KBBS Archive 40,000

Re: Bead and cove machining yields

Posted By: Andreas Albat
Date: Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 12:00 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Bead and cove machining yields (Pete Rudie)

Hi everyone,

I didn't use bead and cove, but I used my router to clean up the edges of my strips after cutting with a band saw with a straight bit. I cut quite accurately thus I had to remove only small amounts of material (<0.5mm). I fed the strips with the rotation to get a cleaner cut. With lots of feather board pressure I had not problems even with walnut strips. Disobaying the general rules, I also used the router as a planer to get uniform width and feeding with the cutter rotation. Staying behind the strip ensured that it would be shot away from me rather than at me. If you don't generate enough friction with the feather boards, it certainly becomes very dangerous.

Andreas

: One idea that I have heard from both Rob Macks and Joe Greenely is to feed
: the strips into the router table WITH the rotation of the bit rather than
: against it, which is common practice. I used this method on my current
: project and had far less splintering and other defects, on the order of
: 5%. Make liberal use of feather boards, both horizontal and vertical,
: clamped or otherwise fastened securely to the table. My shop-built feather
: boards have adjustment slots, the tables are set up with carriage bolts,
: and the nuts have big plastic wheels to allow easy one-hand adjustment and
: positive clamping.

: You are right to be picky about the strips at the front end of the project.
: If they aren't right, fairing and sanding will expose gaps that weren't
: visible at the stripping stage. Filling will take care of them, but it's
: better to have nice tight joints to start with, and that means uniform
: strips.

Messages In This Thread

Bead and cove machining yields
Dwight -- Tuesday, 30 January 2001, at 9:40 p.m.

Re: Bead and cove machining yields
Pete Rudie -- Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 3:16 a.m.

Re: Bead and cove machining yields
Malcolm Schweizer -- Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 7:34 p.m.

Re: Bead and cove machining yields
Al Gunther -- Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 8:29 p.m.

Re: Bead and cove machining yields
Andreas Albat -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 12:00 p.m.

Re: Bead and cove machining yields
Rehd -- Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 9:00 a.m.

Re: Bead and cove machining yields
John Michne -- Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 3:38 p.m.

Stop and tweak/Ripping or buying
Russ -- Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 8:02 p.m.

Re: Knots..naughty or not?
Ben Staley -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 12:54 p.m.

Ben is right again Naughty Character is good! *NM*
Russ -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 1:16 p.m.

Re: Ben is right again Naughty Character is goo
Rehd -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 8:48 p.m.

Re: Knots..naughty or not?
Dwight -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 8:44 p.m.

Re: Knots..naughty or not?
Rehd -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 8:54 p.m.

Re: User friendly Knots *Pic*
Ben Staley -- Friday, 2 February 2001, at 4:02 p.m.

Thank You For Your Advice
Dwight -- Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 10:16 p.m.

Re: Bead and cove machining yields
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 9:41 a.m.

Fence?
Bill Price -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 1:41 p.m.

router setupRe: Fence?
Joel -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 3:40 p.m.

Re: Fence?
Rehd -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 8:41 p.m.

Re: Fence?
Dwight -- Thursday, 1 February 2001, at 8:58 p.m.

Ahh! I get it! (Finally :-) Thanks. *NM*
Bill Price -- Friday, 2 February 2001, at 3:45 p.m.

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