: Hi there Steve.
: I don't know how much wood working you have done, but I saw the price of
: pre cut wood & I had a cow!
: However...
: I am a "Minimalist"...

Put me in Dave's camp. I am frugal (cheap). Not you Dave. Anyway I built my first stripper around 2000 and the wr cedar and pine cost around $35 on sale at Menards. I had to do lots of sorting through piles of lumber to get the best pieces. I bought 8,10 & 12 foot length of different widths. I did the same thing on my second stripper around 2004 in the range of $50. These prices are in my post back then. I bought kiln-dried hardwoods at a local mill for 50 cents a pound.

I had lots of wood working experience but not much with a plane for beveling so I made the jig in the picture, which took all the craftsmanship out of it. The set up in the picture put on a 4-degree bevel, which was used on most strips. But by putting a small strip in the grove and jacking up the strip being beveled I could make a sharper bevel. Also by adding a loose fence next to the permanent fence I could make different bevels and in all I could make four different ones. I use a little finger plane for the rolling end bevels you sometimes encounter at the very ends. Anyway this was almost like cheating.

John