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Re: Ripping my strips
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 6/23/2000, 10:25 pm
In Response To: Ripping my strips (John Danley)

I didn't use cove-and-bead and am not familiar with a resaw blade, but since you're starting in tomorrow, I thougth I'd better respond as best I could given what I've gleaned from this bulletin board. Consistent strip thickness is key to getting good coves and beads. If you can get good a reasonably smooth cut surface and maintain table-saw-like thickness consistency, you should be O.K. You'll just have to cut a few strips, set up the router to put in the cove since it's the more difficult part, run a few through, and see whether you can maintain the thin edge of the cove. Set it up so that the cove is slightly narrower than the strip thickness so that there is a tiny flat left on either side. If it's knife-edged, it's more likely to get broken during handling.

But most likely this consistency will be tough to maintain with a bandsaw and you will have to cut a bit oversize and thickness-plane both sides. I used a bandsaw for my strips and they varied quite a bit -- maybe +1/8 / -1/16 on 1/4". I didn't have a router or shaper, so I planned to hand-bevel the strips anyway.

Hope this helped a little,

Dean

Messages In This Thread

Ripping my strips
John Danley -- 6/23/2000, 9:24 pm
I finished the ripping and bead and cove.
John Danley -- 6/24/2000, 2:16 pm
Re: I finished the ripping and bead and cove.
Ken -- 6/30/2000, 12:47 am
Re: I finished the ripping and bead and cove. *Pic*
John Danley -- 6/30/2000, 8:35 am
Re: I finished the ripping and bead and cove.
Rehd -- 6/30/2000, 1:31 am
Re: Ripping my strips
Ray Port Angeles -- 6/24/2000, 12:08 pm
Re: Ripping my strips
RM Dalton -- 6/24/2000, 11:45 am
Re: Ripping my strips
John Danley -- 6/24/2000, 12:36 pm
Re: Ripping my strips
Dean Trexel -- 6/23/2000, 10:25 pm
Re: Ripping my strips
John Danley -- 6/24/2000, 7:41 am