Strategy for preping wide boards for tabletop
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(02-15-2017, 12:11 PM)ez-duzit Wrote: Build your table top and then take the whole glue-up to someone with a wide belt sander. If you really must plane it, rip the 14" right down the center and re-join it; you'll never notice the join.

Came here to say the same thing. I've used a local lumber-yard/millwork shop to do the same in the past.. As I recall it wasn't "cheap" - something like a $60/hr for their time on their wide-belt sander but in the end I had a 3' wide by 5' long table-top sanded perfectly flat with what amounted to no effort on my part other than hauling the thing to them and back. was well worth it
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