All it is is a flat board with a stop glued onto one end. The board goes on the sled and you shim the underside at the points needed so it won’t rock when you press on it. The idea is this will make the top surface level enough. Then you rub it through stop side first so the planer doesn’t send your board flying off the sled due to the rotation of the cutters. Then you have a flat top surface, flip it, and run the board through without a sled so you now make that plane parallel to the first one you did. Yes, glue up face grain. I use hand planes for jointing but you can get close enough for your purposes with the table saw as long as your top and bottom are parallel. Ends won’t matter until after glue up and then you can run them through table saw to get them squared off.
I've never made an end grain cutting board, but I advise you to research the many methods to flatten them thoroughly. Sending one through the planer improperly can be catastrophic to your piece and blow up your planer, while exploding pieces can become violent projectiles.
Ah yes I have seen those sleds. Great info. Thanks. Excited to get started on this. any recommendation on sled material? 1/2 plywood?
timely thread bump, I just retired and want to spend some time on some projects that have been deferred for a long time, including some bookcases and wooden storms for the house. For the storms I decided getting a mortiser would help speed things along and found a decent one for a good price on fb marketplace today, picking it up Friday. Hardest part of the whole project will be finding the wood, need 6/4 cypress or western red cedar, neither of which are widely available where we live. But that's the goal for the spring
thanks, but we're in upstate New York. There are folks who will ship cypress but the freight is killer
Look like you have lots of options - a quick google search provided ~30 suppliers in "upstate New York." hardwood supplier in upstate new york - Google Search
most of the hardwood dealers upstate only have oak, maple, cherry etc. Oak logging is big business where we are
I get that calling it ‘upstate’ is regional and grandfathered in for the New England area. I’ll give them that. Why can’t Dallas just call themselves ‘Upstate Texas’. It is not North Texas.
update on continued searching--this supplier has 1-1/4" thickness planed cypress, which would be ideal for a finished window frame thickness of 1-1/8". Other dealers only have 2" stock, which would lead to a lot of wasted material. Requested a quote for shipping on 200' linear feet. We'll see what the shipping looks like. https://www.jimmys-cypress.com/products/Smooth_Planed_1-14x6-.aspx
Idk how old this post is but That board is still going strong. I even left it outside for like 3 months a couple years back. Just had to grease the bearings.
Make this happen: https://robertaugust.com/collections/boards/products/retro?variant=9020680323 https://www.tikimaster.com/pacific-island-art/surfboards/ https://selectskateshop.com/collections/koastal
Well I’m currently making a vanity/laptop desk for my special lady. An oak tree on a certain historic site had to be felled due to the last freeze and I was able to have them give me a slice of the trunk. I then split it into pieces with a froe and brought home rough boards to plane and cut to size. The plan was to do it all with hand tools but I got tired a little impatient so I cheated and did about half of the board milling in a shop at work. The joinery and shaping is/will be all period with hand tools, though. The legs have already absorbed some blood so it is a true extension of me.
