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<p>Maybe a drum sander like this ... <a
href="https://www.grizzly.com/products/Grizzly-18-1-1-2-HP-Open-End-Drum-Sander-w-VS-Feed/G0458Z">https://www.grizzly.com/products/Grizzly-18-1-1-2-HP-Open-End-Drum-Sander-w-VS-Feed/G0458Z</a>
... and appropriate infeed, side and outfeed tables to support the
door as you do each edge.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/22/19 8:26 AM, Jim Stone via
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<div class="">I am installing a barn door in my recently remodeled
house and have come up with a problem I would like the group’s
help with. I need to put up a pair of 8’ x 30" barn doors, one
of which will slide in next to a tall kitchen cabinet. So, not
exactly a pocket door, but it needs to fit into a pocket. When
we designed/installed the kitchen cabinets we planned the
cabinets for a 1 3/8” - 1 1/2” door, which I planned to make out
of tongue and groove boards or possibly shiplap. However, my
wife has lately decided that she doesn’t like the look of the
board door and wants to try something different. I wanted to
install something temporary while she shops and decides and we
went to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore yesterday to see if they
had anything that would cheaply do the trick, at least for the
holidays. To our surprise, they had a pair of new, really nice,
8x30 shaker style doors for $50 each that would look really good
in the house. They are solid wood, I think poplar, and the only
problem is that they are 1 3/4” thick. I bought them anyway,
figuring I could always donate them back if there wasn’t a good
way to make them work. </div>
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<div class="">There is a possibility that I might be able to make
the doors work by tweaking the barn door hardware, as the
opening is about 1 5/8”. I will try that, but doubt the wall
tolerances are that precise. It it doesn’t work, my only option
- besides re-donating the doors - is to try to narrow the doors
a bit. This <i class="">should</i> be possible, since the
stiles and rails are 4” and 8”, respectively, so I am not
talking about narrowing the entire width of the door. </div>
<div class="">(For what it is worth, I should add here that while
the doors are currently 8x30, I need to tweak that a bit to make
the match the cabinets and door opening and will be cutting them
down to about 84” x 29”. </div>
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<div class="">I currently have a good bench top planer that I
can’t see anyway to use, and a cheap HF hand planer that might
work. But, of course, I would be happy to buy a new one or
another tool that would do the job. We are probably looking at
more than $1000 for a pair of 8’ doors that make my wife happy,
so there is lots of room in the budget for a new tool. So, what
does the group think? Can I safely take about 1/8” off each
face of these doors. Is an electric hand planer my best option,
or is there another way? They will be painted in the end, so I
can fill in any random gouges, but they do have to be smooth and
even.</div>
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<div class="">As always, thanks for any advice and Happy Holidays
to all!</div>
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