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   robkelly | Mar 11, 2004 04:25am | #1

   Yes, it works but your fences have to be dead flat and parallel and if you use a power feeder (which I recommend) on long boards, you often get some snipe at the end. My experience is that even with perfect fence set up, you still have what amounts to a short bed jointer which is hard to adjust for depth of cut.

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   RANGERP75R | Mar 11, 2004 06:12am | #2

   Mike

      Not with a shaper, but with my router table. It was my edge jointer until I got a floor model face jointer. I designed my router fence with a sliding split face. When I edge jointed, I simply inserted a piece of 1/16" formica behind the out-feed side between the face fence and sub-fence. The face of that out-feed is flush with the straight router bit. The in-feed side would hence-forth set in 1/16" and allow a 1/16" bite with the out-feed re-inforcing the removed area.

      Worked for years. If the shaper has a split fence should work on that also. Jointer, router table, shaper, TS with a jig or shoot it with a jointer plane. All get you there with. They just take a different route.

   Regards...

   sarge..jt

   Proud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   PlaneWood | Mar 11, 2004 07:38am | #3

   Hey Sarge -

   I've used the router for real long glue joints.  Separate the boards by 5/8" and using a guide board, run a 3/4" bit down the gap.  Perfect joints.  Takes a while to get set up though.  If you bobble, you have to reset the gap and run it again.

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_Katy (maker of fine sawdust!)PlaneWood

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   RANGERP75R | Mar 11, 2004 06:48pm | #4

   Mike

      Any particular reason you just don't get a jointer? If it's money dis-regard. That's the best reason I can think of.

   :>)

   sarge..jtProud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   PlaneWood | Mar 11, 2004 07:16pm | #5

   Well, Sarge, It's kinda like this -

   When we first moved here with this 3/4 acre yard I tried mowing it with a regular push type gasoline lawnmower.  After sweating out one summer, I got a John Deere riding mower.  When the wife found out how much it cost, she raised a 'hissey fit'.  And, she would occasionally bring that subject back before the supper table.  Grrrrrr.........

   Well the next summer, I was gone for 3 weeks.  When I got back I noticed that 1/3 of the yard had been mowed.  Seems she had got out the old mower and had given it a try.

   Funny, but I never heard another word about that riding mower!!!!!!!!

   You get my drift?  Just gotta find the right incentive.

   ps - the mowing crew is here right now.  I retired the John Deere 5 years ago.

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_Katy (maker of fine sawdust!)PlaneWood

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   RANGERP75R | Mar 12, 2004 05:25am | #6

   Mike

      He.. he...

   Good luck...

   sarge..jtProud member of the :  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)