table saw obsolescence

[Leon]

I am assuming a router type CNC. How do you square the bottoms of the finger joints? Do you stand the pieces up on end?

[Scott Lurndal]

Don't be a fool. The throughput would be pathetic.

[Jack]

(Posted at end of numerous lines of extraneous text to conform to ignorance level of previous poster[s])

If everyone ignores him, the newsgroup will practically disappear. If they ignore you, practically no change.

[Puckdropper]

Leon wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I used a 3mm mortising chisel to square things up. There's no room to stand the piece up, my mill* only has 5" or so Z-axis movement.

I guess I could program the mill to approximate a 1/8" radius cut on the side of the finger joints, but at the time it wasn't important. I just spent a few bucks on a chisel and got the work done.

*I said router before, but it's really a mill.

Puckdropper

[krw]

Or rip a 16' 2-by?

[Leon]

I see...a little clean up work. ;~)

[Spalted Walt]

About as well as your "few hundred dollar" table saw can handle these tasks:

What's your point?

[J. Clarke]

Please read the subject.

[Spalted Walt]

re-read the post I orig> I have been following this thread and commented early on about a table

[knuttle]

The average woodworker is more in likely to run into the need cut a 4' X

8' piece of ply wood than to have a need for a machine to cut the complicated cuts shown in the videos.

[Spalted Walt]

I Agree.

[Puckdropper]

Spalted Walt wrote in news: [e-mail]:

For the sake of argument, I'll take a contrary viewpoint. One of the reasons our shapes tend to be square and based upon squares is that they're easy to make. A circular saw wants to cut straight, it just needs a little help. Jigsaws need care to cut curves nicely and bandsaws usually have limited throat clearance.

CNC lets the machine handle fancy and complicated cuts, so it might unlock the creativity of the guy using the machine. Now that he's got a machine that will do perpendicular curved cuts, he'll be more likely to do that fancy cutout and now the desk he's building looks something like the great Chicago Bean. (Maybe it even opens up, like an old roll top.) It's not that he can't do it with traditional tools, it's that the CNC has taken some of the frustration and tedium out of it.

Puckdropper