Woodcraft Magazine video: Super Slab-Milling Jig. You can hand plane a slab, or use a portable belt sander, but both are very labor intensive, and getting a perfect result may be difficult. Here are some detail links on planing a large slab with another choice, using a router sled. Flattening a large slab can be challenging, regardless of having a large planer or thickness sander, because one face of a slab still needs to be flattened before feeding it through one of these machines. Which would you choose?īoth surfaces were pre-flattened at the s awmill before purchase.
The decision as to which surface should be topside and which should be the bottom, wavered several times as the grain pattern on both were equally appealing.
