David Fried
01-07-2006, 12:41 AM
I'm helping a friend who just bought a 1890 farmhouse. The dining room has wainscoting on three walls but it was removed from the fourth wall. They took a piece of the existing wood to the lumber yard and found pine flooring that was the same width. I was given the task of cutting it length and beading the edge.
I thought this would be really easy. I cut the boards to length and tried cutting a bead on a small off-cut. No problem.
Next I tried cutting the bead on a 34" piece. The board wasn't flat on the table at the beginning of the cut so the bead varied from zero to full over the length of the board. I also had a short wooden sub-fence on the fence. While feeding the board through, balanced on the narrow tongue, it wobbled causing the bead to vary.
Given the recent spate of router incidents reported here I decided to fix this as best I could before proceeding. I made new sub-fences out of the off-cuts from the wainscoting so they would be the same height. I dug out the hold-downs that came with the table but I had never used. I borrowed the push stick and pulled the feather board off the table saw. In addition, I use a foot switch to have both hands free. Here is the final setup.
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While this setup worked well, I think I'll pick up another hold-down when I get the chance!
The bead is just a simple 1/4" bead on the tongue side of the board.
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Here are all in the pieces lined up.
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Some of the boards have wear marks from being banded and some have knots. I have two more planks so I will make four extra boards so that they can pick and chose.
Dave Fried
I thought this would be really easy. I cut the boards to length and tried cutting a bead on a small off-cut. No problem.
Next I tried cutting the bead on a 34" piece. The board wasn't flat on the table at the beginning of the cut so the bead varied from zero to full over the length of the board. I also had a short wooden sub-fence on the fence. While feeding the board through, balanced on the narrow tongue, it wobbled causing the bead to vary.
Given the recent spate of router incidents reported here I decided to fix this as best I could before proceeding. I made new sub-fences out of the off-cuts from the wainscoting so they would be the same height. I dug out the hold-downs that came with the table but I had never used. I borrowed the push stick and pulled the feather board off the table saw. In addition, I use a foot switch to have both hands free. Here is the final setup.
29012
While this setup worked well, I think I'll pick up another hold-down when I get the chance!
The bead is just a simple 1/4" bead on the tongue side of the board.
29013
Here are all in the pieces lined up.
29014
Some of the boards have wear marks from being banded and some have knots. I have two more planks so I will make four extra boards so that they can pick and chose.
Dave Fried