Hi. I live next to a commercial wood shop that has lots of free scrap in the form of cut off strips. Every board that goes in the door is striped on a table saw to square up the edges. These strips are of un-even thickness. I would like to plane the rough side and use this scrap to make sellable products.
Is it a workable idea??? to buy a citizen quality planer and run a stack of un-even thickness strips through the planer, resulting in even thickness semi finished strips?
How I imagine it is that the feed rollers can self adjust to deal with the variable thickness, while the planer takes the minimum bite at the set thickness level.
In general the strips are from 3/4 to 2 inches wide and are made up of a mix of recycled fur, new popular and some nice wood (about once a month).
thanks in advance
marty