love....definately not the easiest route.

A hand plane "can" be had for a little money...if you have razor honing equipment you probably already have everything you need to get the blade up to snuff. After that, a little time on google and practicing on *cheaper* oak or other hardwood and you could do it yourself.

Not saying this is what you SHOULD do, but if you'd like to do it yourself you don't HAVE to go buy an expensive powertool/shop-machine.

yeah, I could do it with a hand plane, and I don't have any problems making the scales or polishing the blades (they are done)... I am just trying to save myself some time by seeing if anyone has a thickness planer and wouldn't mind running my boards through it for me to get it down to the thickness I need... this would be for future use as scales.

You know, I have had some trouble finding nice wood in 1/8 myself. I have hesitated buying some of the 1/4 stuff I have found just because I don't have the tools to easily reduce them to 1/8. Anybody know of a resource for nice, thin boards?

Woodcraft.
Google "Thin Wood" or 1/8" wood.

I found lots using those words.

I know that my local Rockler store has a selection of 1/8th in a variety of types.

You know, I have no idea why I had not done that yet.

Yes, searching "thin lumber" gave me lots of resources.

Thanks

It's not a bad idea to buy wood already at 1/8th, but the problem is that at places like rockler or most sites that would have "thin wood" (from a google search) pick your wood for you. I like to select pieces of wood specifically for each job, and I almost always pick a particularly figured or exotic wood. I could set up a jig to resaw my pieces to 1/8th, but there is greater risk for splitting the wood and leaving huge marks. A thickness planer would get the job done in about 2 minutes leaving an almost perfect surface, I may just have to get one. I thought for sure someone here would have one in their shop.