Ogee Stile & Rail problems

PIcture came out great. Red Oak…...nice choice. I have been using matched rail & stile tooling for many years, I worry when they go together too easily. Mine have almost always required a wrap or 2 with a dead blow mallet before I clamped them. I am not familiar with the Bosch tools but I would assume that they were ready to use out of the box. Did they include any instructions with regard to fine tuning the tooling by adding or subtracting shims? I have seen that on the convertable tooling. The tool where you run the cope and then disassemble and reassemble the tool for the rip. Hate them very much. Final question…during the cut, where both pieces hard against the guide bearing?

Ed

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You may want to try this on a test piece: push down just a touch harder when running a sticking piece through…

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

I pushed it hard :) against teh bearing and down on the plate. I can get them together but they sure feel tight. I’ll try a glue up and see if it holds up, I can always cut a new out next year <grin>.

I found the red oak at $1.50 a bf local (thanks GuyK), he said he just had to much laying around so I bought a bit maybe I should go get more , but I have no place to store it yet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowdogjoe/904294209/

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That does not look like too much to me Snow. If I found a bargain like that, I would have a huge stack of it. As long as you take care in storing it to keep it from warping and free of bugs, it should be usable for years to come. And since Red Oak is my favorite, it would be worth it to use up some space for storage.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

If I had a place to store it, that is the kicker :) I am talking (attempting to) my wife into letting me use the boiler room for a wood storage room but that battle is not won yet. I should probably start another post on how best to store wood or at least read a bit more about it. I remember reading that you should not use a load bearing wall for storage racks but that is another post.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Hey Snowdog, is that kiln dried @ $1.50 per bdft? If so, hook me up, I’ll take all I can get and then worry about storage.

Ed

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