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You thought I was gonna ask you if you like your Excaliber didn't you? C'Mon admit it.
Anyway, I was just gonna ask how many of you have made an edxtra long fence for straightlining alot of boards?
The longest one I ever made was 30' to straightline some 14' boards for a bookcase I made for a law office. I think that was my first actual commission. Anywho, I made a 22' fence this weekend because I am straightlining some boards up to 10+'.
Yes I know I could have built a sled but these boards are green/heavy and large some of them up to 14" wide. All 2" thick. Nad yes I know I could have just clamped some 12' 2xs down and presto, and that's basically al I did with a little more precison thrown in for good measure since these joists have to be straight straight.
We don't have a "Shop Tricks" section yet but Nathan is kicking it around I think (don't quote me on that!) but I thought I might try to get a thread started along those lines. Ever had to get innovative to perform a certain task? Doesn't have to be a long fence could be anything you did to solve a problem/challenge.
Here's my most recent simple poroblem solve. The fence is made of 15ply LVLs that I straightlined (even LVLs are not perfectly straight you know), slowly and meticulously with a 10 1/4" circular saw. I didn't use a chalkline as they tend not to be so straight, so I pulled a tight, lightweight contstruction line and made pencil marks directly under the string, and used aluminum straight edge to connect the dots along the LVL.
Then, I ran the LVLs through the planer to take off the rough circular surface to lessen the friction of the joists sliding down the fnce. I attached them together with a 57 degree scarf joint and topped it with a 4' 2x4 screwed to the top, and then attached the whole 22'2" fence to the old oliver fence and claped both ends to the ends of the infeed/outfeed tables. No intermediate clamping was necessary.
When unclamped, the whole thing moves with the turn of the Oliver adjustment knobs! Worked out great. I''m running behind schedule as I was gonna have them up this weekend but didn't hapen. The wife and me ripped them yesterday after church, lunch, and a powernap!:thumbsup:
Now I have a pile of perfectly straight 2 x 8s ready for the next phase of the operation which is planing, and then after that across the shaper for a nice round-over on both side for the exposed bottoms.
Anyway, I was just gonna ask how many of you have made an edxtra long fence for straightlining alot of boards?
The longest one I ever made was 30' to straightline some 14' boards for a bookcase I made for a law office. I think that was my first actual commission. Anywho, I made a 22' fence this weekend because I am straightlining some boards up to 10+'.
Yes I know I could have built a sled but these boards are green/heavy and large some of them up to 14" wide. All 2" thick. Nad yes I know I could have just clamped some 12' 2xs down and presto, and that's basically al I did with a little more precison thrown in for good measure since these joists have to be straight straight.
We don't have a "Shop Tricks" section yet but Nathan is kicking it around I think (don't quote me on that!) but I thought I might try to get a thread started along those lines. Ever had to get innovative to perform a certain task? Doesn't have to be a long fence could be anything you did to solve a problem/challenge.
Here's my most recent simple poroblem solve. The fence is made of 15ply LVLs that I straightlined (even LVLs are not perfectly straight you know), slowly and meticulously with a 10 1/4" circular saw. I didn't use a chalkline as they tend not to be so straight, so I pulled a tight, lightweight contstruction line and made pencil marks directly under the string, and used aluminum straight edge to connect the dots along the LVL.
Then, I ran the LVLs through the planer to take off the rough circular surface to lessen the friction of the joists sliding down the fnce. I attached them together with a 57 degree scarf joint and topped it with a 4' 2x4 screwed to the top, and then attached the whole 22'2" fence to the old oliver fence and claped both ends to the ends of the infeed/outfeed tables. No intermediate clamping was necessary.
When unclamped, the whole thing moves with the turn of the Oliver adjustment knobs! Worked out great. I''m running behind schedule as I was gonna have them up this weekend but didn't hapen. The wife and me ripped them yesterday after church, lunch, and a powernap!:thumbsup:
Now I have a pile of perfectly straight 2 x 8s ready for the next phase of the operation which is planing, and then after that across the shaper for a nice round-over on both side for the exposed bottoms.
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