Hi,

I had a local cabinet shop run my maple tabletop through its wide-belt
sander. The result was a nice uniform thickness (good) but it also
produced a very shallow waviness (bad). The waves, which crest about 2
inches apart, are *barely* detectable by feel and only visible at
shallow angles with the right lighting; still it bugs me.

What would be a good method for removing this waviness?

I'm pretty new to woodworking and have not built up an arsenal planes
but am always looking for an excuse to buy something from LeeValley.
So if the solution is to plane it down which LV plane would be best
suited for the job?

Thanks.

Brian

On 3 Feb 2007 14:32:37 -0800, "
wrote:

Hi,

I had a local cabinet shop run my maple tabletop through its wide-belt
sander. The result was a nice uniform thickness (good) but it also
produced a very shallow waviness (bad). The waves, which crest about 2
inches apart, are *barely* detectable by feel and only visible at
shallow angles with the right lighting; still it bugs me.

What would be a good method for removing this waviness?

What grit did they sand to?

Typically, a well tuned smooth plane or random orbit sander from 120
grit, up to 220 grit, will remove the waves.

It sounds like they actually had a drum sander, not a belt sander.

B A R R Y writes:

What would be a good method for removing this waviness?

What grit did they sand to?

Typically, a well tuned smooth plane or random orbit sander from 120
grit, up to 220 grit, will remove the waves.

Put pencil marks on the high spots, and sand them away.

Repeat.



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