On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:35:23 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote:

William Bagwell wrote:
...
BTW these grooves need to be slightly rough. While I want to avoid
splinters extremely smooth groves are not what I need or want. Nor do I
want any radius at the top or bottom of the grooves. This would defeat the
whole purpose of having grooves for the bats little toenails to grip

Bats? Just get some rough-sawn wood or take some very coarse grit paper and
rough up the surface. They'll figure it out. They're able to cling to the
ceilings of caves, you know.

I actually discussed rough-sawn with a sawmill that supplies the pallet
industry a few days ago. Described my needs and they believe that in relatively
small quantities they can beat the price per square foot of exterior plywood.
Sadly my prototype run will not be large enough to cover the set up charge.

If you want to make it a project, take a 12 TPI saw blade, clamp it between
a couple of pieces of angle stock, and scrape the surface sideways. :-)

Power hack saw blades! In a jointer, not hand scraping... If your idea works
they would be incredibly easy to make and replace when dull.
--
William