Yep, it definitely ain't purdy. Works though.

I haven't noticed a tear out problem with this rig, not to say it won't happen. I just don't remember having much of a problem.
Some of my strips would absolutely have a tear out problem, because they do when I plane them later. What's key for avoiding that is close tolerances in my jig. I drilled a hole in the table and fence slightly larger than the bits, the top hold down fingers, one just before the bit, one after are very tight--no chatter.
Another thing I did to avoid tear-out is to look at each strip and reverse some of them (flipped end for end) before running them through. They all came out of the same board, but some have significantly different grain patterns.

If you're interested I can draw this up and post it. I don't think it's definitive by a long shot, but it's cheap, quick and it doesn't cost as much as a shaper as do many of the commercial router tables in the catalogs. This set up worked a lot better than the first time I did this 5 years ago. I think the main difference is the top hold downs.

finally: I would prefer to use straight edged strips. I have to have a two week "don't look at it" after I've stripped a hull and deck. My method is less stripping than it is Venetian Blinding.
What are the stages of my stripping? Sheer strip, ruin two or three strips, Grief, acceptance that I should just cove and bead, routing, gluing two strips with clamps, Panic and Giving into Stapling..... installing the last strip in the dark. Throwing up the next morning. Worrying, guilt, explaining to my girlfriend why Nick can get $20K for a kayak but not me, doing something else for two weeks (I reinstalled my Greene and Greene bathroom cabinet), more acceptance... patching the biggest gaps (where I am today), fairing, sanding, sealing, filling, more sanding.....

If I had the patience to not use cove and bead strips--I'd not use them. (this should be an easy problem for some kind of CNC machine.)

: That looks like one of those mazes you put a mouse in and he has to
: find the cheese!