Planer Sled Plans

Build your own planer and jointing sled. It carries a bowed or twisted board through a thickness planer on a flat base, supported in its natural shape by wedges, so the first pass cuts a truly flat face.

The 12-page PDF covers:

• How the sled works, and the two dimensions that matter
• Sizing the sled to your planer and your boards, with a fill-in worksheet
• A worked example: a 1669 mm sled with 15 battens, cut from one 300 mm strip of a 2400 × 1200 sheet of 3/4″ ply
• Cut list, cutting diagram, dimensioned drawings and an exploded view
• Nine illustrated build steps
• Setting up and planing a board, including where to place the wedges and clamps

Dimensions in mm with inches. A4, and prints on US Letter. Designed for the Gaz Gadgets Planer Sled Wedges and Clamps, sold separately or together with these plans in the Planer Sled Bundle.

Licence: for personal use only. Do not share, upload or resell the PDF or printed copies of it. You may sell sleds you build from these plans. Selling printed wedges or clamps, or including them with a sled you sell, needs a commercial licence: contact gaz@gazgadgets.com.