Patriarch wrote:

Duane Bozarth wrote in
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Patriarch wrote:

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On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:46:06 GMT, "Cyrille de Brébisson"
wrote:

I need to make 350lf of tongue and grove in Jatoba (356 of tongue,
350 of grove), and was wondering what was the best approach?

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Whichever method you choose, consider that control of the stock and
feed rates will have a major effect on the quality of the results,
and the safety to the operator.

A pro shop would likely use a power feeder on something looking a lot
like a shaper.

Keep in mind that jatoba is way up the hardness scale...

That's what I'd use but I suspect OP doesn't have that option unless
this looks like a good (enough) excuse...


My estimate is that this is probably about US$1k in materials cost. And
this is a big project, no matter how you look at it, for a hobby guy.
I'm one of those, for certain.

Do it carefully, Cyrille.

Yes, indeedy, that's first and foremost...

For a real answer regarding how I'd do it by hand, I'd like to know the
size of the pieces (length, width, thickness) and the size of the T&G.
Plus, it would be helpful to know the toolset available.

A 1/4" groove on 10-ft or less 3/4" stock of 6" or less width I'd
probably cut w/ the help of a jig/featherboard/infeed/outfeed tables on
the tablesaw--but I have a 5hp PM66. If I only had a very small
contractor setup, I'd probably rethink that entirely.

I've done a lot of moulding of similar nature w/ the RAS and a moulding
head in the past, but I suspect Cyrille doesn't have one of those,
either....I've used the moulding head on the tablesaw or set up
double-bladed cuts as for tenoning to do such things, as well.