How big is your planer?

Size is important when it comes to flattening and smoothing your wood.

IsGood wWoodworks has a Grizzly 20” helical head planer and a 18” wide belt sander - so what if you need bigger?

  1. Buy us a new planer/sander - warning they are not cheap ;-) But we will name the tool in your honour!

  2. We have a router sled setup that you can use but its time consuming and messy

  3. There’s a few places around the area that have wider sanders (wide planers are pretty rare but the sanders can flatten with low grit paper) or big CNCs - they charge by the hour.

How to find IsGood Woodworks

Our address is 4660 E Marginal Way S - but don’t put that address in your GPS or you will end up on one of the busiest road in Seattle with no parking.

Instead head to South Alaska St and Ohio Ave S which will bring you to the South East corner of our building.

Park along the south side, or if you have materials to unload you can temporarily park at the loading dock. Come in through the back door and IsGood Woodworks will be the first door you see when you come in.



Using the lathe at IsGood Woodworks

When you join IsGood we will take you to every machine and walk you through how it works, the right techniques to use and how to stay safe. We will demonstrate the correct usage and then ask you to repeat the action. We have a video that reinforces this teaching and we encourage members to always ask us or other members whenever they have a question. Some people learn in classes and others learn in 1 on 1 mentoring. The result is the same we consider you certified for that machine for solo use.

But then there is the lathe! Using the lathe isn’t as simple as ‘stand here’, ‘push that button’, ‘hold this here’, and other instructions. It takes a lot more time to learn all of the skills and that is not a skill that I (Andy) have.

But we have a solution! If members take an introductory lathe class at a local school we will consider you certified to use our lather as long as you come down and put the training into practice within 4 weeks of the class.

The places we recommend are:
Pratt Fine Arts Center
Port Townsend School of Woodworking
Woodcraft of Seattle

The lathe classes are often booked out and waitlisted months in advance so plan accordingly

The Seattle Woodturners Association may also be able to help you