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Re: Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting
By:Randy Echtinaw
Date: 5/29/2012, 9:18 pm
In Response To: Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting (Douglas Lee)

: Hello,
: I have a Veritas router table with a Porter Cable router (no micro
: adjustment), I dedicated this for bead cutting and locked it in.
: Just assembled a Bosch table router using again another Porter
: Cable with no micro adjustment. dedicating this one for coves.
: I tried every which way to tandem cut the strips but can not set it
: up so that the bit will cut counter clockwise into the strip
: for the bead and cove. One bit will cut counter clockwise but the
: other cuts clockwise into the strip.
: How do you all set them up to cut counter clockwise to the feed
: direction on both bead and cove?

: Thanks,
: Douglas

For what it's worth - I am an experienced wood worker - airplane builder - contractor - CAD designer - - I spent most of last winter working on a dual trim router setup to cut bead and cove at once. One router on top of table one upside down below. One set in place permanent the other micro adjustable laterally for different width strips. I had guides, hold down fingers, slippery tape in the grooves to slide the wood easily. Early this spring I took it apart and burned it in my wood stove and figured I had wasted a lot of time. I bought a couple of very small, handy wood planes and now plane all my strips. MUCH MUCH easier than cove and bead and fit is better.
No way saying it cannot be done but if you come up with a design that works and is consistently repeatable you will make a lot of friends on this forum :)

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Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting
Douglas Lee -- 5/25/2012, 9:04 pm
Re: Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting
ancient kayaker -- 5/25/2012, 11:27 pm
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Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 12:40 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/25/2012, 11:38 pm
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Donovan -- 5/25/2012, 11:58 pm
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Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 12:48 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/26/2012, 1:31 am
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Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 9:39 pm
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Donovan -- 5/26/2012, 1:47 pm
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Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 12:10 pm
Re: Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 5/26/2012, 3:35 am
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Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 9:58 am
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Etienne Muller -- 5/27/2012, 2:49 am
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Douglas Lee -- 5/28/2012, 1:43 pm
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scottbaxter -- 5/26/2012, 8:31 am
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Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 10:14 am
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 5/26/2012, 11:15 am
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Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 11:53 am
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Don T -- 5/26/2012, 4:29 pm
Re: Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting
Douglas Lee -- 5/26/2012, 9:20 pm
Re: Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting
Randy Echtinaw -- 5/29/2012, 9:18 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 5/30/2012, 6:42 am
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Douglas Lee -- 5/30/2012, 3:35 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 5/30/2012, 5:33 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 5/30/2012, 6:11 pm
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Douglas Lee -- 5/30/2012, 11:45 pm
Re: Tools: tandem bead & cove cutting
Dan Caouette -- 5/30/2012, 10:06 pm