I am building a bookcase whose two vertical supports will lean at a 70 degree angle. The shelves will slide into dados in the supports.
Because the supports are not truly vertical, but lean at an angle, their dados will have parallel but angled sides. I realize I could achieve the cut by angling dado blades on the table saw, but it would be hard since the supports are almost 8 feet long and 12 inches wide.
I’d like to do it with a router. Anybody know of a simple router jig that would do the job?
Many thanks, Paul
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Well, I'd just do it on my RAS.
Piece 'o cake, really.
;-)
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
Everything fits, until you put glue on it.
Forgive me, Mike, but what is a RAS?Best, Paul
Radial arm saw, it would be my tool of choice for that job also.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.~ Denis Diderot
Like DGreen says, RAS = Radial Arm Saw. Set it for a 20° bevel, run a dado across, and done.Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PAEverything fits, until you put glue on it.
If a radial arm saw (I don't do abbreviations, spent too much time learning typing and English) will work, so would a tablesaw.
That reminds me, speaking of English, if you guys want to have a barrel of fun, go look for a wrench to fit a spanner nut.
You are a braver man than I.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.~ Denis Diderot
come now you must use :
etc.
e.g.
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on occasion
Monogramed shirts ?ROFLMAOhttp://www.internetslang.com/ROFLMAO.asprocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
None of the above.But then, monogramed shirts DO bring up a great story.
How about AM and PM? Even I use those!Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
Not me.I use a twenty four hour clock. :)
Dang! I saw that coming. I'll be up all night thinking about which abbreviation you use - there must be one!Well, you do use smiley faces.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=48530.16Ha ha! I win!Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
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Ha! Yes, you did! :)
I have never seen the need of AM verses say 10 a or 11 p. I am probably conveying some entirely different info without even realizing it. Maybe I take my meridian too much for granted.: )oops I mean . . . " ".rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
"....10a or 11p."
Abbreviations are bad enough but now you go and abbreviate the abbreviations. Whew!
>"....10a or 11p."Abbreviations are bad enough but now you go and abbreviate the abbreviations. Whew!<Well I gotta save my strength for all that obsessive over sharpening and hand planing.I can't be pushing shift keys and stuff any more than I gotta, thats for pros.Probably all started while using manual type writers. Remember those. Push that pinky over there and down then wham ! Up goes the whole carriage ! Ahh the prowess of youth. But then we get a little weaker and a little lazier and it is "a" and "p" from them on.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
Edited 12/1/2009 6:38 pm by roc
AM? You've got to be kidding me. I'm retired! ;-)
... said Ralph at 8:54 am.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
I just leave my clocks set to 12:30, so I think I'm getting up in time for lunch. And, since I don't put batteries in them, I never have to worry. ;-)
Roc,I am not much a fan of abbreviations either. I tolerate the use of some, but if I start seeing things which I have no idea what they refer to, my interest (and ability to follow) wanes quickly. Perhaps it's partly because I enjoy writing and really enjoy the English language and hate how it gets butchered. Maybe that's why I don't associate too much with today's youth who are abbreviation every word and phrase they come across. Not a great fan of emoticons either.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
> emoticons<
Now you knowwww I had to look that one up.: )I'll try to cut back. How, by the way, do you recommend conveying that one is messing around pulling legs rather than being a serious loooooserrrrrr ?I get in trouble easy enough with that little doofus face. I am not cool guy enough to get right side up faces and colored text and larger type into this forum. The best I can do is a bullet•shazzzam still got that at least.rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )
We're all serious loooosers. Just kidding.Does that work for you?Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
Chris..
and really enjoy the English language and hate how it gets butchered..
English is a old Traders Language in my opinion. Many folks of different languages used to trade goods? Not sure that is true but I 'think' my old English professor said that one day in a class while I was awake?
Not a big fan of abbreviations either but I will use on occasion. I have only used English for 69 years and still learning! English grew up a buchered language!
Edited 11/29/2009 11:53 am by WillGeorge
WTF??
Unfortunately, I know that one.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
In polite circles, we use WTB (what the [bleep]) ;-)
Oh, I thought WTB meant WaTerBased. See - abbreviations stink.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodworks.com and http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com)
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
STINK = serious truncations indicating nobody knows. ;-)
"STINK = serious truncations indicating nobody knows."
heh-heh-heh-heh
I think we have a winner here, folks.
Ralph - Just one more example of my misspent youth. Thanks for helping me gain respectability. Lord knows my dear wife has tried her poor heart out over these many decades.
However - it is one abbrev that never goes unrecognized, eh?
Well, I'd do it with a router and use a template. For example if I had say four sides to do 5' long 12" wide with a dado 70 degrees. I'd cut a fith piece (exact replica) of say mdf to the lenght that I need that bottom shelf and attach a stringer at the top so that it hooked the top edge of the side(have it lipped on both sides so you can flip to make the the mirror edge). I'd then cut the bottom dado (cut at 70 on the template on all 4 sides from the same reference point (lipped hooked to the top of the side) with the router edge against the template.. Ok, now all 4 bottom dado's are parallel. I'd then cut of the proper amound from my template to raise it to the level of the second dado at 70. I would again cut all four sides. I'd shorten to the next and so on till all were cut and throw whats left of the template away. Since you use the same template and always start from the same reference point (the top of the side) you will be parallel. Hope I explained my thoughts well. I've used this for book cases and a hutch I made recently. Good luck.
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It is easy to make and angled baseplate for the router. Use shims or cut your own "doorstops" to match the angle. Be sure to check the depth of cut...too thick a base makes a router bit obsolete. I've used two pieces of quarter inch hinged on one edge and shims stacked and screwed on the other.
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