How about you spend a few dollars on some really coarse aggressive sand paper, 40 grit or 60 grit and a good block. I have a rather nice plastic one here with a handle on it about 8 by 3 inches. You could clamp a straight edge to gauge your progress and have at it until you get close then go to finer paper.
You could use a plane and that is the right tool for the job, a decent block plane would be adequate but a longer one would be better. I just had a look at Canadian Tire, they have one for 30 bucks. A belt sander would do the job in good time and you could rent one of those probably for 10 bucks from a tool rental company plus a couple of belts, think they run about three bucks a belt but I don't know for sure. If you are going to plane it, take care to plane the corner at the edge where the plane stroke will finish off to a bevel, that is, knock the corner carefully off at an angle so the plane doesn't tear out at the edge. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: robert moore To: Blind Handyman Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:12 PM 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]
