"David F. Eisan" wrote in message
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Hey Dave thats great...amazing actually. But now I have this piece of
1/64" thick veneer I cut on my band saw. If I mail it to you could you
smooth it up with your Byrd equipped jointer? :~)

Hello everyone,

I was finishing up the tack in strips for the back of the glass doors on my
parent's kitchen tonight. In order to sneak up on the required thickness for
the strips, I started to pull out my drum sander. There was a plastic bag on
the top of it I had forgotten about. Inside that bag was a 1.5"
cross-section of a white oak tree that my BIL had wanted me to surface one
side of for him. Something about wanting to count the growth rings. It had
been sectioned (chewed) by a chain saw and was totally irregular on both
sides. It was on top of the drum sander because I was going to run it
through there.

On the sander I would have to change to 36g and take a number of passes with
the cross section secured to a sled as I made one side flat. Then I would
have to change to finer grits so he could read the rings.

Hmmm..

I have this new Byrd shear helical cutterhead on my jointer; I wonder if I
could do it with that?

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/stump1.jpg

After two passes,

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/stump2.jpg

After four passes,

http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/stump3.jpg

Holy cow Batman!

Boy those medullary rays sure stand out!

The new cutterhead had no problem with the end grain! I am sure my (a)
regular knifed cutterhead would have blown that cross section apart!

Wow! Is all I have to say,

David.

Every neighbourhood has one; in mine I'm him.

P.S. Please excuse the overuse of exclamation marks..

Can this be retro fitted to a Robland X31 combination machine?


On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:01:41 +0100, David F. Eisan
wrote:

Byrd shear helical cutterhead



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