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Re: Strip: Strip thickness
By:ken
Date: 11/13/2001, 4:39 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Strip thickness (Kurt)

Feather boards and Board Buddies will certainly help reduce variances, but they will not eliminate them. Better wood = less variance. Warps, internal stresses and the like will make uniformly accurate cuts difficult. But ... you can certaily keep most of the variances within a safe range.

Ken

: Are featherboards a likely solution to the variance problem Scott had?

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Strip thickness
Scott -- 11/12/2001, 9:02 pm
cut them down to size first.
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/13/2001, 9:22 pm
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
Scott -- 11/13/2001, 9:07 pm
curved board?
Frank Eberdt -- 11/13/2001, 3:36 pm
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
Chip Sandresky -- 11/13/2001, 3:21 pm
Re: Strip: Strip thickness...Me too..me too
Ben Staley -- 11/13/2001, 3:30 pm
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
Rob Macks -- 11/13/2001, 11:15 am
Cutting Strips (long)
Rob Macks -- 11/13/2001, 11:45 am
Cutting Strips: Final thought
Rob Macks -- 11/13/2001, 12:15 pm
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
Erich Eppert -- 11/13/2001, 10:46 am
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/13/2001, 10:08 am
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
Kurt -- 11/13/2001, 10:05 am
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
ken -- 11/13/2001, 4:39 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/13/2001, 3:36 pm
Re: Strip: Strip thickness *Pic*
Rick Brannan -- 11/13/2001, 1:33 pm
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
Rob Schaum -- 11/13/2001, 8:22 am
Re: Strip: Strip thickness
ken -- 11/13/2001, 6:44 am
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Rick M. -- 11/13/2001, 3:31 am
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Dean Trexel -- 11/12/2001, 11:56 pm
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daren neufeld -- 11/12/2001, 11:01 pm