Subject: [baidarka] Table Saw cove cutting
From: William Nettles (netttles@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 14:07:17 EDT
Coves cuts on the table saw are probaably not necesary for paddle making.
You can cut out a paddle shoulder curve and smooth it a lot quicker then all
the set up required to safely do it on a tablesaw. Usually this cove cutting
set-up is used to custom make long pieces of molding.
Here are a couple of links to Fine Woodworking magazine that have tips
concerning cove cuts on a table saw:
a calculator for designing any manner of coves using angle of the wood
strip, sawblade height, and saw blade angle.
http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/nmw030.asp
the January/February 2004 issue has an article
CUTTING COVES ON THE TABLESAW
by Stuart Sabol
Safe, accurate methods for making your own molding
http://www.taunton.com/store/pages/fw_toc_168.as
(this one is a link to the table of contents and a link to buying a back
copy. I'll trade my copy for clear grain sitka spruce (g!)
And I've never had the need to do any of this so your mileage may vary.
But rule number one seems to be multiple passes removing bits of wood on
each pass.
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