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Xphile:
urk, never really thought about it, but your right..he'd have to flip the fence to the other side of the blade, and run his workpiece through on edge...not gonna be the most uniform cut if you get your workpiece wobbling while cutting..:-) Probably not going to want to cut a full sheet this way...(xphile has visions of a 100 pound sheet of MDF flopping over and doing very bad things to shmokes, the tablesaw, and my conscience)
(could do it on the shaper tho'...well, he could if he had a shaper and cutter...not really much help there, sorry.:-)
Wienerdog:
lol, usually that cut is done on a shaper or a tablesaw with a jig (sharing xphiles 100 pound vision...). For a full sheet of MDF, it might be feasible to build a jig for a (very strong=High HP) circular saw... if you had to.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Wienerdog on March 02, 2003, 01:00:46 am ---
With a stock table saw setup, you can get an angle from 45
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Xphile:
just not thinking simple the last couple days..:-)so, thinking further, (as long at the cutter will span the 3/4 inch- I'm pretty sure it won't, you prolley need a 3 inch long bit to span15 degrees over 3/4 inch- but if it did..:-) you could clamp the piece *securely* to your workbench and run the router plate along the edge of the 3/4, with the bearing riding on the flat..like this:
_____________________
_____________________] <- router plate
|\ \ /
| \ \ /
| \ \ /
| \ \ /
| \ \ / <--cutter
| \ \ /
| \ \ /
| \ \ /
| | [_] <--bearing rides here
| |
(ick, just previewed it and ascii art is *not* my forte..)
it would be a little tippy, so go slow but steady, don't be too tense or you may over compensate, and you'd only get one shot at it, (your 3/4 inch plate riding surface would be gone after your pass)
c'mon Shmokes, what is your aplication? with all the woodworkers here maybe we can brainstorm a safer/easier/better solution for ya..:-)
shmokes:
Hmm...I've very little woodworking experience, but I must be going about this the wrong way cos what I'm talking about should be really common. The edges I want to cut are for the front and back walls of my control panel. The top surface will be angled downward 15 degrees and I want it to sit flush on top of all the walls. I feel like I'm missing something that should be obvious.