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> You'd be a true trooper if you hand bead AND coved all of the strips
> necessary for one of my canoes!!!! let's see.... about 84 strips x 18' for
> the cove and the same for the bead equals 3024 feet. You would have to go
> over the strips at least 6 or 8 times for a grand total of roughly 24000
> feet which is about 4 miles of scraping and planing. Borrow a router and
> buy the bits for 39.95, about an hour or so and your done. I do think
> however that the tool is an excellent idea for furniture and such. Often
> times I find the router just to obnoxious. The detail, precision, and
> rewards of hand machining are well worth the extra few minutes to me....
> BUT to hand machine this many feet of lumber would put far too many chest
> hairs on me :-) Doug
Seems to me that this would be a good tool for all thos custom strips that have to be done by hand when working on a patterned deck. Haven't done a stripper yet, but I've read about custom fitting small strips on fancy decks.
Mike
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Guillemot Kayak - High
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