Product Summary

SLAB FLATTENING MILL

Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill (along with your router) lets you accurately and easily flatten oddly shaped and oversized slabs right in your own shop. Since youre using a router instead of a planer-style cutterhead, tear-out is minimalthe surface will only need light sanding afterwards.

Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill starts with two aluminum extrusions. The inverted V shape of the main rail sheds sawdust and provides a solid base for the mating extrusion, which fits over the inverted V and glides on UHMW polyethylene runners. You can mount the mill to any flat and level work surface in just a few minuteseven a sheet of MDF on a simple pair of sawhorses. When youre done, the modular design stores conveniently.

The Basic Slab Flattening Mill accommodates slabs up to 38 by 57. The extra pair of 72 rails included in the Extended Slab Flattening Mill can either replace the 48 cross rails to increase width, or connect with the 72 base rails to extend length. The capacity grows to either 62 by 105 or 38 x 129.

While expanded capacity is great, youll also appreciate that the whole assembly can be condensed down to work on cutting board and end table sized projects without reaching across a vast stretch of unused space.

Using the Slab Flattening Mill is as easy as sliding your router across the slab and back, moving over a little less than the width of your cutter and repeating until youre done. It works best with a variable speed router of 2 horsepower or more. Youll get done sooner if you stick to a large diameter spoil board style bit. Weve done some of the shopping for you and offer a couple of suggested router bits. One is an economical brazed carbide bit from Whiteside. The second one, from Amana, features reversible/replaceable carbide inserts so you can always have sharp edges.

Dont put off that natural edge project youve been dreaming about any longer. Order your Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill today!

We have a very limited initial production run of this new tool that will be ready to ship in November and December. After this batch is gone, we expect shipments to resume in February of 2019.

Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill (along with your router) lets you accurately and easily flatten oddly shaped and oversized slabs right in your own shop. Since youre using a router instead of a planer-style cutterhead, tear-out is minimalthe surface will only need light sanding afterwards.

Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill starts with two aluminum extrusions. The inverted V shape of the main rail sheds sawdust and provides a solid base for the mating extrusion, which fits over the inverted V and glides on UHMW polyethylene runners. You can mount the mill to any flat and level work surface in just a few minuteseven a sheet of MDF on a simple pair of sawhorses. When youre done, the modular design stores conveniently.

The Basic Slab Flattening Mill accommodates slabs up to 38 by 57. The extra pair of 72 rails included in the Extended Slab Flattening Mill can either replace the 48 cross rails to increase width, or connect with the 72 base rails to extend length. The capacity grows to either 62 by 105 or 38 x 129.

While expanded capacity is great, youll also appreciate that the whole assembly can be condensed down to work on cutting board and end table sized projects without reaching across a vast stretch of unused space.

Using the Slab Flattening Mill is as easy as sliding your router across the slab and back, moving over a little less than the width of your cutter and repeating until youre done. It works best with a variable speed router of 2 horsepower or more. Youll get done sooner if you stick to a large diameter spoil board style bit. Weve done some of the shopping for you and offer a couple of suggested router bits. One is an economical brazed carbide bit from Whiteside. The second one, from Amana, features reversible/replaceable carbide inserts so you can always have sharp edges.

Dont put off that natural edge project youve been dreaming about any longer. Order your Woodpeckers Slab Flattening Mill today!

We have a very limited initial production run of this new tool that will be ready to ship in November and December. After this batch is gone, we expect shipments to resume in February of 2019.

The hottest trend in interior design these days is live edge slab table tops. And, why not” The natural curves of the trunk give an organic feel. The crazy grain patterns in crotches and burls are eye-catching. Even cracks that would have sent lumber to the burn pile just a few years ago are being controlled and enhanced with butterfly patches and epoxy inlays. However, slabs present some challenges in the shop. Overall width and weird grain changes make the use of a jointer and thickness planer impractical if not impossible. If you just tear into it with a belt sander you will eventually end up with something that is somewhat smooth, but not even close to flat. And who wants a table that isnt flat”