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charlie b
 
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Default Wide Planer, or Compact Planer + Wide Sander?

Upscale wrote:

So you're saying that it would be ok thinning the panel before one added the
stiles as long as you planed with the grain?


Sure - BUT (there's always a "but") - there are two reason for post
glue
up panel surfacing

1. to remove slight alignment problems (exagerated (sp?) for purposes
of
illustrating a point)

+------------+ +--------------+
| |--------------| |
+------------| |--------------+
+--------------+

or
2. cupping of glued up parts

+--------+ +--------------+
/ +------+ \ / +------------+ \
/ / \ +--------+ / \ \
+-+ +----------+ +-+

In both cases, you're planer knives are going to encounter dried glue.
The dried glue CAN dull or knick your planer knives.

Note also that if you milled are your stock to thickness before any
gluing, then thin the panel but not the stock for the rails and stiles
the panel face will be low relative to the rails and stiles faces.
Once the rails and stiles have been glued, with the panel floating
between them, you CAN'T run the glued up door through the planer
You CAN run them through the drum sander.

charlie b