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Post by sawduster on May 1, 2010 7:46:20 GMT -6
I was gonna recommend getting wider boards than your final thickness, then ripping them, but man that would be a real chore by hand. Another option is someone else with shop that might be willing to help you out with ripping and even with some extra clamps to help with the glue up. Might be someone on here that would be willing, if you gave us an idea of where you live. ;D
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Post by RiverWalker on May 1, 2010 11:06:23 GMT -6
well I CAN say publicly that I live less than an hour from St Louis, on the Illinois side, and not in a particularly dangerous area.
took a trip to a local lumberyard, and they have free delivery, and the prices they quoted me are looking a little better than what i saw at the other stores.
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Post by sawduster on May 1, 2010 12:10:53 GMT -6
You could put something like SW Illinois in the location block in your profile then allow it to display in the sidebar of your posts. That gives folks an area without being too specific. Bet we likely got some others in your area that would be willing to help out in all sorts of ways. Woodworkers are like that, yeah they are. ;D
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Post by RiverWalker on May 2, 2010 9:24:59 GMT -6
You could put something like SW Illinois in the location block in your profile then allow it to display in the sidebar of your posts. That gives folks an area without being too specific. Bet we likely got some others in your area that would be willing to help out in all sorts of ways. Woodworkers are like that, yeah they are. ;D well dang, that'd be awesome. I would definitely be open to trying to work out something like that. on another alternative though, I wonder if theres any chance the lumber yard could do the ripping like that... and if they could(and theres not someone local to me that can help) I wonder if it'd be possible to rig up something using the leg materials to have a functional-enough clamping rig with wedges or something... man I'm crazy for even trying to consider that aren't I? |
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Post by sawduster on May 2, 2010 15:00:37 GMT -6
One tailed tool you might consider is a decent hand held circular saw. With that you could set up a couple of saw horses and use a pair of wedges on each along with a block of scrap attached to each to wedge you planks against, then use the fence on the circular saw to rip your planks.
Since a lot of the machine heads don't come here often, when you get ready to tackle this, you might post a message asking for assistance in the General Wood Working forum.
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Post by RiverWalker on May 2, 2010 18:21:37 GMT -6
One tailed tool you might consider is a decent hand held circular saw. With that you could set up a couple of saw horses and use a pair of wedges on each along with a block of scrap attached to each to wedge you planks against, then use the fence on the circular saw to rip your planks. Since a lot of the machine heads don't come here often, when you get ready to tackle this, you might post a message asking for assistance in the General Wood Working forum. hmm, my Father In Law(whom we live closer to) may have a circular saw that I could borrow, so maybe something with that could be workable. its exra funny that you mention this, because I was telling my fiancee about the ideas and plans and problems and such with the whole workbench thing, and she suggested the possibility of using a circular saw (thus the idea that her dad my have one) but I hadn't thought of doing it like you said. she'll have a laugh that her idea was actually a feasable option even though I hadn't thought of it like that. I'll head over there and ask about it when I get closer to actually making these ideas reality. |
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Post by admin on May 2, 2010 18:36:17 GMT -6
You should be able to make a suitable fence for it, if nothing more than a board clamped on the face of the board you want to cut just to guide the baseplate of the saw.
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Post by RiverWalker on May 2, 2010 19:51:54 GMT -6
You should be able to make a suitable fence for it, if nothing more than a board clamped on the face of the board you want to cut just to guide the baseplate of the saw. yeah, thinking about it, it shouldn't really be a problem. lol, to be honest, I am not fond of, or particularly experienced with circular saws, so I just never thought of it like that. I guess helping(holding the long end after cutting) my dad rip boards on a radial saw since I was itty bitty, sorta imprinted ideas of how to do certain things on me. |
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