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Sawdust Session 20:
May 24, 2008
Topics: How to
rip bevels along the length of a board, including FREE plans for an adaption of the Shopsmith Outfeed
Table that raises, lowers, and tilts with the main table. Plus how
to assemble and clamp unusual shapes, joining complex project one
half at a time, setting the thickness planer
knives, and Drew's Interludes.
To view each topic, click on the photos. |
1.
Ripping Bevels with a Tilted Table -- When ripping
a bevel on you Shopsmith, you must support two boards as
the work leaves the saw -- the upper part and the lower part.
You can adapt the Shopsmith Outfeed Table to do just that --
FREE plans. |
![](SS120_pics/SS120_Bevel_140.jpg) |
2. Clamping Oddly Shaped Assemblies --
Assembling the diamond-shaped shadow box that we introduced in
Sawdust Session #19 presents an entire series of clamping
challenges -- but nothing we couldn't handle |
![](SS120_pics/SS120_Clamping_140.jpg) |
3.
Joining Mitered Assemblies
-- When putting together a complex frame where all the
parts have to mate perfectly, it sometimes helps to assemble one
half at a time. |
![](SS120_pics/Assembly2_140.jpg) |
4. Setting
Planer Knives -- Changing and setting the knives in
the Thickness Planer is surprisingly simple and straightforward
once you know a few secrets. |
![](SS120_pics/SS120_Planer_140.jpg) |
Drew's Interludes:
1. Cleaning Your Clamps --
An easy way to peel the dried glue
from metal clamps, and an even easier method of keeping the glue
from sticking in the first place.
2. Case Hardening in Wood -- A
little-known property of wood, how it can effect glue-ups, and how
to keep it from doing so. |
![](SS120_pics/Removing_Glue_140.jpg) |
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