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Gotta agree with the crowd, bought he tree.
My fav too, First run with the acrylic resin and I love that stuff. Dried hard, good open time, and water clear.
Interesting... never tried the Incra LS.
I've only tried full and HB dovetails but it has capabilities. Really it is just some alternate positioning tape inserts that tell you where to move the fence (which you need to do for each tail/pin). The part is clamped to a form of miter gauge that slides along the fence, kinda quirky so I'll need to modify that some day.
It does all the work by its ability to accurately move the fence in tiny increments. It helps with final fit up to move the fence and then make cuts on all the parts before moving the fence again (versus creating all cuts on each part before moving on). Aligning the fence cursor to each mark on the template can make one go cross-eyed.
How thick? I presume it was spindle sanded for clean up.
3/16" (about 5mm)
I also cut a template version that is about 1/16" shorter. This gets DS taped to each part and routed with a pattern bit to remove the burn. If I had a lot to do I'd make a clamping jig versus using the tape
The cross pieces are in rabbets, but the small amount of burned wood on the ends gets sanded away.
Sanding the burn away inside the curves is just too much work and I'm very lazy.
I also cut a template version that is about 1/16" shorter. This gets DS taped to each part and routed with a pattern bit to remove the burn. If I had a lot to do I'd make a clamping jig versus using the tape
The cross pieces are in rabbets, but the small amount of burned wood on the ends gets sanded away.
Sanding the burn away inside the curves is just too much work and I'm very lazy.
How deep did you etch? I've always found that sanding off blue tape was a PITA and often blew through... though I always used a ROS and never considered the drum.... maybe double sided tape on my small pieces.
I like to go fairly deep, > 1/16". Thickness didn't really matter for these pieces so I could blow through the tape and then some.
I'll use the ROS to get rid of the excess bulk, but the belt sander with 80g was faster. The DS gets 80g and up until I can peel the tape or it just happens to get sanded off.
Your small pieces are a trickier issue, perhaps some fixture or DS tape as you suggest. Lots of shear forces when using a DS. I'd also suggest some runners to stop any snipe at the edges of the front and back if your sander does that to your stuff.
and probably bought by a Pom... no wonder they're bloody tea drinkers!
I figured that people like stuff that reads "exotic"
I'm always amused by place names around here.
For instance, "Buena Vista trailer park" translates to "Good View trailer park" which I can't really appreciate since it is next to a landfill.
Of course "Buena Vista" sounds exotic where as no one would name a trailer park near a dump "Good View".
So to extend that, what would they call the same trailer park in Mexico?
Would they call it "Good View" to sound exotic? No freaking way, they'd go with "Buena Vista" and do away with any notion of sounding exotic. Us in the states are just weird that way.
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