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Re: Strip cutting adventures...
By:Bill Light
Date: 2/8/2000, 5:35 pm
In Response To: Strip cutting adventures... (Hank)

> I made several feather boards and found them useful for cutting the
> perfectly flat wood - should be great when routing the beads & coves.
> The wood that had a bit of a twist was cut without the feather boards by
> keeping the cut surface tight to the fence by hand. The free hand cutting
> went well and eliminated to reset feather boards for each time.

I solved the "reset feather boards each time problem" by pivitoting the feather board to an infeed extension and attaching a bucket of water using a line through screw eyes to the feather board by way of the extended fence. The only problem happens at the end cut of the board but a clamp "stop" works fine there.. figure it will work even better with the milling of the strips..

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Strip cutting adventures...
Hank -- 2/8/2000, 11:25 am
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Walter H. Klaus -- 2/14/2000, 8:43 am
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Simon -- 2/9/2000, 3:09 am
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Jerry -- 2/10/2000, 1:07 am
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Earl Bailey -- 2/9/2000, 3:55 pm
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Paul Lund -- 2/9/2000, 9:18 am
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Hank -- 2/9/2000, 8:12 am
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Spidey -- 2/9/2000, 3:30 am
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Spidey -- 2/8/2000, 11:00 pm
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Earl Bailey -- 2/9/2000, 3:50 pm
Re: Strip cutting adventures...
Bill Light -- 2/8/2000, 5:35 pm
Re: Strip cutting adventures...
Hank -- 2/8/2000, 9:11 pm
Re: Strip cutting adventures...
Jim McCool -- 2/8/2000, 1:55 pm