Sid, Yup! From MLCS. mlcswoodworking.com is their website. Being a rabid Catalogue dude, I used the catalogue.<G> They have all kinds of router bits. One that I just spotted while looking for this reference, is what they call "glue joint bits". It claims "50% greater glue surface than butt joint"! Comes in 1/4" or 1/2" shanks, just like the finger joint bits. Some of their bits are a bit pricey, but it's a great resource when you're doing this woodworking thingee.<G> Regards, Joseph Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I > [Original Message] > From: Sid Blum <piano at sover.net> > To: <joegarrett at earthlink.net> > Date: 11/19/2006 5:09:09 PM > Subject: Re: Butt Joints > > Joe- > > Do you remember where you found the cutter? > > Seems like useful for all sorts of little things. > > Thanks, > > Sid > > > >Terry said: "I think it is well accepted that a grain-end butt joint is > >likely the weakest way to join two pieces of wood. I have a project in my > >shop that required 8-foot long boards of an exotic wood. The longest I > >could find anywhere were 4 feet long. So I bought two 4-foot-long boards. > >Epoxy man used epoxy magic to make the two 4-footers into an 8-foot long > >board. I simply end-butt jointed two boards together to make the longer > >board via the two-step West System bonding method."...... > > > >Terry, > >Epoxy is great, but I'd have opted for a "Finger Joint". I found a cutter > >with 1/4" shank for my router/table. The original project was to extend the > >length of a set of keys. > >Worked slicker'n deer guts on a door knob! I think the combination of the > >epoxy and the finger joint would have made it as if it were just one > >board.<G> BTW, #1 Son works in a plant that makes Trusses and I get a lot > >of the scrap. (for the wood stove/kindling) Noticed finger joints in some > >and asked him. He said they do it all the time to get one continuous length > >of board, rather than "scab" them together. Their engineers say it's just > >fine. > >Regards, > > > >Joseph Garrett, R.P.T. > >Captain, Tool Police > >Squares R I > > > -- > Sid Blum > sid at sover.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.7/537 - Release Date: 11/17/2006
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