« Reply #30 on: October 12, 2017, 07:10 PM »
Having made several dozen end grained CB's over the last couple of years, I cannot strongly enough emphasize how tedious it's going to be to try to flatten a board with a RO 150, especially once the end grain has been turned up. Maple, purple heart, walnut, my main choice of materials, are extremely hard and it takes a long while to flatten this way. it's also very hard to be precise as well. My suggestion is to get a decent planer and glue sacrificial boards to each end and then take very small bites. The sacrificial boards will keep the end grain from splintering and I have had a lot of success doing this method. Once they are flattened, then use the RO150 from 80 through 220. They will come out as smooth as glass.


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