Help: Need to make....

RossR · Post by **RossR** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:03 pm

Ok I need to make a 60 degree cut into a board about 5 feet long. Not very deep. I am thinking The best solution is to buy a 60 degree router bit and chuck it into the shaper and run the board down it? Any other thoughts or easier ways perhaps?? This is in the center of the board. I plan on making some bamboo fly rods this winter and I need to make a rough planing form out of wood with a 60 degree cut in it so I can plane down the bamboo into eqilateral triangles. I have been thinking about this for about a week and it just dawned on me that you folks might have some good insight. Thanks

Ross

mystry_tour · Post by **mystry_tour** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:12 pm

Hey Ross
Do you have a table saw. Do a stright cut in the middle. then turn your saw blade to 30 degrees and make a cut to your first cut, turn it 180 degrees and make your 3rd cut and you should have a 60 degree included V-cut
Reg
i can't remember if you had a table saw or not

RossR · Post by **RossR** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:56 pm

Reg,

Nope that is one of the things I plan to add later on. I have a radial arm saw delta that has a table built around its 9 feet in each direction...hmm wonder if I can make that work

Ross

mystry_tour · Post by **mystry_tour** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:20 pm

mmmmmmmmm I would try it if the fence is good and stright AND you didn't have to pull the saw out too far from its base. Being close in will keep it sturdy. I have done some ripping on a RAS and it worked pretty well. Its the 30 degree that I wonder about. Do you hace a guage to set the blade at multable angles
Reg

RossR · Post by **RossR** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:46 am

Yep I have a gage to set it and I have a fence that is pretty striaght. Hmm got to think on this some. Ross

mystry_tour · Post by **mystry_tour** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:56 am

orrrrrr you could always get the router bit you were talking about if you think that would be a better option for you....
Reg

nektai · Post by **nektai** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:25 am

RossR,

I am not a fan of the radial arm saw for this operation. Stick to cross cutting with it and leave this type of operation for a table saw ,router or circular saw.

Here is how i would do it with a circular saw- Tilt the blade to 30 deg and to the desired depth. Measure from the blade to the outside of the saws base. Clamp a straight edge to your work and run the saws base against it. I like this system better than using one of those circular saw rip fences as they will not result in as straight a cut. Then repeat the set up for the other side of the 60 deg cut. You may want to cut a sample so that you can take careful note of the measurements needed for the final set up.

RossR · Post by **RossR** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:44 am

Thanks for the thoughts guys I used the circular saw method. Worked just fine!! Guess I need to buy a table saw <grin>

Ross

RossR · Post by **RossR** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:17 pm

Well it dawns on me that I must be a little slow.....My jointer was sitting there quietly just asking to do this project....set the fence so it will cut the 30 degrees. I tried it last night and yep worked fine..oh well the saw method worked too

Ross

mystry_tour · Post by **mystry_tour** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:56 pm

laughing.....its hard to remember when your up to your butt in alligators that your main objective was to drain the pool....funny how we think sometiems Ross
Reg

RossR · Post by **RossR** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:41 pm

How True!! I tend to complicate things first before I find the easy solution.!!!!

Ross