There are course files made to use on wood. They are called wood rasps. Regards.
Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Rusk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Trimming a door > Perhaps a file. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: robert moore > To: Blind Handyman > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:12 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] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.0/887 - Release Date: 7/5/2007 > 1:55 PM > >
