The use of a sanding drum will yield you a thin strip of wood but you still have 2 problems to overcome.
1.How are you going to cut the strip? Bandsaw?
2.If you use a bandsaw to cut the first strip, the remaining surface on the waste stock will then have to be surfaced( or jointed) for the second rip to get a reference side that is flat enough to use against the fence.
This would be a similar situation in "flat" woodworking trying to use a thickness planer on a bowed board that has not had one face jointed.
There are those that say it can be done but it won't always work.
The solution is to cut the veneers on a Tablesaw.
Using a 7&1/4" Freud Diablo blade with a kerf thickness of .059 on a 10" Grizzly contractors saw I repeatedly cut thin "veneers" for glue ups.
There was an article in Woodturning and Design a year ago by David Reed Smith that described how to build this jig.In the article the pictures were small and I had problems understanding the design.
I ran across this link a few moths ago and it is a lot simpler to follow.
I made a variation from the original article and have been using it for almost a year.
This is not the first time I posted this link.
It was posted once before when the subject of safely cutting thin strips came up.
In that thread a member told me to go back to drinking and the entire tread was pulled.
I hope it stays up longer this time.
My thanks to David Reed Smith.
Veneer cutting with a tablesaw:
http://www.davidreedsmith.com/Articles/VacuumRipFence/VacuumRipFence.htm
1.How are you going to cut the strip? Bandsaw?
2.If you use a bandsaw to cut the first strip, the remaining surface on the waste stock will then have to be surfaced( or jointed) for the second rip to get a reference side that is flat enough to use against the fence.
This would be a similar situation in "flat" woodworking trying to use a thickness planer on a bowed board that has not had one face jointed.
There are those that say it can be done but it won't always work.
The solution is to cut the veneers on a Tablesaw.
Using a 7&1/4" Freud Diablo blade with a kerf thickness of .059 on a 10" Grizzly contractors saw I repeatedly cut thin "veneers" for glue ups.
There was an article in Woodturning and Design a year ago by David Reed Smith that described how to build this jig.In the article the pictures were small and I had problems understanding the design.
I ran across this link a few moths ago and it is a lot simpler to follow.
I made a variation from the original article and have been using it for almost a year.
This is not the first time I posted this link.
It was posted once before when the subject of safely cutting thin strips came up.
In that thread a member told me to go back to drinking and the entire tread was pulled.
I hope it stays up longer this time.
My thanks to David Reed Smith.
Veneer cutting with a tablesaw:
http://www.davidreedsmith.com/Articles/VacuumRipFence/VacuumRipFence.htm