Making Beveled Back Reinforcement Strips

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Making Beveled Back Reinforcement Strips

Post by Allen » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:50 pm

I've always made back strips with a block plane, sanding block, and anything else that looked like it might do the job. They always were too much work for average results in my case.

I'm finding all kinds of new uses for my table saw, and this little jig took about 5 minutes to make. It's just a couple of 45 ° slots cut into a board to fit your reinforcement strip. Make the slot deep enough that your strip is going to be almost fully supported.

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Load up your strips and then run them through the drum sander, or if you don't have one, then a hard sanding block will do the trip, but not as much fun. :lol:

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Flip them over and run through the drum sander again, A few minutes work and you have your accurately mitered back reinforcement strips.

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Hope you find this useful.
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Post by Craig » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:30 pm

Allen , that's brilliant !

Many thanks for that .
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Post by Alfred J » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:42 pm

Much appreciated 8)
You have just solved a problem for me.

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Post by Kim » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:21 am

Well done Allen, very clever mate 8)


Cheers

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Post by hilo_kawika » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:28 am

Very nice Allen. You've proven the old adage that it's very difficult to make something simple!

How many luthiers does it take to change a light bulb? Only one - but he has to make a jig first... :)
How to become a millionaire? Start with $2 million and become a luthier...

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