Jig for Staves

[John Terefenko]

Being I am not allowed to put this in 2 different forums here I chose this one because maybe some segmenters will see it. I am trying to make small compound cut staves. I have included some photos as to what I am talking about. In the photo the staves are 3" in length. I want to make them even smaller. I cut these on my tablesaw but was not happy with the setup because of inaccuracy and most of all safety. I was wondering if anyone has some suggestions and maybe some photos of a jig that I can try so to make them safely??? Also is there some formula to figure the angles out??? These were trial and error type thing. The compound cutting is the tricky part here also. Thanks ahead of time for the responses and have a great day.

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[Robert McGowen]

Malcolm Tibbetts' book, The Art of Segmented Wood Turning, has directions for building a sled for a table saw and the sled is used to cut the staves. There is a chart in the back of the book that shows the miter angle and the blade angle needed to cut the staves. You just need to know the slope and the number of staves that you want. The book is well worth the money. (No financial connection, just own the book.)

If you know what the slope is and the number of staves for one particular project, I can post the angles you need.

[John Terefenko]

No one has any jigs to show??? I will check Malcolm's book out.

[Richard Madison]

Ok John. I was expecting pictures of some fancy-**s jigs, but since none have appeared, here are a couple of my crude but effective sleds. When Robert saw them I think he was shocked and appalled. I use an 80-tooth Freud blade (not shown), and two wood scraps screwed onto the sled to clamp the wood on one or both sides of the saw cut. If the saw cuts are imperfect I touch them up on a 6x48 belt sander, glue up to half "bowls", and sand the mating surfaces flat on a 15-3/4" sanding disc mounted on the lathe. All of my ribbon forms were made using this exotic equipment.

Both these sleds were recycled from previous "design" sleds that were no longer in use.

[Robert McGowen]

here are a couple of my crude but effective sleds.

Great...... now that the secret is out, all we will see are threads containing Segmented Paralleloroids and Toroids with Knots and those types of turnings. Guess I'm going to turn something else now.... :D:D:D:D