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Ed Milne
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The powerfeed is a good idea, but I think a shaper would be a better device to use with the powerfeed, if you have one available to you. You could sandwich the veneer as before, cut it to just over rough size on the saw, and then clean up the edges using the powerfeed and a straight cutter in the shaper. A jointer with sharp blades will also give a nice edge to a sandwich. I would be hesistant to try climb cutting on the table saw. A suggestion I might make with the table saw is to raise the blade up high - this will increase the shearing action of the teeth, particularly with a steep tooth bevel. It would seem that having the teeth just penetrating the top layer of MDF would yield more of a tearing action than a cut.: Hi Guys,: My shopmate and I do a lot of veneer work. As professionals we're always looking for ways to speed up our processing. As : such, we've largely given up jointing veneer with a router. Since we can't afford a guillotine, we use a trick taught to us by : Dakota Jackson to use the table saw. We sandwich a stack of leaves between two pieces of MDF and then using a Hi-AT blade : cut though the stack - the blade just barely going into the top piece of MDF. (NOTE: this is a professional cut and should not : be attempted by hobbyists.) We get good results: certainly good enough for backer veneer and with easy veneers good : enough for the public face as well. But with difficult veneers the results are problematic and unpredictable. So my thought : was this: would I get better results if I used a powerfeed to put the stack through the table saw. I'd certainly get better : pressure over the cutting point. And better yet, how about if I climb cut the stack by reversing the powerfeed? There would : be nothing behind the tooth to tearout. Does anyone have any experience with this technique?: As I said earlier: this is not something people should try. What I'm looking for is to find out if this is an established : professional technique or not.: Thanks for your input, : : Kim Carleton Graves: Carleton Woodworking
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