David Lang wrote
Rod Speed wrote
David Lang wrote
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.

There isnt enough of them on the bottom of a door to matter, ****wit.

So you now agree that there is end grain on the bottom of a door?

Not enough to matter and you can't see it with the door back in place
anyway.

You are an utter idiot.

You are a terminal ****wit.

If you plane across the end grain of the stiles it will break out and look
awful.

You don’t know that there is any stile
visible in the door the OP wants to do.

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.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

You are in no position to call anyone silly.

I've designed and build an entire passive solar house on a
bare block of land, more than you have ever done, thanks.

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.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

You are in no position to call anyone silly.

I've designed and build an entire passive solar house on a
bare block of land, more than you have ever done, thanks.

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.

He clearly didn’t have any problem with the stiles either.