andrew whicker
06-13-2017, 12:43 PM
Ladies and Gents,
I made a quick box for drill bits (photo below) with an easy inlay around the box as wide as my TS blade (1/8"). I used maple for the inlay.
I did get it done, but cutting a thin strip down to 1/8" x 1/8" was a bit nasty. I used a table saw. I had a two feet ish long 1/8" thick strip and fed it one way for like half of the blade showing (to keep the strip out of the blade tips in the back of the blade), rocked it up and out the way. Next, I fed it from the other side. Kind of thrilling. My hands never were beside or behind the blade and I was definitely out of projectile way, but exciting none the less. The cut quality of this cut was obviously crap. I don't have a bandsaw though.
Anyway, is there a way to make this second cut and not have such an exciting and terrible cut quality using the TS? Should I raise the blade out of the table more than an inch? Using a zero clearance plate would probably help, eh? (I was using a 40 tooth Forrest)
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I made a quick box for drill bits (photo below) with an easy inlay around the box as wide as my TS blade (1/8"). I used maple for the inlay.
I did get it done, but cutting a thin strip down to 1/8" x 1/8" was a bit nasty. I used a table saw. I had a two feet ish long 1/8" thick strip and fed it one way for like half of the blade showing (to keep the strip out of the blade tips in the back of the blade), rocked it up and out the way. Next, I fed it from the other side. Kind of thrilling. My hands never were beside or behind the blade and I was definitely out of projectile way, but exciting none the less. The cut quality of this cut was obviously crap. I don't have a bandsaw though.
Anyway, is there a way to make this second cut and not have such an exciting and terrible cut quality using the TS? Should I raise the blade out of the table more than an inch? Using a zero clearance plate would probably help, eh? (I was using a 40 tooth Forrest)
362027