Old Performax 16-32

[JR]

I don't think you could have done any better than that! Excellent deal. In fact it deserves at least a lower case "you suck"!

JR

[garymuto]

Congratulations! You got a great deal and you'll be surprised at how much you will use that sander in the future.

[poolhound]

Congratulations! You got a great deal and you'll be surprised at how much you will use that sander in the future.

I am sure you are right and thats why I am so excited to have it as I can think of so many uses. The glue up I mentioned earlier from Sunday was for a cutting board made from a lamination of Cherry, Maple, Walnut and Padauk. Even when I planed the stock before glue up trying to minimize tearout was a real PITA. As I glued it up I spent ages thinking how to ogranize the grain in each strip so that when I planed the glue up it wouldnt tear out some more.

It was either that or lots of scraping, belt sander and hand plane. And thats before I resaw the block into 2 and have to do the other side

When I got the drum sander home all I needed to do was to pare off some of the dried glue run it through the DS with a few passes on each side and it is PERFECT

Given that one of the things I want to do is more boxes with exotics the idea of trying to use the planer wasnt exciting. Now I can easily resaw some of my valuable stock and precisely thickness on the DS with no worries of tearout.

[Uncle Cracker]

Given that one of the things I want to do is more boxes with exotics the idea of trying to use the planer wasnt exciting. Now I can easily resaw some of my valuable stock and precisely thickness on the DS with no worries of tearout.

Remember that the drum sander is primarily for finishing, and that major thicknessing is still a job for a planer. If you must take more than a little material off on the DS, be sure to use heavy grit paper and many small passes. Getting too aggressive will result in clogged or burned sanding media.

[poolhound]

Remember that the drum sander is primarily for finishing, and that major thicknessing is still a job for a planer. If you must take more than a little material off on the DS, be sure to use heavy grit paper and many small passes. Getting too aggressive will result in clogged or burned sanding media.

Understand totally. I was thinking of the case where I may have some 4/4 exotic thats already milled and I want to resaw it. At that point each half will already have one flat face and all I need to do is true up the saw marks and make each half the same thickness. In this case it would only mean reducing it by 1/32 to 1/16 max.

Even for more general stock that may be rather tearout prone I can use the planer to get it within a 1/16 of final size and then use the drum sander to bring it the last step without the typical gnashing of teeth that acompanies a lump torn out of the middle of a fine board just as you thought you had escaped the planer enscathed...