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<blockquote data-quote="Shoot Summ" data-source="post: 1869390" data-attributes="member: 1055">I will have to disagree with you on this one Don.&nbsp; A belt sander will eventually take the material off, but it will take a LONG time to remove 1/2&quot;, and make an incredible mess, even with a 60-80 grit belt.&nbsp; A well tuned hand plane will remove stock VERY fast, no dust, just lot&#039;s of pretty curlies.&nbsp; The challenge is that it is already cut to shape, leaving areas that be difficult to do with a plane, that is where the belt sander would work better.If it were me, I would build a sled to hold the piece with some sacrificial material on each side and use a thickness planer.&nbsp; The base of the sled would be MDF or particle board, use double sided tape to afix the piece to the sled, then block in around it.&nbsp; I could make the sled, and thin it down in less than an hour.I made one recently to make a Pizza Peal where it tapered the peal from 3/4&quot; to 1/4&quot; as it went through the surfacer.ETA, or you could build a jig and do it with a router...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shoot Summ, post: 1869390, member: 1055"] I will have to disagree with you on this one Don. A belt sander will eventually take the material off, but it will take a LONG time to remove 1/2", and make an incredible mess, even with a 60-80 grit belt. A well tuned hand plane will remove stock VERY fast, no dust, just lot's of pretty curlies. The challenge is that it is already cut to shape, leaving areas that be difficult to do with a plane, that is where the belt sander would work better. If it were me, I would build a sled to hold the piece with some sacrificial material on each side and use a thickness planer. The base of the sled would be MDF or particle board, use double sided tape to afix the piece to the sled, then block in around it. I could make the sled, and thin it down in less than an hour. I made one recently to make a Pizza Peal where it tapered the peal from 3/4" to 1/4" as it went through the surfacer. ETA, or you could build a jig and do it with a router... [/QUOTE]

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