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Preston Andreas
 
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I had to cut a bunch out of ebony for wedged tenons. I set my bandsaw fence
about 4" from the blade and ran a piece of plywood through. I then cut out
the wedge shape in the edge of the plywood that I just cut. Make sure the
wedge you cut out of the plywood, the width of the stock and the desired
length of the wedges are the same. Place the stock into the wedge and run
the plywood against the fence and cut off the first wedge. Flip the stock
over front to back and run again. This offsets the first angle cut into the
stock. Keep repeating for more wedges. It is an easy setup, fast and
plenty accurate for wedges. BTW, I cut mine at approx. 6°.

Preston


"Ollie" wrote in message
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I am in process of making a series of wedged tenon joints and for that
purpose I need to have quite a many small wedges. First tried to do that
with my table saw were quite dangerous. I did try with the fence and with

a
shop made sliding table. In both cases I had difficulties to keep the

small
pieces in place. My third solution was to use the tenoning jig by tilting
the blade by 5 degree to prepare the wood blank for the wedges and then
slice the wood into strips of the same thickness as the tenon.

I am convinced that there is a better way, where you first slice the

strips
and then make the wedges individually. The main problem is how to keep
those small pieces securely in place. If you make the wide wedges first,
then the difficulty is to slice the nonrectangular small pieces

What is your solution?

+++ Ollie