On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 7:41 PM Andrew Heybey  wrote:

> We recently redid our kitchen.  There is a small island in the kitchen,
> the top of which is about 3’ x 3’.  A friend gave us a large slab of beech
> to use as the top of the island.  The slab is is about 36” by 45” by 3-3.5”
> (it tapers from one end to the other).  It is also bowed by about 1/2”
> across the narrow dimension.
>
> Wow, for being on the list since 1997, you have not succumbed to the too
many tool choices that some of us have.  But seriously, moving up to a
bigger plane may help.

What little slab work I have done has greatly benefited from using a 5 or
5-1/2 diagonally, alternating diagonals. I’ve used my winding sticks and a
longer straightedge to figure out the highpoints, remove them, and repeats.
 ( I have a friend who built a router device for this, kills me to see his
FB feed). The extra mass if the -1/2 is a nice touch.  A big wooden plane
could be used as well.

Kirk in Half Moon Bay, CA, who was again without Internet for 8 hours
yesterday, and only calls and texts on the cell phone, like some 3rd world
country, again.


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Sent from my iPad, apologies for the Auto Correct errors. Kirk