(December 15, 2025 at 11:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 15, 2025 at 10:20 am)Fireball Wrote: I'm going to bust out the drum sander this morning. That should make short work of it. Lots of dust, so it's getting done outside. Also, it would appear that I'm sensitized to oak. Going to have to cover up and use controls to minimize the dust from now on.
That’s unusual. Most sensitive reactions come from exotic woods - padauk, ipe, wenge, and suchlike. I’ll never work wenge again without a hazmat suit.
Regarding your project, I’ve know people to make edge banding with a thickness planer. Seems horrifically wasteful.
Boru
Maybe it's just dust in general. Wenge I can handle, but for the splinters. I had a bad case of dermatitis and runny nose from a project I made out of bloodwood. Never again.
I can't imagine planing to get edge banding. I wouldn't want to run anything that thin through. I get enough snipe as it is. It's a benchtop job. I only need about 15 feet, so I decided to use one of the leftover boards instead of splurging on a 500 foot roll.
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