If you only have to remove 1/64 of an inch, use sandpaper with a sanding block. It shouldn't take to long and you will have a nicer looking job.
----- Original Message ----- From: robert moore To: Blind Handyman Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 17:12 Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Trimming a door The door to my office will not shut. The house I live in is old and is literally leaning to the West. If I hold a piece of string with a weight on it from the top corner of the door, the weight is off to one side at least a half an inch. So what I want to do is to trim the top of the door so it will close. I think I literally only need to trim less than about a 64th of an inch or so. I do not have a plane and at this point I don't know if I want to buy one just for this project unless the price is wright. What I do have is a hand held jig saw. I hope I can describe what I am thinking about doing. Since I am taking off so little material I wonder if it would work if I approached it with the cutting edge of the blade at an angle tward the wood and the back of the blade away from the wood and dragged the saw backward. This way I would essentially be aggressively sanding the wood off the top of the dorr. I am not sure I want to try to trim it running the blade forward because I think I would end up just gougeing it and making a reall mess of things. It does not have to be perfect but I don't want to tare up the door too badlye. Any other ideas? Back to the use of a plane. If I was to get a hand held plane wide enough to do the job with one pass how cheepley can I find one. I don't even need a very good one because the work will not be vissable and I don't really see my self using it all that often. Robert [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
