Planing jig for warped wood

I don’t have a joiner, so it’s a difficult for me to square a piece of wood that’s not true. To flatten the edge of a board, I can use my router fence or the jig I made to run the edge of a board past my table saw blade, but I have no great way to flatten the face of a board.

I’ve occasionally clamped a board to my work bench and used a hand plane to flatten a board enough to make it usable, but I rarely do this because I don’t generally buy rough lumber. I’m unlikely to get a jointer because I can’t fit another large power tool in my one-car garage, but this jig looks quite handy and might make me buy rough lumber more often.

I like this design of this planer jig. I can see myself buying one inch rough lumber and dimensioning it to 3/4-inch quite often with this jig.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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