I am working on a bent lamination using soft maple. I resawed on the bandsaw at a fat 1/8 inch and needed to plane to just under 1/8 of an inch. I put some new blades in my Dewalt 735. Unfortunately I had a hard time to get to an even 1/8 on the boards - the soft maple grain was up and down and I was getting tear out and the sickening feeling when you hear that board getting chewed up. I do not have a wide belt sander. I tossed together the Brian Boggs vacuum box in a half an hour with particle board, glue, and pin nails, and it did the trick.

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