Craig Mascolo
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Joined: 2010-01-13
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I am going to answer my own question. I thank everyone for their input and replies, but the key point to my question has not really been addressed. That is,jointing LONG edges of veneer. Through trials in my shop with this material, the only way to get clean edges and truly tight joints for taping up such long lengths, is to construct a custom shooting board to shoot the edges with a hand plane. I use a Lie Nielsen #62 low angle jack plane for this work, as it can be set for a very fine cut and the angle of attack is delicate enough to shear the edges of the veneer without tearout. Using walnut this becomes a major consideration. It's my plane of choice for shooting very thin, all-wood veneers. So to handle the long sections (over 96" in length) the long shooting board is the answer. In this case I made one 108" long. Forget using any type of saw, Festool or other, and forget the router along a straightedge. With squirrely veneer having long grain daylight along the edges, power tools of any kind will give you headaches on tearout and material waste. Shooting with a good sharp handplane is the only way to go for control and optimum results. You just need to make that shooting board long enough to accommodate your long material.
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