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Re: Strip: cove and bead router bits
By:Gero Verheyen
Date: 10/14/2014, 11:38 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: cove and bead router bits (Mochaboy)

You have two options here. If you tilt the blade 7 degrees, you will end up with parallel bevels on each side of the strip, and one will be angled the wrong way. I would suggest ripping your strips at 90 degrees and then tilting the blade so that you're just beveling one side and leaving the other straight.

I'm not sure what sort of saw you're working with, but if you have a table extension on the inboard side of the blade, you could mount a router underneath and, using your rip fence with a sacrificial piece of plywood, cut the bevel with a 7 degree dovetail router bit - again, just beveling one side.

If you have a way of jointing the boards before you start ripping them, that will be a huge help. You'll want at least one wide face to be flat and one long edge to be straight and perpendicular to the flat face.

Hope this helps.

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Strip: cove and bead router bits
Marc -- 10/12/2014, 8:05 am
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Clayton Weed -- 10/12/2014, 10:12 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/12/2014, 10:32 am
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Ric Allen -- 10/12/2014, 10:53 am
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Ken Blanton -- 10/12/2014, 3:16 pm
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Mochaboy -- 10/14/2014, 10:32 am
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/14/2014, 11:38 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2014, 1:20 pm
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Mochaboy -- 10/14/2014, 2:04 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/14/2014, 2:16 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2014, 2:56 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2014, 3:04 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2014, 4:40 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/14/2014, 5:07 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2014, 5:13 pm
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Gero Verheyen -- 10/14/2014, 5:23 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2014, 5:55 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2014, 6:02 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2014, 6:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2014, 5:57 pm
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Ian Cummins -- 10/14/2014, 5:54 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2014, 6:04 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/14/2014, 6:27 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/15/2014, 12:43 am
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Ken Blanton -- 10/14/2014, 7:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2014, 8:24 pm
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Ken Blanton -- 10/14/2014, 6:12 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/14/2014, 8:26 pm
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scottbaxter -- 10/12/2014, 4:22 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/12/2014, 4:44 pm