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So I turned my attention back to my kitchen project.
I've had the poplar for over a year planed down to 3/4". It was all still flat. I entered all the dimensions into Cutlist and ripped everything down to width. Crosscut everything to length using my TS and Incra miter gauge and carefully grouped everything into separate piles for the stiles and rails. I'm making 15 doors so 60 parts total. My bottom rail is 3" while the top rail and stiles are 2 1/4".
Plowed a 1/4" wide, 1/2" deep groove down the center edge of each meticulously prepared board. I'm making stub tenon doors.
Then I setup to cut the tenons. Rather than burying part of my dado stack into a sacrificial fence, I clamped a spacer block to my TS fence and registered off of that block.
Everything was dialed in and I started cutting. So towards the end of my stack of 30 rails, I notice the shoulders on the opposing faces aren't always even. What the???? When I slip the tenon into the groove, the tenon bottoms out (as it should), but sometimes there's a gap between the shoulder of the rail and the stile on one or both sides--between 1/32" and 1/16".
The spacer block didn't move. The fence was clamped down.
I had clamped my block towards the front of the fence--unnecessarily far from the blade. Although I was holding the wood to the miter gauge fence face (melamine), I was doing it at a slight angle. With that far distance to travel, sometimes the wood would slip enough that I'd take too much off. If I had just spray glued sandpaper to the face (which I'm going to go do), it probably wouldn't have slipped.
I guess it didn't happen when I did the initial crosscut because I wasn't applying as much pressure to the board.
Anyway, it seems like nearly every door was affected. I am going to be gluing in the MDF panel so I'm not worried about door strength. I'm also going to be painting these doors except now I have to shim the gaps with veneer slivers or wood putty. PITA!
I've had the poplar for over a year planed down to 3/4". It was all still flat. I entered all the dimensions into Cutlist and ripped everything down to width. Crosscut everything to length using my TS and Incra miter gauge and carefully grouped everything into separate piles for the stiles and rails. I'm making 15 doors so 60 parts total. My bottom rail is 3" while the top rail and stiles are 2 1/4".
Plowed a 1/4" wide, 1/2" deep groove down the center edge of each meticulously prepared board. I'm making stub tenon doors.
Then I setup to cut the tenons. Rather than burying part of my dado stack into a sacrificial fence, I clamped a spacer block to my TS fence and registered off of that block.
Everything was dialed in and I started cutting. So towards the end of my stack of 30 rails, I notice the shoulders on the opposing faces aren't always even. What the???? When I slip the tenon into the groove, the tenon bottoms out (as it should), but sometimes there's a gap between the shoulder of the rail and the stile on one or both sides--between 1/32" and 1/16".
The spacer block didn't move. The fence was clamped down.
I had clamped my block towards the front of the fence--unnecessarily far from the blade. Although I was holding the wood to the miter gauge fence face (melamine), I was doing it at a slight angle. With that far distance to travel, sometimes the wood would slip enough that I'd take too much off. If I had just spray glued sandpaper to the face (which I'm going to go do), it probably wouldn't have slipped.
I guess it didn't happen when I did the initial crosscut because I wasn't applying as much pressure to the board.
Anyway, it seems like nearly every door was affected. I am going to be gluing in the MDF panel so I'm not worried about door strength. I'm also going to be painting these doors except now I have to shim the gaps with veneer slivers or wood putty. PITA!
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