Gary Herrmann
01-27-2007, 7:44 PM
I'm making a box for my wife to put various odds and ends in on her makeup table. Bloodwood and yellowheart. Decided to dovetail the bloodwood sides, which we bought specially for this project on sale last year.
Never having worked bloodwood before, I was not happy at the tearout (especially on the board edges) I got using my Leigh jig and router.
I was using a 1/4" piece of ply in front of the bloodwood and had a backer board and still got tearout. I also followed the recomendations in the tips section of the Leigh manual. Argh.
I know it's got a really high specific gravity. Is the tearout normal? I'm not sure what I could have done to avoid the tearout.
Aggravated and having a beer...
Never having worked bloodwood before, I was not happy at the tearout (especially on the board edges) I got using my Leigh jig and router.
I was using a 1/4" piece of ply in front of the bloodwood and had a backer board and still got tearout. I also followed the recomendations in the tips section of the Leigh manual. Argh.
I know it's got a really high specific gravity. Is the tearout normal? I'm not sure what I could have done to avoid the tearout.
Aggravated and having a beer...