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Re: Strip: tools
By:B.Abel
Date: 6/5/2012, 12:16 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: tools (Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K)

: Do yourself a big favor and skip the cove and bead route.

: Milling C&B properly is one of the fussiest things you can do with
: a router.

: I bet 90%+ people don't get it right the first time. I didn't. And
: I didn't throw those strips away.

: If you don't get them right you defeat the whole purpose and you've
: just made your work harder.

: Pre-bevel one edge of your strips on the table saw and hand bevel
: the rest.
: It's much faster and easier and you'll have your hull stripped in
: the time you
: would spend fussing with C&B.

: Check this for details: http://www.laughingloon.com/shoptips3.html

: All the best,
: Rob

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Trust Rob on this one. I built one of his NorthStars last year and skipped the B/C and did the pre-bevel with hand bevel to fit and had a very easy time with great results. A friend of mine built a stripper with B/C and had all kinds of problems, he wished he had followed my lead.

Good luck,
B. Abel

Messages In This Thread

Strip: tools
Tyler Verdery -- 6/5/2012, 11:02 am
Re: Strip: tools
Ian Cummins -- 6/5/2012, 11:24 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 6/5/2012, 11:25 am
Re: Strip: tools
B.Abel -- 6/5/2012, 12:16 pm
Re: Strip: tools
B.Abel -- 6/5/2012, 12:26 pm
Re: Strip: tools
Etienne Muller -- 6/5/2012, 2:52 pm
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Donovan -- 6/5/2012, 6:24 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 6/5/2012, 5:42 pm
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John Messinger -- 6/5/2012, 8:01 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 6/6/2012, 12:57 am
Re: Strip: tools
Marc Upchurch -- 6/6/2012, 8:02 am
Re: Strip: tools
Etienne Muller -- 6/6/2012, 8:27 am
Re: Strip: tools
Tyler Verdery -- 6/6/2012, 9:40 am
Re: Strip: tools
dave g -- 6/6/2012, 7:33 pm
Re: Strip: tools
Sean Dawe -- 6/6/2012, 2:06 pm
Re: Strip: tools
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 6/6/2012, 7:49 pm
Re: Strip: tools
ancient kayaker -- 6/7/2012, 8:31 am
Re: Strip: tools
Kirk Fredericks -- 6/8/2012, 1:06 pm
Re: Strip: tools
Etienne Muller -- 6/8/2012, 2:36 pm
Re: Strip: tools
Sean Dawe -- 6/9/2012, 9:06 am