The Fantastic TS75

[Warrior]

Hey all,
I started a thread in how to regarding cutting of long miters which ended in the discussion of fixing the saw to cut bevel cut exactly on the rubber dge of the guide rail.
I will show my set-up in the cutting of some 18' miters for some Mahogany columns.
I have on site 2 jumbo MFTs with an extension added to one of them.

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[Warrior]

Glue up of some 12' miters
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No we are not using the 2P10 for these. That's Henry getting the gorilla glue on one side of the joint afte wiping down both with a wet rag.
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Clamping Jig
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He is always losing pencils.
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The polyurethane glue starting to foam up.

 

[Warrior]

Splice used to make 18' stock.
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[Brice Burrell]

Splice used to make 18' stock.
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Can you show us how you made the splice?

 

[Tinker]

Are you able to set the bevel angle on your TS correctly the first try?

I have the ATF and the dial is so small and marks so tiny, i have to go thru several trial & error setups and cuts before i get it exact.  That is the one complaint i have with my ATF.  The new TS's look much better to me, but I have not had ocassion to try bevel cutting with one.
Tinker

PS That is one fine job.  I certainly would not want to try that long a bevel cut alone with a table saw.

 

[Eli]

Looks great Eiji. Looking forward to following this project.

 

[Warrior]

Brice,
The splice was done first on two boards then glued up to form the V joint. The joints are reinforced with dominoes spaced about 3" apart. The panel in the pic is 16" wide and each leg of that V is 28" long. I used about 21' of stock to make 16's into 18's.

 

[Brice Burrell]

Eiji, how did you make the inside v cut on the splice. The out side could be done with two 45 degree miters cut with the TS75 or chop saw. But the inside, what tool did you use?

By the way, very nice work! And can we get a shot of the finished product?

 

[Warrior]

Brice,
I'm sorry.
I didnt explain it very well.
the V is formed by glueing two spliced boards together with the splice joint angle radiating out.
the point of the V is at the glue line.

 

[James Metcalf]

You did such a good job of grain matching, that it looks like two boards in the picture of the splice, not four boards at the splice. Nice!

 

[Warrior]

Tinker,

As far as the bevel angle of the saw goes. I was very anal about it at first. I set the stop to cut at exactly 45deg. checking with two beveled pieces making sure they would form a 90 deg corner.
After glueing up a couple of beams I found that even though the bevels were exact some of the joints weren't 90 deg. after the clamps came off.
I now rely on the clamping jig to ensure perfect 90's and cut the bevels a little past 45 deg. some where between 45.25 and 45.5 deg. That also ensures the miter joint at its point is super tight.

Eiji Fuller

 

[Warrior]

James,

I am working with 3000 BF of quartersawn Kia and I was able to pick out quite a few bookmatched boards for glue ups. The splice was also endmatched.

Eiji

 

[James Metcalf]

Nice wood.

 

[Dixon Peer]

Nice job Eiji.  Want to come to New Jersey and trim with us?  ;D

 

[Warrior]

Thanks,
I like it here in San Diego for now. The only place I would like to relocate to is Northern CA as the weather and scenery suits me better up there.

 

[Dixon Peer]

Oh, I'd say the weather and scenery is much better in Northern California...anyplace from San Francisco north.  Certainly it's better than what we have had in New Jersey for the past week; high humidity with August temps. 

 

[Eli]

San Diego is great. My cousin lives on Coronado and my uncle out in scripps ranch.

 

[Warrior]

Here are some ext. columns and beam at the entry.
The bases of the columns will be stone.
The doors are temp. doors. I will post some pics of those when they get rehung.

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[Eli]

That's coming along great Eiji. That'll be fantastic. Can we get a close up of the corner of the door/ butt joint above it?

 

[The Dude]

Eiji F!!! 

A huge Achtung Dude! to you.  You need a Festool Junkie Hat for that little project!  Exceptional work!

Timmy C