: I'm stumped. In the picture you see the first wide cedar strip glued to the
: thin pine strip just this side of the center of the deck and the tapered
: front is glued to the inside of the thin pine deck shear strip. Now you
: see the thin cedar strip on the right side of the picture just setting on
: top of the thin pine deck shear strip. How do I get that strip to twist
: down and glued to the inside of that pine shear strip at the front? Is it
: a kind of a rolling bevel or have I really screwed up somehow? I hate to
: start removing wood without some kind of understanding. Thank you.

: John

Yes, thats a rolling bevel. The angle of which at midpt betw the form and the end is almost in line w/ your eyes in the photo. If you run a flat file along the bevel, pointing the end down(inline w/ yr eyes in the middle) - perpendic at the form, to bisecting the angle bewt the sheer and the ctr pcs at the end, you'll get a pretty good approximation of the rolling bevel. Pretty easy to approximate here espec as it(the roll - it still bevels) doesn't run past a form. (I'd run it past a bit.

If the strip is havig a hard time twisting - keep it long at first and twist w/ clamps, or steam it -(maybe using the flexible steamer I yapped abt in a prior post), or steam iron and wet rag or heat gun, or from the end to the form only cut a rip line right down the centre of the strip w/ a razor saw so just that part is in 2 more easily handlable or staircasable pcs - may not even see it when glued up - the grain, everything'll match.

You're having probs just because you didn't anticipate it earlier. If you start the bevel just a little early, before the form and started rolling it, you'd be surprised at how well it goes.

-mick