Sanderxpander said:
I've trimmed a few doors with my 55 but never used a plane on it. I think I did lightly hand sand them before painting but I dare anyone to spot any roughness from skipping planing after two layers of ground paint and two layers of finish. Let alone it's the side or bottom of the door.
Weird, personally I hardly ever touch a door with a sander.
In fact, its a rare day when I sand anything.
Plane? Hell yes,
Cabinet scraper? On hardwood sometimes, not much good on softwood.
Sander? I don't even own one although I guess my multicutter thing counts with the right attachment.
Surely it takes longer to sand a door edge than to do a couple of passes with a plane? What about removing the arris/sharp edge?
This is in a commercial environment and I'm a carpenter not a piano maker, I've done shuttering in sewage works and finishing carpentry in a billionaires grouse shooting lodge but realistically most of my work is kind of in the middle of that and schools, care homes, bars, some housebashing but I try to avoid that cos the money isn't really there.
To my eyes a decent handplane is an amazingly versatile tool, doesn't need plugged in and gives the best finish.
A sawcut is never a finish detail unless I'm building a barn, hell I even try to hide it on formwork so it doesn't end up on the finished concrete.
I still say that using a saw is a perfectly valid first stage for a door edge, but just giving it a few passes with a handplane is so easy and effective that i just can't work out sanding it instead.
On the door bottom, hell yeah, who even see's it? Unless its badly setup and some wally has designed it so it opens onto a stairwell without a landing its against the floor.