Can You Plane Plywood?
I’ve always wondered but never dared try…. until now!
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why o why lol
You are crazy lol 😆 gotta love you 👍👍👍👍👍
It’s plane to see you got rid of that pesky oak veneer.
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i searched this a few days ago. there was no video of this thank you
The point was to make me smile, I needed to be cheered up
The point of the video was to answer a question that comes up at some point one learns woodworking. Thanks for the video!
Well it is good to know that if you have a minor defect that you can plane it down smoothly as long as you don’t blow through the veneer.
Why would you plane plywood when the veneer is so thin to begin with? What’s the point? Makes absolutely no sense to me.
And this is where my Patreon money goes? Just kidding. It guess it isn’t “can you plane plywood?”so much as “what happens when you plane plywood?” And I, for one, have always secretly wondered .
The oak is just to protect it during shipping.
Dumb dumber and dumbest. A dangerous and pointless waste of time and great way to damage planer blades and irons. You’re lucky nothing shattered on you…which plywood through a thickness planer often does. People get hurt doing stoopid things with power tools, and these were stoopid things.
Pretty interesting experiment, dude! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Interesting…
Useful for subfloor install with uneven floors
You madman! You’re messing with the laws of nature! Have mercy!
I need to clean up my workbench top. this definitely answered my question
THANK YOU for this! I LOVE experiments, and you are not alone. I too have have run plywood through power planers just for curiosity’s sake; but only through my boss’s planers after he pissed me off. Another FUN experiment is power-planing a finished guitar… body. DO NOT power plane an entire guitar, especially with the metal hardware still in place! Sure that’s FUN, but the results are less than pretty. I get the best results with Telecaster style bodies. Once you remove the hardware, they’re just a slab of glu-lam anyway.
It’s surprising though! Some expensive guitar bodies are made of Shite wood. ( Not sure of the actual genus/species name. Ask an Irish Xylophile.) Some very inexpensive bodies (Squire) are made of very nice Ash, Paulownia, and Luan; the Asian rim-job version of mahogany! Luan is the same SHITE wood we find marketed as "mahogany" at Menard’s here in the United States of Corruption.
Of course, the Nitrocellulose Lacquer and abrasive primer they robotically slather on cheap guitars dulls costly planer blades instantly. One can easily gum-up a $30K planer in a few seconds! …Joy! But when your boss pisses you off TWICE in one day, …’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. ;- )
Very informative.
The tool wall looks great., never ever once considered running plywood thru a planer though…….
Most of the time, everybody wonders but no one dares asking. Always ask the dumb question ! Thanks for giving it a shot 🙂
I’m sure you’re aware, but Paul Sellers, hand tool woodworker extraordinare, made a video series making a traditional workbench out of laminated plywood using mostly hand tools. Great series, I recommend it.
I somehow think that I missed the point of this video?
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Great video. Answering uncommon questions is a great resource for those without experience. I could see this being used to fix minor issues or even as the basis for an inexpensive project; maybe replaceable inserts for hobby tables and the like.
Oh, I think you know the point of the video is to see if anyone watches it.
This reminds me of those who incorporate plywood (plies of very thin sheets of wood) into segmented bowls to turn on their lathe. Makes about as much sense as drinking bleach to cure COVID…….eh!
Point to you for trying something that I’ve had asked myself but never answered myself, lol. Thank you for sharing and it’s not far from what I’ve thought results would be. In reality I believe if you use a very fine, multi blade planner I’m pretty sure you can get fine results!
Peace
I’ve planed the edge of plywood before with a hand plane…that’s doable lol
If a useless machine became sentient and setup a youtube channel, I wonder what would it be like……………………..
Why are we here?
What is the meaning of life?
Can you plane plywood?
These are the top 3 questions man has yearned for the answers of since the dawn of plywood. Love your videos 😀
Can you plane plywood? Yes. Would you want to? Sometimes: I recently made a huge block by laminating strips of birch plywood together face to face, and before gluing a piece of oak to the front, I had to square it up a little. Planing the top layer is perfectly possible, even cross-grain – if you have a half decent hand plane with a sharp iron.
I’m not bragging, I only have restored vintage Stanleys, nothing fancy.
Actually this was useful. I want to use my thickness planer as a jointer on some pieces of wood by shimming them up on top of a piece of plywood. I’ve seen videos on it, but it occures to me that the while the plywood shouldn’t need to be perfectly level itself (because the planer will press it down), it should probably have an even thickness throughout for best results. I was concerned about whether tearout would be a significant problem. A normal person would just try it and see what happens, but with my tendencay to over-research eveything before I try your video had saved me a bit of time, lol. Thanks!
Does the glue dull your tools more than wood?
Some questions don’t need answering, some answers never had a question.
Ummm it flies
Great, now what am I supposed to do tomorrow now that you solved this mystery for me?
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
I will not lie, this is 100% a question that I had for literally no reason, and you provided exactly what I wanted. A video that says "can you? yes. but why tho?"
Lock down getting to ya bud?
This was helpful to me, thank you. I edge jointed two plywood scraps to make a bigger board but they shifted during glue up and it ended up with high spots. I was thinking of hand planing down the plywood surface to flatten it. In the end I found I had 3 high spots but 1 low spot, so I just filled the low spot with a layer of filler instead. Gonna paint over it after.
This is not the video we asked for, but its the video we deserve.
Why would anyone plane veneer plywood. Not so much a question as WTF
Next Video – What happens when you plane a sandal
Wow you gave me the best laugh of the week only because I used a hand plane Monday to try and smooth out some rough plywood Got the same results and I’m still laughing
Great video! Was always wondering myself about thickness planing some plywood. If the second layer always looked like yours, I’d definitely do it as a cheap substitute for ambrosia. Next video: cleaning off sanding dust on pads with the sole of a sneaker. (It actually works!)
Try using OSB next time :p
Next week comes in 2 parts can you CNC a jelly, then, part 2 ice cream dowels !!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄
how about planning laminate 😂😂😂
What happens when you try to plane a piece of oak veneered plywood?
You make thinner, non oak plywood – for the price of oak veneered plywood.
You’re right, this question was never asked, but now it will never have to be.
Ever. 🙂