http://www.wwgoa.com/forum/ en Fri, 24 May 2013 06:25:22 +0000 http://www.wwgoa.com/forum/topic/plaining-mdf#post-149 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:23:45 +0000 Editor 149@http://www.wwgoa.com/forum/ <p>Jun. 23, 09 - 08:19AM</p> <p>It&#39;s not a good idea to send any man made materials through a planer. This includes mdf, particle board, and plywood. While your planer probably will cut them, it won&#39;t cut them for long. These materials are very hard on the planer knives, since the knives are tool steel, not carbide.</p> <p>All of these products are, of course, made out of wood, but it&#39;s all that glue holding the wood together that can quickly beat up planer knives.</p> <p>If you can find someone with a surface sander, you could thin down your mdf on that.</p> <p>If you do this, keep in mind that mdf has a &quot;skin.&quot; The two faces are compressed more tightly than the core. You can see this if you look closely at the edge of a piece of mdf. Removing the skin will reduce some of the paintability that&#39;s inherent in mdf. </p> http://www.wwgoa.com/forum/topic/plaining-mdf#post-118 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:49:09 +0000 Member Comment 118@http://www.wwgoa.com/forum/ <p>Jun. 22, 09 - 01:29PM </p> <p>Can you plain MDF. I have a table top plainer. Need to plain down some MDF from 1/2&quot; to 3/8&quot;? </p> <p>Submitted: Jnovak </p>