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Ed Weber's Stave Sled
Apr 18th, 2018 at 3:06pm
 
I watched Eds slide show showing his way of sawing staves and like the fact that it seems safer since the cut piece falls away from the sled and blade. So I decided to make one and as it went along the left brain took over and I went a little over-kill. Decided it should be adjustable since I may even make another stave project. Then I thought, since I only have a protractor on my combo square, maybe I should incorporate a sine bar for setting the angle (don't most guys have a set of JO Blocks laying around the house? (I Don't) and that's the way it wound up. First pictures are the sled. Last picture is the first cut on one piece using a .4123 jo block (sanded walnut). Now I need to reverse it and put in a .8218 block to cut the other sides. Everybody has a micrometer for sanding the blocks. Now all I need is one of those magnetic digital levels to set the saw blade with. Hmmm, guess I could have used that on the sled and stood it up on end. Oh well, what do you guys really think??.
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Re: Ed Weber's Stave Sled
Reply #1 - Apr 18th, 2018 at 6:54pm
 
I like ii  Thumbs Up
Makes mine look like the red-head step child to that one.
BTW Very clever clamping solution.
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Reply #2 - Apr 18th, 2018 at 9:17pm
 
I like it a lot!!  Thank you for showing it to us.
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Reply #3 - Apr 19th, 2018 at 8:39am
 
Thanks guys, its limited to sizes that will fit on my 12" Delta lathe which is about a 10" bowl so far.
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Reply #4 - Apr 19th, 2018 at 10:37am
 
How is the stave thickness consistently set?
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Reply #5 - Apr 19th, 2018 at 1:07pm
 
Thickness? These 12 were sawed to size on the tablesaw. Width? controlled by the adjustable stop. This set is 1" thick cherry. Maybe i'm not understanding the question?
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Reply #6 - Apr 19th, 2018 at 1:44pm
 
In the photo, the piece of cherry is set to be cut at a certain thickness. Once that is cut, how do you repeat that thickness... actually, how do you set the thickness to begin with?

...or is that piece of cherry the actual piece you will be using and then you just keep putting pieces in there to cut the desired angle.

I thought you were cutting "strips" off of that piece of cherry to make staves with an angle on each edge based on the angle of the blade in relation to the wood.

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Reply #7 - Apr 19th, 2018 at 2:37pm
 
+1 on the clamping solution. I will be stealing that for sure.
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Reply #8 - Apr 19th, 2018 at 6:10pm
 
Ralph, those are the finished 1" thickness already, i'm just cutting the miter angles with the blade tipped already.

I had a long board of 2 1/4 thick cherry and just ripped a 1" strip to cut up into staves. Finished size on the wide end is 2 1/16".
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Reply #9 - Apr 20th, 2018 at 8:03am
 
Thanks, George, that clears it up. Smiley Smiley
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Reply #10 - Apr 22nd, 2018 at 1:27pm
 
I need to get a magnetic angle guage for tipping my table saw blade. Would you recommend the Wixey or the Johnson? or another brand. I cut 12 staves setting the blade angle with the table saw scale and wound up about 3/4 inch off of a full circle. The miter angle is very positive but the tilt angle is way off. I'll probably add a 13th piece in there just to save the wood wasted.
Thanks in advance. Geo.

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Reply #11 - Apr 22nd, 2018 at 3:39pm
 
I use a wixey with no complaints.
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Reply #12 - Apr 22nd, 2018 at 6:25pm
 
I have the Wixey and the I-gauging
A few thing to know about these tools.
You NEED to read the accuracy not how many decimal places it has.
Some of these units have 2 decimal places, like 45.23 degrees but only claim an accuracy to .2.
Get the most accurate model you can get.
I don't know about the Wixey these days, they used to use a large button cell battery but the I-gauging takes a standard (less expensive) 9v battery.
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Reply #13 - Apr 22nd, 2018 at 8:04pm
 
Ed

The wixey I have uses 2AA batteries and so far has lasted 2 years.
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Reply #14 - Apr 23rd, 2018 at 8:41am
 
Good,
When I bought mine, (I'm guessing earlier than you did) that was not available, the same with my Wixey protractor. Large button cell batteries that don't last near as long.
Glad I was one of their "testers"  Roll Eyes
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