glenn bradley
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I am surprised how much I got done on this thing today. I am actually ahead of my own expectations which is an oh-so-rare occurrence.
I find a shoulder plane is not just for shoulders. It works well for cleaning up milling marks on narrow surfaces.
I picked up a De Walt dado set when Amazon had one of those price-so-low-it-has-to-be-a-mistake things. Surprise, surprise; it showed up. The fit is good as I didn't even have to adjust the cartridge from my setup used for the Freud set. I figured this is as good a time to break it in as any.
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It even makes a nice fit in the throat plate without any fiddling.
I get a lot of use out of this shop-made depth gauge. I built it to do height and fence depth and it comes in handy quite a bit.
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I use my little Colt with a flush trim bit for the sake of speed when trimming back the purposeful overhang on the narrow stile to wide stile joint. The assembly provides some odd clamping but, a milled piece of scrap settles that. The strip clamped to the back is to make things a little more rigid. If the narrow stile was any narrower I would clamp a piece of scrap along it to create a wider surface to ride the router on. As it is, it is just inside my comfort zone.
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Once the overhang is trimmed flush, a little scraper work makes the joint more or less disappear into the figure . . . at least that's the idea.
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cont'd . . .
I find a shoulder plane is not just for shoulders. It works well for cleaning up milling marks on narrow surfaces.
I picked up a De Walt dado set when Amazon had one of those price-so-low-it-has-to-be-a-mistake things. Surprise, surprise; it showed up. The fit is good as I didn't even have to adjust the cartridge from my setup used for the Freud set. I figured this is as good a time to break it in as any.
.
It even makes a nice fit in the throat plate without any fiddling.
I get a lot of use out of this shop-made depth gauge. I built it to do height and fence depth and it comes in handy quite a bit.
.
I use my little Colt with a flush trim bit for the sake of speed when trimming back the purposeful overhang on the narrow stile to wide stile joint. The assembly provides some odd clamping but, a milled piece of scrap settles that. The strip clamped to the back is to make things a little more rigid. If the narrow stile was any narrower I would clamp a piece of scrap along it to create a wider surface to ride the router on. As it is, it is just inside my comfort zone.
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Once the overhang is trimmed flush, a little scraper work makes the joint more or less disappear into the figure . . . at least that's the idea.
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cont'd . . .
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