Parallel Guides and Extensions Application

[iamnothim]

I purchased the Parallel Guides and Extensions to help cut sheet goods for cabinets.  They worked great but took some time and effort to calibrate and understand how the system works.  So at this point they haven't been a time saver ...yet.    They produced extremely accurately cuts replicating sheet pieces.

I am posting is to share another use.  This may not be news to guys that have them but at the risk of replicating a post here goes.

I do not own a table saw..... still chewing on that one.  I wanted to cut some thin (4mm) strips of Honduras rosewood to face the plywood shelves in the cabinets.  Hummmm.

Here's what I did.  I cut some 3/4" MDF to 36" width to match the length of the rosewood.  (4/4 x 8" x 36")  Next I domino'd the rosewood to the plywood and used the parallel guides with extensions to cut perfect 4mm strips.  I was pleased.  Hope this helps  [smile]

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[nclemmons]

Cool simple idea!

So a couple of dominos over the 36" length?  No issue with the rosewood pulling away from the MDF?

thanks for sharing

neil

 

[iamnothim]

Cool simple idea!

So a couple of dominos over the 36" length?  No issue with the rosewood pulling away from the MDF?

thanks for sharing

neil

I think I used four 5mm dominos at 20mm depth per side.  No glue.  The board was at least 36" may have been over 40"
If you are going to cut a lot more you will need to glue it up because my TS55REQ got a little sketchy as the rosewood got narrower.

Here's another cool thing.  I forget the term used to described hardwood lumber with 2 planed sides and one good long edge.
Using this method You can true-up the remaining side of the lumber to have two clean parallel sides.

 

[adugas]

Hi,
I have a project coming up, this will help quite a bit.  Just curious how much trim you got off the full stock and what was left for "waste".
Again thx for posting,  prefect timing.
Cheers
Aaron

 

[nclemmons]

I forget the term used to described hardwood lumber with 2 planed sides and one good long edge.
Using this method You can true-up the remaining side of the lumber to have two clean parallel sides.

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Maybe S2S with a straight line rip one edge?

Or

S3S - which stands for surfaced three sides, literally S2S and SLR1E

 

[iamnothim]

Hi,
I have a project coming up, this will help quite a bit.  Just curious how much trim you got off the full stock and what was left for "waste".
Again thx for posting,  prefect timing.
Cheers
Aaron

Pretty much what you see in the photo.  I cut all I needed and that's what was left.  So add six times 2.5mm for blade width to get a visual of the starting stock.

  I see no problem taking it all the way down to the 20mm domino  depth as long as you glue it.  It doesn't know the difference between the MDF and the rosewood  [big grin]

 

[iamnothim]

I forget the term used to described hardwood lumber with 2 planed sides and one good long edge.
Using this method You can true-up the remaining side of the lumber to have two clean parallel sides.

------------------------------
Maybe S2S with a straight line rip one edge?

Or

S3S - which stands for surfaced three sides, literally S2S and SLR1E

Yup.  It's S2S  So a 4/4 becomes a 3/4 but you pay for a 4/4 and it has one good edge.
Thanks

 

[iamnothim]

Just had another thought.....

I think.... if you screwed a couple cleats on the underside to secure the MDF to the hardwood you could skip the glue and save a lot of time waiting for it to dry.

Overall your waste should only be a 20mm strip on the hardwood side and 20mm strip on the MDF side.  At least if you use 5mm x 40mm dominos.

 

[duburban]

pocket screws

 

[iamnothim]

pocket screws

Excellent !

 

[Bob Wolfe]

If you were using the whole piece of solid wood for strips, you can glue them together or saw away the glue line when done with strips

 

[Mickfb]

What a simple idea. I used my parallel guides for the first time yesterday, like you say they take a while to set up. I cut some 6mm MDF up with them and they were very accurate, I think this could be another nail in the coffin for my small table saw.
I have got to machine some staff bead soon so I may try your idea out.

 

[Hud]

Good idea, should work for cutting lamination strips rather than using the table saw and a whole lot safer.

 

[roblg3]

I think i'm missing it.  Couldn't you cut those strips on the extension side of the parallel guides?

 

[iamnothim]

I think i'm missing it.  Couldn't you cut those strips on the extension side of the parallel guides?

Maybe....
I had to watch this video to learn how to use the dang things.  At 8:00 minutes in you'll see how the extensions are used to cut thin strips.  I've only used the rig a handful of times and that's how I cut the strips.  Without attaching the narrow hardwood to MDF or ply of the same width the guide rail will not work / support the narrow material.

Hope that's your answer..