Better check to see if the paint is oil base. Oil may prohibit epoxy from bonding properly

To check if paint is oil base: flick off a sizable piece of paint and light it with a match. Oil base will continue to burn; latex (water base) will go out.
Good luck.

: I have enough cedar boards for another boat, but it is painted on one side.
: To remove the paint, I tried running it through a planer but it gums up
: the knives quickly and the owner's manual of the says not to do that.

: What is the quickest, cleanest, safest, easiest way to remove housepaint from
: western red cedar? Heat gun?

: Brian