> Any suggestions for setting up a fence for positioning/guiding the strips?

> My strips are pretty consistent in width but it would be nice to be able
> to improve them since I am milling them anyway. In a typical setup, the
> strip against the fence and the fence setting would control the depth of
> the cove without reference to the bead side of the strip.

> I was going to route the bead first and was hoping to mill the cove in
> some way that it would control the width of the strip [relative to the
> bead] at the same time. Anybody done this? __________________________________

Hank,

Here's a nice jig for shaping the Cove & Bead edges on your strips. It keeps the strip from slopping / chattering around. Hook the vacumn up as the other responses mention. Do all the bead edges first, then all the cove edges last for best results.

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