jonathan snyder
09-11-2006, 2:40 AM
Hi folks,
I am working on a muprhy bed, which is mostly plywood construction. I opted for solid wood edge banding. As my banding is only 1/4" thick, I cant use biscuts for alingment. I tried using a caul to glue up the banding, but alinging the banding and the caul proved to be too much, so I came up with this idea. Perhaps some you you have already thought of this, but i have not seen it, so I thought I would post it.
I made a caul about 1 1/4" thick, tapered on the jointer, and routed a groove the width of the edge banding and half as deep as the banding is thick.
46648
The caul holds the banding in place and I only have to worry about alinging the banding, not the banding & the caul.
Here it is clamped up. I left both edges of the banding proud and plane it down after the glue dries.
46649
Hope this helps to make somebodys project go a little bit smoother.
Jonathan
I am working on a muprhy bed, which is mostly plywood construction. I opted for solid wood edge banding. As my banding is only 1/4" thick, I cant use biscuts for alingment. I tried using a caul to glue up the banding, but alinging the banding and the caul proved to be too much, so I came up with this idea. Perhaps some you you have already thought of this, but i have not seen it, so I thought I would post it.
I made a caul about 1 1/4" thick, tapered on the jointer, and routed a groove the width of the edge banding and half as deep as the banding is thick.
46648
The caul holds the banding in place and I only have to worry about alinging the banding, not the banding & the caul.
Here it is clamped up. I left both edges of the banding proud and plane it down after the glue dries.
46649
Hope this helps to make somebodys project go a little bit smoother.
Jonathan