On 24/03/2016 16:35, Rod Speed wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Tim Watts wrote

Agreed about the saw, but a bit of straight wood
clamped to the door to use as a guide will do fine.

Not entirely true - an electric plane will
be fine - I've done it, on several doors.

Me too.

I suppose it depends on the door design,

Not much.

but planing across the grain isn't usually the best way.

You aren't planing across the grain with the bottom of a door and
you don’t need the best way with the bottom of a door anyway.

Of course you are halfwit. They are called stiles.

And electric planes ain't the easiest of
things to get a perfect edge with either.

You don’t need a perfect edge with the bottom of the door.

Yes you do.

A sharp circular saw up against a bit of straight wood as a
guide will give a near perfect cut along and across the grain.

You don’t need a perfect cut with the bottom of the door.

Yes you do.

Yes, a circular saw and a sawboard is certainly quicker when
you have those and are being paid to do that, but the plane
is a lot better when doing it for the first time because you
get to take a bit off at a time until the door work well and
there is no risk of taking off too much when its done in one
go. It isnt easy for someone like the OP who doesn’t even
know how to do it to work out how much to take off. With
a plane you can do it a bit at a time and stop when its enough.

The one thing with a plane on a door top/bottom is not to
come off the far edge, but to plane from both edges to the
middle, otherwise you can knock a lump off the corner.

I learnt that on door #1 !

After that it was fine.




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