View Single Post
  #7  
Old 07-10-2018, 02:39 PM
sblack sblack is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Montreal
Posts: 382
Default

John Glover said something wise that I did not pick up on at first, but if you shape a panel to a perfect fit but it is a bag of walnuts, i.e. lumpy, by the time you planish it likely it won't fit. You need to converge on fit and smoothness at the same time, so the closer you get to a fit, the closer you need to be to the final finish. If not, the final stage of finishing will mess up the fit.

If you are planishing you are very slightly stretching or shrinking. Could be either one. It's not like planishing and shaping are different things. You will be changing the area of the panel very slightly. It is a question of degree.
__________________
Scott in Montreal
Reply With Quote