A few questions:
1 - can you walk through the process for cutting a tenon - particularly how the wood is held vertically, square, etc?
2 - John shows a "toothed joint" on the site / video. How is he indexing for cutting the teeth? Simple shims removed?
3 - related to above - what about an incra track that could allow shifting the cut by a consistent amount across a board, like when making a jewelry tray divider?
4 - Walk through the adjustable stops on the angle adjustment - which are fixed, which are adjustable?
5 - What is depth of cut at 45 degrees?
6 - What is the preferred method for setting angles with the fence? Blade tilt has a scale. But i don't recall seeing a miter angle.
7 - how long to change a blade?
8 - Can you give us a smoothness readout when you cut both soft woods like pine or basswood and hardwoods like Ipe or hard maple?
9 - repeatability - iike cutting a 1/4 inch groove in a 3/4 piece repeated on both ends for splined miters times several pieces - how to set up for consistency?
10 - what is the saw drag and number of strokes when cutting a 5 inch wide piece that may be 3/4 thick?
11 - setting depth of cut - as in wanting to cut a dovetail to a scribeed line
A few joint / cut ideas:
- splined miter
- half lap miter
- half lap joint
- constructing a 4 x 4 jewelry box divider with 4 or so dividers equally spaced
- 1/8 dados across 1/4 x 3/4 stock
- repeatable length cuts as in making matching sides of a picture frame
- compound miter cuts, as in a six sided cut with a 25 degree angle up to make a base to a turned vase
I'm sure you have many more, but these were a few ideas.
Have a good trip and take lots of photos / videos as possible.
neil
1 - can you walk through the process for cutting a tenon - particularly how the wood is held vertically, square, etc?
2 - John shows a "toothed joint" on the site / video. How is he indexing for cutting the teeth? Simple shims removed?
3 - related to above - what about an incra track that could allow shifting the cut by a consistent amount across a board, like when making a jewelry tray divider?
4 - Walk through the adjustable stops on the angle adjustment - which are fixed, which are adjustable?
5 - What is depth of cut at 45 degrees?
6 - What is the preferred method for setting angles with the fence? Blade tilt has a scale. But i don't recall seeing a miter angle.
7 - how long to change a blade?
8 - Can you give us a smoothness readout when you cut both soft woods like pine or basswood and hardwoods like Ipe or hard maple?
9 - repeatability - iike cutting a 1/4 inch groove in a 3/4 piece repeated on both ends for splined miters times several pieces - how to set up for consistency?
10 - what is the saw drag and number of strokes when cutting a 5 inch wide piece that may be 3/4 thick?
11 - setting depth of cut - as in wanting to cut a dovetail to a scribeed line
A few joint / cut ideas:
- splined miter
- half lap miter
- half lap joint
- constructing a 4 x 4 jewelry box divider with 4 or so dividers equally spaced
- 1/8 dados across 1/4 x 3/4 stock
- repeatable length cuts as in making matching sides of a picture frame
- compound miter cuts, as in a six sided cut with a 25 degree angle up to make a base to a turned vase
I'm sure you have many more, but these were a few ideas.
Have a good trip and take lots of photos / videos as possible.
neil
