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Title: need help with thickness sled to make tapered lams.
Post by: wyatts daddy on March 08, 2007, 05:57:00 PM
Hi everyone. I'm looking to make my own lams. Crooked stic told me to ask you guys for pictures and instructions on making a sled for a belt sander to make the taper in the lams. I'm looking for a .002 per ince taper. Thx
Bill
Title: Re: need help with thickness sled to make tapered lams.
Post by: wyatts daddy on March 09, 2007, 02:25:00 AM
Anybody?
Title: Re: need help with thickness sled to make tapered lams.
Post by: ethan on March 09, 2007, 04:12:00 AM
What kind of belt sander are you using?  A thickness sander, or horizontal sander?  The easiest way is probably to get a lam with the taper you want to use and us it as a template for your sled.
Title: Re: need help with thickness sled to make tapered lams.
Post by: ChuckC on March 09, 2007, 08:49:00 AM
I just ended up purchasing some lams from Binghams.  .001, and .002.  so I made sleds that are .001, .002 and .003, plus parallel.  It was worth the cost of the purchase (not all that much).
Chuckc
Title: Re: need help with thickness sled to make tapered lams.
Post by: V-Archer on March 09, 2007, 09:10:00 AM
Hi,

I use an oscillating spindle sander set-up (graphical picture #1) or my belt sander set-up (picture #2)
Easy to make with some scrap material.

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l118/V-Archer/sanderfortapers.jpg)


This is my belt sander set-up, works great.

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l118/V-Archer/tapertool1.jpg)
Title: Re: need help with thickness sled to make tapered lams.
Post by: wyatts daddy on March 09, 2007, 09:55:00 AM
v-archer thx you sooooooooooo much. I like the drum sander version. I'm not sure of what you are using on the belt sander. Makes perfect since.
Bill
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