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Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs
By:Will
Date: 11/25/2004, 11:50 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs *LINK* *Pic* (Glen Smith)

: Maybe you saw this one.
: Glen in Baie-St-Paul.

I have seen it now. Thanks!
I've done a lot of different things with routers and I must say routing strips was difficult. Its different from routing maple or oak. And there's a lot of routing.

I like Glen's jig alot. The only thing I'd add is to make sure you got a good dust collector running to keep it cleaned out.
Springy hold down devices I found didn't work as well with the soft springy cedar as they did with harder woods. There was a tendency to push the strip into the bit or allow it to be leveraged off the bit( by the long lengths and a slight push one way or the other at the far ends of the router fenceas the fulcrum). I like Glen's set-up because it doesn't have any give to it. But you have to cut the strips the correct size.

One thing I did do that helped, is I left the coving bit on the router in the table set-up. But it was open on one side of the fence. When I got to those pieces that needed to have the cove planed off, I could hand hold the strip making a pass along the angled edge and cut a new cove (groove). When I needed a bead a few passes with the plane took care of it.

Will

Messages In This Thread

Strip: bead and cove jigs
AkDan -- 11/25/2004, 6:02 pm
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs *LINK*
Tony Olsen -- 11/27/2004, 6:49 pm
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs
AllenH -- 11/28/2004, 11:20 am
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs
AkDan -- 11/27/2004, 2:50 pm
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs
Glen Smith -- 11/27/2004, 3:04 pm
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs
Gordon Snapp -- 11/26/2004, 1:46 am
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs *LINK* *Pic*
Glen Smith -- 11/25/2004, 6:16 pm
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs
Roger Nuffer -- 11/26/2004, 5:43 pm
Re: Strip: bead and cove jigs
Will -- 11/25/2004, 11:50 pm