WWII is a combination blade. I don't have one and have never felt the need so can't say whether it gives a finish better than any of the blades I do have, however I would not expect any combination blade to give a finish as good as a purpose made rip or crosscut blade doing rip or crosscut respectively.
Not so fast. TruMatch router bit is the way to go for end-to-end panel glue-ups. IMHO. (Wavy bit) Once you get used to that system, nothing else will do.
zzactly. I got into the TruMatch routerbits/base combo and had so much luck with it, I never looked back.
How rude of me...
Oh crap. Go away, would you!?
So, I get how the left and right match up with the wavy edge... like T&G. Is the base combo part of it a spacer that is half the thickness of one 'wave?"
we try
Well, Mike.... I have glued up, end-to-end panels of justabout any veneered panels with the kind of results that made me a believer in a hurry. Hundreds of them. (YES, Robert....hundreds) The fact that is a solid surface joining technique doesn't make it less effective with anything else. It levels, extends the glue line (a half inch panel becomes a 5/8" wide glue line) and when using a proper fence, you get that perfect edge time and time gain. It works, dammit.
an exact 1/8" however you get to that. Either a dedicated router base or a shim laid on one edge (not as reliable. I can hook you up with the right router base, which you can eithew drill yourself or predrilled for your router. I don't know how much of this you're going to do, so.... I think Tom calls it SeamRite
I'm intrigued, believe me. I see that Freud has one, too. I'm still having trouble finding a link to the "base" that I assume gets you a perfect offset in height between the left and right pieces to be joined.
that and make a test cut to check it. I've also gotten pretty adept at running long stock over the router table, so that's not an issue. Funny, but this bit, with the exact offset of the outfeed fence, would function as a jointer as well.
that and make a test cut to check it. I've also gotten pretty adept at running long stock over the router table, so that's not an issue. Funny, but this bit, with the exact offset of the outfeed fence, would function as a jointer as well.
that and make a test cut to check it. I've also gotten pretty adept at running long stock over the router table, so that's not an issue. Funny, but this bit, with the exact offset of the outfeed fence, would function as a jointer as well.
there are a couple of tricks which make it even better.
that and make a test cut to check it. I've also gotten pretty adept at running long stock over the router table, so that's not an issue. Funny, but this bit, with the exact offset of the outfeed fence, would function as a jointer as well.
3 sections glued together my way.
well?...... :-)
If you have it set correctly for the stock thickness then you should be able to alternate cutting from the front and back faces and have them mate perfectly without any shim required.
Well...yes.... that's the whole idea. But I'd run the router along a fence, unless the pieces were small.
Hard to explain, I need to draw that up for you.... maybe not. You want the upside seam to be vertical, not on any tangent of that 1/8".
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