Featheredge

[Tippin Alaybye]

Looking to cut some featheredge panels on my woodlander.

Any tips?

I was thinking once the section is square just putting a suitably thick batten on one edge to give the angle??

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Tippin Alaybye said:

 

Looking to cut some featheredge panels on my woodlander.

Any tips?

I was thinking once the section is square just putting a suitably thick batten on one edge to give the angle??

 

Ive been looking at this as well lately as Ive been asked if I could supply 300 lengths of featheredge. Really need to make a jig like the one in the link below. 

 

 

[spuddog0507]

That jig in the video is very simular to what a mate of mine made but his was not operated with hydraulics it was with 2 pieces of threaded bar and a nut gun, worked ok but was slow as he had to go and either slacken it off or tighten it up every cut, hence now he just cuts 125 x 10 mm boards for his fencing,

[gobbypunk]

Woodland Mills sell a jig for their mills but its like £500

[Khriss]

1 hour ago, gobbypunk said:

Woodland Mills sell a jig for their mills but its like £500

Thats a lot of wetherfegde boards from Jewsons.... Which reminds me  😑 K

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, gobbypunk said:

Woodland Mills sell a jig for their mills but its like £500

Thats cheap as chips! I might get that myself. 

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, spuddog0507 said:

That jig in the video is very simular to what a mate of mine made but his was not operated with hydraulics it was with 2 pieces of threaded bar and a nut gun, worked ok but was slow as he had to go and either slacken it off or tighten it up every cut, hence now he just cuts 125 x 10 mm boards for his fencing,

If you're just needing the same degree of angle then surely there is a simple method of clicking up and down from that angle? 

[trigger_andy]

It looks like a cracking bit of kit and for only £500 it seems like a steal!

 

Lap Siding Attachment | Woodland Mills USA

WOODLANDMILLS.COM

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[Tippin Alaybye]

any Heath Robinson ideas that doesnt involve 500 notes? ive just spent nearly a grand on accessories. Any advances on my batten idea?

BTW, i just looked up Heath Robinson. he did the opposite to how we use his name. Elaborate contraptions to do a simple task.

the same Wikipedia page said "throwing money at a problem was to Trigger it"

Edited April 25, 2021 by Tippin Alaybye

[trigger_andy]

26 minutes ago, Tippin Alaybye said:

any Heath Robinson ideas that doesnt involve 500 notes? ive just spent nearly a grand on accessories. Any advances on my batten idea?

BTW, i just looked up Heath Robinson. he did the opposite to how we use his name. Elaborate contraptions to do a simple task.

the same Wikipedia page said "throwing money at a problem was to Trigger it"

You need to speculate to accumulate.

 

Can you imagine how slow it would lifting the Cant every second pass to lift the Cant off and put a batten down then replace the Cant. Not to mention buggering your back. For the sake of an extra £500 for what looks like a very effective system verses a lifetime of a buggered back you'll have wished you spend the £500. 

 

Plus the money to be made off of featheredge is quite substantial, the initial outlay of £500 verses the production rate of the Woodlands kit would see it pay itself on the first or second order. 

 

And coming from a man thats just spunked a bag of sand on shiny new toys when I bought the same Grinder with an outlay of about £200 and most of its brand new now. You can edit Wiki yourself, change the name to your own, you deserve it.