Project — "Making a Silver Chest"
Last week, I showed how Jessica divided the piece into what will be three resawn boards of equal thickness. |
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I also showed how she used my trick to use a razor blade to accurately set the guide rail to the one-third mark. |
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When I first reviewed and used the MFT 1080, I came up with a way to make repetitive rip cuts of equal widths. This was my way of answering the request for "ripping cuts the same as when using the table saw and fence." Here is where that story is - click here. |
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But having a lot of time to think the
problem over, I came up with a very simple solution — I don't know what to
call it so I will just show it to you.
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With the boom keeping the vacuum hose and power cord out of the way, Jessica returns the TS 75 to its storage position on top of the Systainer. |
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She continues ripping these pieces the same width as the guide rail. These MDF strips will become "furniture". That is the term in printing language for blocks of wood that were used to hold lead type in place in a chase. (I was a "printers devil" during college days.) |
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By the way, Jessica is using the combination blade that came with the saw for these MDF cuts. It works quite well even for this man-made composite material. |
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If you have forgotten why we want to go to this effort, it is for resawing the planks so that we will be able to "butterfly" or "book-match" them when we glue up the panels. There is not a great, striking grain to these boards but you can still see the effect of orienting the grain as we are. |
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Jessica lines up the boards and marks them so that she can more easily orient them when it is time to cut them to lengths. |
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