Looking for some insight / thoughts
I am looking to make some stools for a new kitchen. The design I am
shooting for uses stretchers that are curved in the chape of a horse shoe.
The front of the stool has a straight stretcher. The sides and back from
the horse shoe
I am interested in making the horsehsoe stretcher out of laminated strips of
maple. I figure a form made of MDF, glue and clamps should do the trick.
Once I have the curved sections glued up I will need to clean the top and
bottom of the curved section -- glue squeeze out. I am considering
running them through the planer but not sure how this will work -- being
that they are curved and I am not sure they will ride through perpendicular.
I also have a drum sander.
Anybody got a good way to do this ?
Sam the Cat wrote:
>
> Looking for some insight / thoughts
>
> I am looking to make some stools for a new kitchen. The design I am
> shooting for uses stretchers that are curved in the chape of a horse shoe.
> The front of the stool has a straight stretcher. The sides and back from
> the horse shoe
>
> I am interested in making the horsehsoe stretcher out of laminated strips of
> maple. I figure a form made of MDF, glue and clamps should do the trick.
>
> Once I have the curved sections glued up I will need to clean the top and
> bottom of the curved section -- glue squeeze out. I am considering
> running them through the planer but not sure how this will work -- being
> that they are curved and I am not sure they will ride through perpendicular.
> I also have a drum sander.
>
> Anybody got a good way to do this ?
Hardened glue and planer knives - never the two should meet
(unless you're willing to replace the knives of course - order two
or three sets)
Two sided tape the parts together and run them through the
drum sander on edge. If you want to be safer, make the form
for bening 1/4" thinner than the height of the lams and double
side tape it to the pieces before drum sanding
charlie b
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:33:25 -0400, "Sam the Cat"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Looking for some insight / thoughts
>
>I am looking to make some stools for a new kitchen. The design I am
>shooting for uses stretchers that are curved in the chape of a horse shoe.
>The front of the stool has a straight stretcher. The sides and back from
>the horse shoe
>
>I am interested in making the horsehsoe stretcher out of laminated strips of
>maple. I figure a form made of MDF, glue and clamps should do the trick.
>
>Once I have the curved sections glued up I will need to clean the top and
>bottom of the curved section -- glue squeeze out. I am considering
>running them through the planer but not sure how this will work -- being
>that they are curved and I am not sure they will ride through perpendicular.
>I also have a drum sander.
>
>Anybody got a good way to do this ?
>
block plane. some reasonably flat surface as reference.