How To Use A Stationary Planer

Whenever you're working on the planer, it's very important to wear your health and safety equipment. For camera purposes, I won't be wearing mine today, but please wear yours. Basically, a stationary planer is what it says.

It's a planer that stays where it is, doesn't move and the cutters on the top and thicknesses go underneath. Basically, any good joiner would have one of these machines. Normally, a DIY novice wouldn't have one of these.

What it basically does it levels out your stock. It squares it up ready for joinery and cabinet making. Basically, what this bed here will do, you'll go over the top, flat the piece out.

Then, you set the table with the guard at 90 degree angle. So, it's going to be a perfect timber. Once you flatten the surface out, you simply put it against the fence and flatten out the other side.

That then creates one angle that is 90 degrees. Then all you simply need to do is on your table, the rip saw, rip it roughly to the rip you want, feed it underneath the thicknesser. That will give you the perfect thickness and perfectly square piece.

Remember your mask and your glasses, very important. So, now I'm going to show you how to square the stock. So, now that the machinery has stopped, there you have it.

We planed the flat and we planed the edge. We now have a perfect 90-degree angle now. I can simply go now to the thicknesser, push it through underneath, take it out.

The thickness is the required length and then I'll turn it around and to the same off the top. But I'm not going to use this machine for that which I normally would. I'm going to use a machine that you guys at home might have.

Just before we go on to that, as you noticed, as I was passing it through, my hands weren't in contact with the wood. This is very important. I used what they call a push stick.

I let that set on the top. It has a Velcro padded area. If I were to use my hands when the blade was in motion and I slipped my hands are going to go into the blade causing me a lot of damage.

I also, when I turned it around I was doing that, I was cutting it the other way. This is done for two purposes. Just make sure the timber is perfectly cut flat and parallel.

So basically, I would pass it through. I would turn it around and I would repeat the process. Basically, to get it square, I then push it up to the fence.

Do exactly the same, once again, using the push stick. Very important to use this guys. .