K.I.S.S.

"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Or KISS, if you prefer. Whchi means keep It Simple Stupid, for
> those few not in the know.
>
> I'm figuring on making a chess board out of some of the oak
> flooring my older son donated to me. Simple enough, but been trying to
> come up with a simple way to take off the tonge. Came up with all sorts
> of ways that'd work, but they'd all take time. then it hit me. The
> pattern bit in my router table is set to route 1/2 inch plywood. That's
> exactly the right height to take the tongue off enoughpieces to make the
> chess board. Heh. Now all I need to do after I knock off the tonge is
> to make a stop block for the miter saw, and start lopping squares off,
> then glue 'em in place. Sooo simple. Once I figured it out that is.

What's wrong with running them through the table saw? Am I missing
something here?
--
NuWave Dave in Houston

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:22:03 -0400, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:

> Or KISS, if you prefer. Whchi means keep It Simple Stupid, for
>those few not in the know.
>
> I'm figuring on making a chess board out of some of the oak
>flooring my older son donated to me. Simple enough, but been trying to
>come up with a simple way to take off the tonge. Came up with all sorts
>of ways that'd work, but they'd all take time. then it hit me. The
>pattern bit in my router table is set to route 1/2 inch plywood. That's
>exactly the right height to take the tongue off enoughpieces to make the
>chess board. Heh. Now all I need to do after I knock off the tonge is
>to make a stop block for the miter saw, and start lopping squares off,
>then glue 'em in place. Sooo simple. Once I figured it out that is.

Why even cut the tongue off? just put it together like a floor if you
are keeping the full width of the flooring. Or are you keeping all
the squares the same color but changing grain direction or something?

There's a better way than cutting squares to make a chessboard so long
as your pieces of flooring are long enough to do a whole row plus
kerfs. Glue up your 8 rows all together, cut strips from your glue up
on the TS and then just turn every other row around. Even if they
aren't long enough to do a whole row you could do it in quarters.



-Leuf