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Re: Strip: Ripping better strips
By:Etienne Muller - ireland
Date: 1/17/2011, 5:07 am
In Response To: Strip: Ripping better strips (Stephen Troy)

I know it should go without saying, but the crucial starting point of effectively using any saw is: make sure it is as sharp as it can be.

When all is said and done, blade sharpness is, I think, the most crucial aspect of cutting strips. Cedar is very well behaved and will forgive some level of cackhandidness but, as with all cutting, blade set and sharpness counts, and even more so with strips, where there is not much room for deviation. I concentrate on a straight flowing even feed rather than pushing too hard against the fence.

If I do by chance get a wander and some thinness here and there I still use the strip. One can compensate for a half mm and more here and there by inserting a bit of post card or even doubled post card between the station form and the thin strip (and under the lower clamp jaws between stations) in order to maintain perfect surface allignment.

The occasional slight variation is not noticeable inside and you get full advantage of book matching if you don't have to throw out strips that are not 100 percent perfect.

I don't use my stripping blade for anything else but ripping strips.

Et

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Strip: Ripping better strips
Stephen Troy -- 1/15/2011, 11:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/16/2011, 12:53 am
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Al Edie -- 1/16/2011, 3:19 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/16/2011, 3:27 am
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Al Edie -- 1/16/2011, 3:38 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/16/2011, 7:04 am
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Tony Olsen -- 1/16/2011, 9:02 am
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Mike Savage -- 1/16/2011, 12:42 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/16/2011, 1:37 pm
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Ken Blanton -- 1/16/2011, 5:55 am
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Jay Babina -- 1/16/2011, 9:01 am
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Ian Cummins -- 1/16/2011, 5:08 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 1/16/2011, 7:23 pm
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Ian Johnson -- 1/16/2011, 8:08 pm
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Kirk Fredericks -- 1/16/2011, 10:49 pm
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Tony Olsen -- 1/16/2011, 10:58 pm
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Kirk Fredericks -- 1/16/2011, 11:04 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/16/2011, 9:10 pm
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Phil Nelson -- 1/16/2011, 10:03 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 1/18/2011, 10:39 am
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Phil Nelson -- 1/18/2011, 4:17 pm
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Stephen Troy -- 1/17/2011, 12:31 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/17/2011, 4:02 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/17/2011, 6:43 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 1/19/2011, 9:18 am
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Re: Strip: Ripping better strips
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 1/17/2011, 5:07 am