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Thread: Straightening a Bunnies Bannana
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5th April 2004, 10:01 AM #1
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Straightening a Bunnies Bannana
I spent at least an hour searching through the DAR Jarrah at Bunnies looking for some 200 x 19 which was straight. It became apparent that this was impossible. I decided to go with some flat pieces with curved sides and use my router to joint the sides.
What a fantastic result. I used a peice of 45 x45 aluminium angle 6mm thick as the guide to run the router base along. Routed down both sides so that they were parrallel minimising the loss in width and minimising the amount needed to be routed.
Maybe I don't need a jointer after all:confused:
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5th April 2004, 04:23 PM #2
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care to explain a little further ????
Not sure how you set up the angle bracket.The Thief of BadGags
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5th April 2004, 05:36 PM #3
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I know that the distance from the edge of my straight router cutter bit to the edge of the router base is 74mm. I placed the aluminium angle 74mm back from the straight cut I am aiming to create. Clamp the angle down with some G cramps and then run the router base (in the normal upright position) along the aluminium angle creating a nice straight square cut along the length of the timber.
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5th April 2004, 06:23 PM #4
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If you have access to a Router table you can use the following method as well,
http://www.woodshopdemos.com/rtrplnr.htm
I've used it quite effectively, The only limtation is the height of the router bit,
Himzo.There's no such thing as too many Routers
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5th April 2004, 08:55 PM #5
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I do a similar thing but to make life much easier, I have made up a pair of MDF offcuts that have been trimmed to the correct size using the fence and router themselves.
Simply a case of laying these gauges against the desired line and then snugging up the aluminium fence. Clamp the fence down, remove the gauges and use the same size cutter as used to create the gauges and Maudy's your aunt, a cut that runs against the desired line every time
The best thing is no extra measuring other than the desired cutline is required so no mistakes caused by reading rulers backwards
Tip: write down the cutter size used on the templates and you won't make a mistake with the wrong cutter.Ray
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