Flawless Cowboy
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...okay well, only kind of, but it is using Festool product:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o68D75zlSk8
I have a project coming up where I will be laminating 1/2" strips of 1/2" plywood so that the end grain is showing for the face of the panel. I did a quick trial tonight of cutting the strips using a TS75 and the thin strip strip jig that goes with the Seneca parallel guides.
They worked not bad, but there was a variance of 30/100ths of an inch or so throughout the strips, almost forming a taper. Clearly, I didn't have them set up right, but in the absence of setup blocks (either purchased or shop-made), it is the best I could get.
For the next test, I will be using the cabinet saw and making one of those ball-bearing thin strip jigamabobs to cut the strips. I expect much better results there.
However, I rigged up my OF1400 router as a thickness planer to plane the strips down to the appropriate thickness. It worked quite well - the variance was down to about 3/1000ths of an inch across the strips after planing. I am sure I could modify the jig to get that down even more.
I apologize for not actually demonstrating the planing of a strip in the video. In my excitement of it working, I planed all the strips I had cut.
Would running the strips through a thickness planer be a big no-no, or just really hard on the knives?
My other thought is that a cabinet scraper could do well to level the sheet after the glue-up. I only have the card types, but am lusting after the Veritas Cabinet Scraper.
-Nate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o68D75zlSk8
I have a project coming up where I will be laminating 1/2" strips of 1/2" plywood so that the end grain is showing for the face of the panel. I did a quick trial tonight of cutting the strips using a TS75 and the thin strip strip jig that goes with the Seneca parallel guides.
They worked not bad, but there was a variance of 30/100ths of an inch or so throughout the strips, almost forming a taper. Clearly, I didn't have them set up right, but in the absence of setup blocks (either purchased or shop-made), it is the best I could get.
For the next test, I will be using the cabinet saw and making one of those ball-bearing thin strip jigamabobs to cut the strips. I expect much better results there.
However, I rigged up my OF1400 router as a thickness planer to plane the strips down to the appropriate thickness. It worked quite well - the variance was down to about 3/1000ths of an inch across the strips after planing. I am sure I could modify the jig to get that down even more.
I apologize for not actually demonstrating the planing of a strip in the video. In my excitement of it working, I planed all the strips I had cut.
Would running the strips through a thickness planer be a big no-no, or just really hard on the knives?
My other thought is that a cabinet scraper could do well to level the sheet after the glue-up. I only have the card types, but am lusting after the Veritas Cabinet Scraper.
-Nate
